unprevisible

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English

Etymology

From un- +‎ previsible.

Adjective

unprevisible (comparative more unprevisible, superlative most unprevisible)

  1. (very rare) Not previsible; unforeseeable, unpredictable.
    Synonym: imprevisible
    • 1911, J W Mackail, “The Progress of Poetry”, in Lectures on Poetry, London : Longmans, Green and Co., page 330:
      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.
    • 1932, Samuel Beckett, Dream of Fair to Middling Women, London, Paris: Calder Publications, published 1993, →ISBN, page 139:
      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.
      Intentionally nonsensical.

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