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predictory

predictory adjective: serving to predict; predictive.

Adjective

predictory (comparative more predictory, superlative most predictory)

  1. Serving to predict; predictive.
    • his font name then given him, as predictory of those victories he afterwards gota. 1662 (date written), Thomas Fuller, The History of the Worthies of England, London: […] J[ohn] G[rismond,] W[illiam] L[eybourne] and W[illiam] G[odbid], published 1662, →OCLC

Forms of predictory

comparativemore predictory
superlativemost predictory

Origin of predictory

From predict + -ory.

Questions about predictory

What does predictory mean?
Predictory means serving to predict; predictive.
What part of speech is predictory?
Predictory is an adjective.

Words near predictory in the dictionary

  1. predictivity
  2. predictor
  3. predictor variable
  4. predictor variables
  5. predictors
  6. predictory
  7. predictress
  8. predictresses
  9. predicts
  10. prediet
  11. predietary

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