unprevisible

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adjective

Not previsible; unforeseeable, unpredictable.

Scrabble 19

Meanings

adjectiveunprevisible (comparative more unprevisible, superlative most unprevisible)

comparative more unprevisible · superlative most unprevisible

  1. rareNot previsible; unforeseeable, unpredictable.

    For the flowering and fruitage, for the actual creation of a new and great poetry, it awaits, as it did before Homer, before Virgil, before Milton, the incalculable and unprevisible individual genius.

    1911, J[ohn] W[illiam] Mackail, “The Progress of Poetry”, in Lectures on Poetry, London […]: Longmans, Green and Co., page 330
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    And I think of the ultimately unprevisible atom threatening to come asunder, the left wing of the atom plotting without ceasing to spit in the eye of the physical statistician and commit a most copious offence of nuisance on his cenotaphs of indivisibility.

    1932, Samuel Beckett, Dream of Fair to Middling Women, London; Paris: Calder Publications, published 1993, →ISBN, page 139

    Synonyms: imprevisible

Synonyms & antonyms

adjectiveNot previsible; unforeseeable, unpredictable.

Origin

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