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imprevisible

imprevisible adjective: unforeseeable.

Adjective

imprevisible (comparative more imprevisible, superlative most imprevisible)

  1. (rare) unforeseeable
    • And the name or the phrase once started on its career is beyond control or recall ; and what it may grow into is imprevisible.1901, J. Herbert Williams, “Development”, in W. Spooner, editor, The Dublin Review, volume 128, London: The Westminster Press, page 292
    • […] there intervene periods of rest or repose, during which no food is taken, unless it be every now and then from time to time an occasional snack, quick drink or light collation, rendered if not indispensable at least welcome by an unforeseen acceleration of the metabolic exchanges due to...1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, [Paris]: Olympia Press, →OCLC

Antonyms of imprevisible

Forms of imprevisible

comparativemore imprevisible
superlativemost imprevisible

Words formed from imprevisible

Questions about imprevisible

What does imprevisible mean?
Imprevisible means unforeseeable.
What part of speech is imprevisible?
Imprevisible is an adjective.

Words near imprevisible in the dictionary

  1. imprested
  2. impresting
  3. imprests
  4. impreventable
  5. imprevisibility
  6. imprevisible
  7. imprimantur
  8. imprimatur
  9. imprimatura
  10. imprimaturs
  11. imprime

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