English

Adjective

foretellable ‎(comparative more foretellable, superlative most foretellable)

1. Able to be foretold; predictable.
   • 1915, Arthur Cheney Train, The Man who Rocked the Earth, page 22:

     It was the one positively predictable thing, foretellable for ten or for ten thousand years by a simple mathematical calculation.

   • 1994, Kenzaburō Ōe, The Pinch Runner Memorandum, page 68:

     I remember how my entire life seemed to me to be foretellable, if only I could somehow decipher that cycle.

   • 2012, Michael Williams, Galen Beknighted: Heroes - Book 6, Chapter X:

     Quickly it taught him to prophesy, to leap over knowledge and wisdom straight into the fire and the glamor of things foretellable.

Related terms

• foreseeable