| 单词 | predictable |
| 释义 | predictable (once / 1265 pages) adj If you can predict it, I predict you'll call it predictable. In other words, anything that you can see or know before it happens is predictable. When she got out the fine china early in Act I, you could just tell the stuff would be smashed in Act III. It was all too predictable. Given the facts of their lives, the end of their relationship was predictable: he was married, and so was she, but not to each other. The roots of the word are fun to analyze: pre- means "before," dict means "to say," and able means, well, "able." Put them together, and you'll see that predictable means "able to be said before (it happens)" or, simply, something you know of before it happens. WORD FAMILYpredictable: predictability, predictably, unpredictable+/predict: predictable, predicted, predicting, prediction, predictive, predictor, predicts/predictability: predictabilities/predicted: unpredicted/prediction: predictions/predictive: predictively, unpredictive/predictor: predictors/unpredictability: unpredictabilities/unpredictable: unpredictability, unpredictably USAGE EXAMPLESHarambe's death touched off a heated - if predictable - debate about zoo welfare standards and whether lethal force was necessary. BBC(Dec 31, 2016) “They all responded in a predictable direction, but with not as great a magnitude,” said Dr. Griffin. New York Times(Dec 29, 2016) They’re as predictable as a 3 a.m. tweet from Trump Tower. Washington Post(Dec 27, 2016) adj capable of being foretold Syn|Ant certain, sure certain to occur; destined or inevitable foreseeablecapable of being anticipated inevitableinvariably occurring or appearing unpredictable not capable of being foretold uncertainnot certain to occur; not inevitable aleatorydependent on chance capricious, freakishchangeable episodic, occasionaloccurring or appearing at usually irregular intervals unforeseeableincapable of being anticipated |
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