impredictable

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adjective

Unpredictable; that cannot be predicted.

Scrabble 22

Meanings

adjectiveimpredictable (comparative more impredictable, superlative most impredictable)

comparative more impredictable · superlative most impredictable

  1. Unpredictable; that cannot be predicted.

    But one must not be ill-humoured with our sensations. They have their own impredictable wealth.

    1894, Josiah Royce, “The External World”, in The Philosophical Review, volume III, page 526
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    [T]he annihilation of the world and consequent extermination of the human species, inevitable but impredictable.

    1922 February 2, James Joyce, “[Episode 17: Ithaca]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC, part III [Nostos], page 632

    “Mankind” sane practical men will entirely leave to its own devices, and the hidden chances of a remote and impredictable future.

    1971, Nathaniel Nathan, Economic Heresies, page 217

Origin

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Chicago

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