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foretellable

adj
/foːˈtɛɫəbl̩/UK

Etymology

From foretell + -able.

  1. inherited from foretellen
  2. suffixed as foretellable — “foretell + able”

Definitions

  1. Able to be foretold

    Able to be foretold; predictable.

    • It was the one positively predictable thing, foretellable for ten or for ten thousand years by a simple mathematical calculation.
    • I remember how my entire life seemed to me to be foretellable, if only I could somehow decipher that cycle.
    • Quickly it taught him to prophesy, to leap over knowledge and wisdom straight into the fire and the glamor of things foretellable.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for foretellable. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA