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English
Etymology
From predict + -able.
Pronunciation
Adjective
predictable (comparative more predictable, superlative most predictable)
- Able to be predicted.
a predictable mathematical pattern
a boring film with a predictable ending
2008, Vanity Fair, numbers 579-580, page 329:Despite the predictable squalling on some of the Twilight fanblogs, the two leads are impeccably cast.
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Translations
able to be predicted
- Armenian: կանխատեսելի (kanxateseli)
- Azerbaijani: proqnozlaşdırıla bilən
- Belarusian: прадказа́льны (pradkazálʹny)
- Bulgarian: предсказуем (predskazuem)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 可預見的 / 可预见的 (kě yùjiàn de), 可預言的 / 可预言的 (kě yùyán de), 意料之中 (yìliào zhī zhōng)
- Czech: předvídatelný (cs)
- Dutch: voorspelbaar (nl)
- Finnish: ennustettava, ennalta arvattava
- French: prédictible (fr), prévisible (fr)
- Galician: previsible (gl)
- Georgian: მოსალოდნელი (mosalodneli), წინასწარგანჭვრეტადი (c̣inasc̣arganč̣vreṭadi)
- German: vorhersagbar, prädiktabel (de)
- Greek: προβλέψιμος (el) (provlépsimos)
- Hungarian: kiszámítható (hu), megjósolható (hu)
- Irish: intuartha
- Italian: prevedibile (it)
- Japanese: 先が見える (saki ga mieru), 予測できる (ja) (yosoku dekiru), 起こりうる (okoriuru)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: forutsigbar, forutsigelig
- Nynorsk: føreseieleg
- Polish: przewidywalny (pl), przepowiadalny
- Portuguese: previsível (pt)
- Romanian: predictibil, anticipabil, previzibil (ro)
- Russian: предсказу́емый (ru) (predskazújemyj)
- Spanish: predecible (es), predictible, previsible
- Swedish: förutsägbar (sv)
- Turkish: öngörülebilir
- Ukrainian: передба́чуваний (peredbáčuvanyj)
- Welsh: rhagweladwy (cy)
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Noun
predictable (plural predictables)
- (uncommon) A predictable thing.