predictable

Able to be predicted.

Adjective

  1. Able to be predicted.
    • a predictable mathematical pattern
    • a boring film with a predictable ending
    • Despite the predictable squalling on some of the Twilight fanblogs, the two leads are impeccably cast. - 2008, Vanity Fair, numbers 579-580, page 329:

Origin

Etymology tree English predict Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis Proto-Italic *-ðlis Latin -bilis Latin -ābilis Old French -ablebor. Middle English -able English -able English predictable From predict + -able.

Antonyms

non-predictable nonpredictable unpredictable

Related

predict prediction predictor expected possible

Derived

impredictable predictability predictableness predictably semipredictable ultrapredictable

Noun

  1. A predictable thing.

Forms

predictables