foretellable

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English

Etymology

foretell +‎ -able

Pronunciation

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Adjective

foretellable (comparative more foretellable, superlative most foretellable)

  1. Able to be foretold; predictable.
    • 1915, Arthur Cheney Train, The Man who Rocked the Earth, page 22:
      It was the one positively predictable thing, foretellable for ten or for ten thousand years by a simple mathematical calculation.
    • 1994, Kenzaburō Ōe, The Pinch Runner Memorandum, page 68:
      I remember how my entire life seemed to me to be foretellable, if only I could somehow decipher that cycle.
    • 2012, Michael Williams, chapter X, in Galen Beknighted: Heroes - Book 6:
      Quickly it taught him to prophesy, to leap over knowledge and wisdom straight into the fire and the glamor of things foretellable.
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