prognosticator

Definition

One who prognosticates or makes predictions; one who forecasts or guesses.

Etymology

From prognosticate + -or.

Example Sentences

• "Plenty of prognosticators try to forecast the ups and downs of the market."
• "Thou art wearied in the multitude of thy counsels: let now the astrologers, the starre-gazers, the monethly prognosticators stand vp, and saue thee from these things that shall come vpon thee."
• "When the staccato, Neptunes-ian single “Boyfriend” was released in March, musical prognosticators were quick to peg the album it portended, Believe, as Justin Bieber’s Justified, a grown-and-sexy, R&B-centric departure that evolved millennial teenybopper Justin Timberlake into one of the unifying pop-music figures of the aughts."