foretellable
adjUK [foːˈtɛɫəbl̩]
Etymology From foretell + -able.
1
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.1915, Arthur Cheney Train, The Man who Rocked the Earth, page 22:
- I remember how my entire life seemed to me to be foretellable, if only I could somehow decipher that cycle.1994, Kenzaburō Ōe, The Pinch Runner Memorandum, page 68:
1 more example
- Quickly it taught him to prophesy, to leap over knowledge and wisdom straight into the fire and the glamor of things foretellable.2012, Michael Williams, chapter X, in Galen Beknighted: Heroes - Book 6:
- Derived terms
- unforetellable
- Related terms
- foreseeable