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# unpredictable

«unpredictable» in Mova's school dictionary: **impossible to know or say beforehand what will happen** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (unpredictable)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Unpredictable means impossible to know or say beforehand what will happen. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unpredictable/#m1)

2) An unpredictable person or animal behaves in ways you cannot guess, sometimes calm and sometimes not. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unpredictable/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In science and geography: unpredictable weather, earthquakes and volcanoes. In maths and probability: a dice roll is unpredictable, but over many rolls we can predict patterns. In safety: unknown dogs and wild animals can be unpredictable, so ask before stroking. In stories, an unpredictable character keeps readers guessing.

### examples

- British weather is unpredictable, so take a coat. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unpredictable/#x1)
- A dice roll is unpredictable. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unpredictable/#x2)
- Wild animals can be unpredictable – don't feed them. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unpredictable/#x3)
- The ending of the book was unpredictable. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unpredictable/#x4)
- Earthquakes are hard to predict, so they seem unpredictable. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unpredictable/#x5)
- My little sister's moods are unpredictable. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unpredictable/#x6)
- The match was unpredictable until the last minute. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unpredictable/#x7)

### note

Opposite: «predictable». In maths, one roll of a fair dice is unpredictable, but each number has a chance of 1 in 6. Noun: «unpredictability».

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «unpredictable» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unpredictable/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.