unprevisible
unprevisible adjective: not previsible; unforeseeable, unpredictable.
Adjective
unprevisible (comparative more unprevisible, superlative most unprevisible)
- Not previsible; unforeseeable, unpredictable.
- For the flowering and fruitage, for the actual creation of a new and great poetry, it awaits, as it did before Homer, before Virgil, before Milton, the incalculable and unprevisible individual genius.1911, J[ohn] W[illiam] Mackail, “The Progress of Poetry”, in Lectures on Poetry, London […]: Longmans, Green and Co., page 330
- And I think of the ultimately unprevisible atom threatening to come asunder, the left wing of the atom plotting without ceasing to spit in the eye of the physical statistician and commit a most copious offence of nuisance on his cenotaphs of indivisibility.1932, Samuel Beckett, Dream of Fair to Middling Women, London; Paris: Calder Publications, published 1993, →ISBN, page 139
- Synonyms:
- imprevisible
Synonyms of unprevisible
Forms of unprevisible
| comparative | more unprevisible |
|---|---|
| superlative | most unprevisible |
Origin of unprevisible
From un- + previsible.
Words formed from unprevisible
Questions about unprevisible
- What does unprevisible mean?
- Unprevisible means not previsible; unforeseeable, unpredictable.
- What part of speech is unprevisible?
- Unprevisible is an adjective.
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