foretellable

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UK[foːˈtɛɫəbl̩]

adjective

Able to be foretold; predictable.

Scrabble 17

Meanings

adjectiveforetellable (comparative more foretellable, superlative most foretellable)

comparative more foretellable · superlative most foretellable

  1. Able to be foretold; predictable.

    I remember how my entire life seemed to me to be foretellable, if only I could somehow decipher that cycle.

    1994, Kenzaburō Ōe, The Pinch Runner Memorandum, page 68
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    It was the one positively predictable thing, foretellable for ten or for ten thousand years by a simple mathematical calculation.

    1915, Arthur Cheney Train, The Man who Rocked the Earth, page 22

    Quickly it taught him to prophesy, to leap over knowledge and wisdom straight into the fire and the glamor of things foretellable.

    2012, Michael Williams, chapter X, in Galen Beknighted: Heroes - Book 6

Origin

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