predictably

C2+ Topic:Describing Qualities

US /prɪˈdɪktəbli/ UK /prɪˈdɪktəbli/ See IPA manual

Meanings

1

adv
in a way that was expected or could be foreseen

Predictably, the meeting ran an hour over schedule.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

1 adv · in a way that was expected... expectedlyforeseeablyinevitably reliablyunsurprisingly

Opposites

unpredictablyunexpectedly surprisingly

Word family

Related forms predict predictable prediction

Etymology

From predictable + -ly, ultimately from Latin praedicere ('to foretell'), from prae- ('before') + dicere ('to say').

praedicere Latin dicere Latin

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Topics

Describing Qualities Word Formation & Derivatives

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# predictably

**Type:** Word
**Level:** C2+
**Part of speech:** adv
**IPA (US):** /prɪˈdɪktəbli/
**IPA (UK):** /prɪˈdɪktəbli/

## Meanings
1. in a way that was expected or could be foreseen

## Examples
- Predictably, the meeting ran an hour over schedule.

## Synonyms
- expectedly
- foreseeably
- inevitably
- reliably
- unsurprisingly

## Antonyms
- unpredictably
- unexpectedly
- surprisingly

## Related Forms
- predict
- predictable
- prediction

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: praedicere
- Root: dicere

## Etymology
From predictable + -ly, ultimately from Latin praedicere ('to foretell'), from prae- ('before') + dicere ('to say').

## AI Etymology
Predictably is from predictable + -ly, ultimately from Latin praedicere ('to foretell'), from prae- ('before') + dicere ('to say'). Important recorded forms include praedicere (Latin) and dicere (Latin). Morphologically, the word preserves a built structure whose named elements carry the historical sense into English. The modern sense remains close to that composition, with the parts narrowing into a single lexical item. In current use it covers in a way that was expected or could be foreseen. The wider family includes related words such as predict, predictable, and prediction.

## Topics
- Describing Qualities
- Word Formation & Derivatives

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