different between predict vs futurist

English

Alternative forms

• prædict (archaic)

Etymology

Early 17th century, from Latin praed?c? (“to mention beforehand”) (perfect passive participle praedictus), from prae- (“before”) + d?c? (“to say”). Equivalent to Germanic forespeak, foretell, and foresay.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p???d?kt/
• Rhymes: -?kt

Verb

predict (third-person singular simple present predicts, present participle predicting, simple past and past participle predicted)

1. (transitive) To make a prediction: to forecast, foretell, or estimate a future event on the basis of knowledge and reasoning; to prophesy a future event on the basis of mystical knowledge or power.
   • 1590, E. Daunce, A Briefe Discourse on the Spanish State, 40

     After he had renounced his fathers bishoprick of Valentia in Spaine... and to attaine by degrees the Maiesty of Cesar, was created Duke of that place, gaue for his poesie, Aut Cesar, aut nihil. which being not fauoured from the heauens, had presently the euent the same predicted.

   • 2000, J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, xiii.

     Professor Trelawney kept predicting Harry’s death, which he found extremely annoying.

   • 2012, Jeremy Bernstein, "A Palette of Particles" in American Scientist, Vol. 100, No. 2, p. 146

     The physics of elementary particles in the 20th century was distinguished by the observation of particles whose existence had been predicted by theorists sometimes decades earlier.

2. (transitive, of theories, laws, etc.) To imply.
   • 1886, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 177. 338

     It is interesting to see how clearly theory predicts the difference between the ascending and descending curves of a dynamo.

   • 1996 June 3, Geoffrey Cowley. The biology of beauty, Newsweek

     For both men and women, greater symmetry predicted a larger number of past sex partners.

3. (intransitive) To make predictions.
   • 1652, J. Gaule, ???-?????? the mag-astro-mancer, 196

     The devil can both predict and make predictors.

4. (transitive, military, rare) To direct a ranged weapon against a target by means of a predictor.
   • 1943, L. Cheshire, Bomber Pilot, iii. 57

     They're predicting us now; looks like a barrage.

Synonyms

• foretell, forespell, forespeak, halsen

Antonyms

• retrodict

Related terms

Translations

Noun

predict (plural predicts)

1. (obsolete) A prediction.
   • 1609, William Shakespeare, Sonnet 14:

     Or say with Princes if it shall go well, / By oft predict that I in heaven find.

Further reading

• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “predict”, in Online Etymology Dictionary

Middle French

Verb

predict

1. past participle of predire

English

Etymology

future +? -ist

Noun

futurist (plural futurists)

1. (art) An adherent to the principles of the artistic movement of futurism.
2. One who studies and predicts possible futures.

   Synonym: futurologist

Derived terms

• Afrofuturist

Translations

Adjective

futurist (comparative more futurist, superlative most futurist)

1. In the style of futurism.

   Synonym: futuristic

   • 2016, Eduardo Ledesma, Radical Poetry: Aesthetics, Politics, Technology, and the Ibero-American Avant-Gardes, 1900-2015, SUNY Press (?ISBN), page 126:

     Salvat took to heart what Marinetti was provocatively clamoring: “Futurist poetry, having already destroyed traditional metrics and created free verse, now destroys the Latin period and its syntax. Futurist poetry is a spontaneous uninterrupted flow of analogies, each synthesized in an essential noun”.

Related terms

• futurism
• futuristic

Translations

Further reading

• futurist on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• futurism (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Romanian

Etymology

From French futuriste or Italian futurista.

Noun

futurist m (plural futuri?ti)

1. futurist

Declension

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• (Bosnia, Serbia): futùrista

Etymology

From fùt?r.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fut?rist/
• Hyphenation: fu?tu?rist

Noun

futùrist m (Cyrillic spelling ?????????)

1. futurist

Declension

References

• “futurist” in Hrvatski jezi?ni portal