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predictable
[ pri-dik-tuh-buhl ]
adjective
- able to be foretold or declared in advance:
New technology allows predictable weather forecasting.
- expected, especially on the basis of previous or known behavior:
His complaints are so predictable.
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Other Words From
- pre·dicta·bly adverb
- nonpre·dicta·ble adjective
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Word History and Origins
Origin of predictable1
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Example Sentences
Three were predictable: The Italians and French were, of course, wine imbibers and the Germans were deep in the beer cellar.
Team Christie has greeted the committee's news with somewhat predictable gloating.
There were exceptions, as our instructor, Kimberlee Sue Moran, pointed out, but criminals behaved in mostly predictable ways.
A predictable, inflation-adjusted minimum wage would make business planning easier.
Following an all too predictable cycle of the hyperactive 21st century, focus on the explosion was ephemeral.
Literally there wasn't a man to whom he could turn whose answer and advice weren't as predictable as useless.
So very predictable, he mused fingering the face of his big, green lettered clock.
It was his firm desire to bring some chutzpah into the all too predictable and dreary cuisine on this part of the continent.
This kind of advertising had its predictable response: publication of the new Abridgment was postponed indefinitely.
The first escape was a blind run toward a predictable objective; all right, that was a danger to be avoided.
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