misprognosticate

English

Etymology

mis- +‎ prognosticate

Verb

misprognosticate (third-person singular simple present misprognosticates, present participle misprognosticating, simple past and past participle misprognosticated)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To make an incorrect prediction.
   • 1976 Winter, Janet Koffler O'Dea, “Israel With and Without Religion: An Appreciation of Kaufmann's" Golah ve-Nekhar”, in Judaism, volume 25, number 1:

     […] were Victims of a basic confusion between religion and nationalism which led them to misinterpret past Jewish history, to misunderstand present Jewish needs, and to misprognosticate […]

   • 1977, Ugo Fisch, Facial Nerve Surgery, page 141:

     On the other hand, if you use a lower grade of stimulation (i.E. 1% citric acid) and the same critical value for choosing treatment or not, you will still misprognosticate 2 patients but treat no fewer than 6 patients ( i.e. almost 16 % ) unnecessarily, and wrongly believe that you have found a very good kind of treatment, as can be seen in Fig. 7.

   • 1999, U.S. News & World Report - Volume 126, page 36:

     Misprognosticating pundits — most famously ABC's Sam Donaldson, who declared days into the scandal: " This thing is not going to drag out ” —remain unbowed.

   • 2016 August 24, Denny Schlesinger, “Investment Analysis Clubs / Macro Economic Trends and Risks: Re: Coming Hyperinflation”, in The Motley Fool‎^[1], archived from the original on 16 September 2022:

     My point, which has been entirely lost or misplaced, is that no one can predict the future, not even I can, which is why I said: "I expected inflation with the post 2008 printing of money." Listening to wild voices in the wilderness made me misprognosticate the state of the economy.