Meanings
comparative more impredictable · superlative most impredictable
- 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 5262 more examples
[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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