Word.ws English Dictionary

predictively

predictively adverb: in the manner of something that attempts to or succeeds in predicting, anticipating or expecting.

Adverb

predictively (comparative more predictively, superlative most predictively)

  1. In the manner of something that attempts to or succeeds in predicting, anticipating or expecting.
    • The computer program predictively scheduled the number of employees we'd need each day of the year based on past workloads.

Forms of predictively

comparativemore predictively
superlativemost predictively

Origin of predictively

From predictive + -ly.

Questions about predictively

What does predictively mean?
Predictively means in the manner of something that attempts to or succeeds in predicting, anticipating or expecting.
What part of speech is predictively?
Predictively is an adverb.

Words near predictively in the dictionary

  1. predictive power
  2. predictive programming
  3. Predictive Shopping
  4. predictive text
  5. predictive texting
  6. predictively
  7. predictiveness
  8. predictives
  9. predictivities
  10. predictivity
  11. predictor

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: predictively (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “predictively.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/predictively. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.