predictable

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

English predict

Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom

Proto-Italic *-ðlom

Proto-Italic *-ðlis

Latin -bilis

Latin -ābilis

Old French -ablebor.

Middle English -able

English -able

English predictable

From predict + -able.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɹəˈdɪktəbləl/, /pɹiˈdɪktəbləl/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Adjective

predictable (not comparable)

1. Able to be predicted.

   a predictable mathematical pattern

   a boring film with a predictable ending

   • 2008, Vanity Fair, numbers 579-580, page 329:

     Despite the predictable squalling on some of the Twilight fanblogs, the two leads are impeccably cast.

Antonyms

• non-predictable, nonpredictable
• unpredictable

Derived terms

• impredictable
• predictability
• predictableness
• predictably
• semipredictable
• ultrapredictable

Related terms

• predict
• prediction
• predictor

Translations

able to be predicted

• Armenian: կանխատեսելի (kanxateseli)
• Azerbaijani: proqnozlaşdırıla bilən
• Belarusian: прадказа́льны (pradkazálʹny)
• Bulgarian: предсказуем (predskazuem)
• Catalan: predictible, predicible
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 可預見的 / 可预见的 (kě yùjiàn de), 可預言的 / 可预言的 (kě yùyán de), 意料之中 (yìliào zhī zhōng)

• Czech: předvídatelný (cs)
• Danish: forudsigelig
• Dutch: voorspelbaar (nl)
• Finnish: ennustettava (fi), ennalta arvattava
• French: prédictible (fr), prévisible (fr)
• Galician: previsible (gl)
• Georgian: მოსალოდნელი (mosalodneli), წინასწარგანჭვრეტადი (c̣inasc̣arganč̣vreṭadi)
• German: vorhersagbar, prädiktabel (de)
• Greek: προβλέψιμος (el) (provlépsimos)
• Hungarian: kiszámítható (hu), megjósolható (hu)
• Irish: intuartha
• Italian: prevedibile (it)
• Japanese: 先が見える (saki ga mieru), 予測できる (ja) (yosoku dekiru), 起こりうる (okoriuru)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: forutsigbar, forutsigelig

  Nynorsk: føreseieleg

• Polish: przewidywalny (pl), przepowiadalny
• Portuguese: previsível (pt), predizível
• Romanian: predictibil, anticipabil, previzibil (ro)
• Russian: предсказу́емый (ru) (predskazújemyj)
• Spanish: predecible (es), predictible (es), previsible (es)
• Swedish: förutsägbar (sv)
• Turkish: öngörülebilir
• Ukrainian: передба́чуваний (peredbáčuvanyj)
• Welsh: rhagweladwy (cy)

See also

• expected
• possible

Noun

predictable (plural predictables)

1. (uncommon) A predictable thing.