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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
unpredictable
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
as
▪ Because it was Ivanisevic, the final was as unpredictable as the man.
▪ But I was never as unpredictable as Clarisa, and eventually that had driven me and Paquita into the same camp.
▪ The game at the Manor was just as close; just as unpredictable.
▪ Besides, your readers' behavior is as unpredictable as their eating habits or love lives.
▪ Its course was as unpredictable as its volume.
so
▪ The weather is so unpredictable that only those who are well equipped and experienced walkers should attempt the high tops.
▪ They need to maintain a sense that the world is not so unpredictable.
▪ But rain has fallen here, too, in that arbitrary way which makes life so unpredictable.
▪ The Town Moor draw's favours are so unpredictable that you may as well stick to choosing a horse for its name alone.
very
▪ That pressure is making the future of many rural primary schools very unpredictable.
▪ A heavy downpour before the start left the pitch covered with puddles, which made the behaviour of the ball very unpredictable.
▪ Here the outcome is still very unpredictable, with few precedents to follow.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Britain is well known for its unpredictable weather.
▪ Mayoral elections are usually unpredictable, highly dependent on the particular appeal of personalities and the ability to form coalitions.
▪ The situation in the region's poorest country remains volatile and highly unpredictable.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A human being is unpredictable whether he is a national resident or a migrant: we have to live with that.
▪ At the other end of the table, the finishing order is unpredictable.
▪ Creatures born in the rugged environments of arctic climes must deal with the unpredictable variations that nature is always throwing at them.
▪ It is that constant and that unpredictable.
▪ Long drawn out and unpredictable as the process may be, it has one great advantage for the policy-maker.
▪ Mark Waite of Sugarlands, Texas, does commercial litigation, which is the most grueling and unpredictable legal work.
▪ The hours were long and unpredictable compared with the brisk efficiency of the House.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
unpredictable

1840, from un- (1) "not" + predictable (adj.). Related: Unpredictably; unpredictability.

Wiktionary
unpredictable

a. Unable to be predict. n. An unpredictable thing.

WordNet
unpredictable
  1. adj. impossible to foretell [ant: predictable]

  2. unknown in advance; "an unpredictable (or indeterminable) future"

  3. not occurring at expected times [syn: irregular]

Wikipedia
Unpredictable (Jamie Foxx album)

Unpredictable is the second studio album by American recording artist, singer-songwriter and actor Jamie Foxx. It was released on December 27, 2005, by J Records. The album serves as the follow-up to his debut album Peep This (1994), and occurred to be his first release in over eleven years. The album was supported by four singles: " Extravaganza" featuring Kanye West, the title track " Unpredictable" featuring Ludacris, " DJ Play a Love Song" featuring Twista, and "Can I Take U Home".

Upon its release, Unpredictable received generally mixed reviews from music critics, who were ambivalent towards its production and lyrical content. The album debuted at number 2, beating behind Mary J. Blige's The Breakthrough on the US Billboard 200, with 597,000 units in its first week. On the second week, the album rose to number one, overtaking Blige. Making this album, Foxx as the fourth artist to ever won a Academy Award for the acting, while achieving a number-one album on the US Billboard charts.

Unpredictable (song)

"Unpredictable" is the title track from Jamie Foxx's second album, Unpredictable and was released as the second single from the album in 2005. The song features rapper Ludacris and samples " Wildflower" and "Wild Flower (Suite)" by New Birth.

It reached #8 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart, #2 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart and #16 on the UK Singles Chart. The music video was directed by Hype Williams.

Unpredictable

Unpredictable may refer to:

  • Unpredictable (Classified album), 2000
  • Unpredictable (Jamie Foxx album), 2005
    • "Unpredictable" (song), the title song
  • Unpredictable (Mystikal album), 1997
  • Unpredictable (Natalie Cole album), 1977
  • "Unpredictable", a song by Keshia Chanté from Keshia Chanté
  • "Unpredictable" (Eureka), an episode of Eureka
  • "Unpredictable", a song by 5 Seconds of Summer
Unpredictable (Natalie Cole album)

Unpredictable is a 1977 album by American singer Natalie Cole. Released on February 22, 1977 by Capitol Records, The album include the single, " I've Got Love on My Mind", peaked at #5 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100, and topped the R&B Charts in 1977.

Unpredictable (Mystikal album)

Unpredictable is the second album released by rapper, Mystikal. It was released on November 11, 1997 on No Limit Records and Jive Records. It is his second solo album, and is also his first album with No Limit Records and Jive Records (the first album to be distributed by Jive instead of Priority Records) and featured production from the label's production team Beats By the Pound. The album was a huge success, peaking at #3 on the Billboard 200 and #1 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums, and spawning the hit single " Ain't No Limit", which peaked at #23 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks. The album was certified platinum by the RIAA on April 24, 1998. This album also marks Snoop Dogg's first appearance as a No Limit Soldier.

Usage examples of "unpredictable".

For the thousandth time, he wished Bowser were still here, wily and unpredictable and fiercely unwilling to surrender.

But Brushy Jim was unpredictable, and he had a hair-trigger temper, so she decided that a shrug was the safest response.

A master horologe, whose duty it was to determine the intime of returning pilots according to complicated formulae weighting Einsteinian time distortions against the unpredictable deformations of the manifold, had told me that Soli had aged one hundred and three years this last journey and would have died but for the skills of the Lord Cetic.

The danger is that it invokes only spirits of time, and such monoclinal adjurations risk perturbing the diametric complement, which in the case of time is chance, thus hazarding aberrant and unpredictable eventualities.

I remembered the stories my Aunt Justine had told me, that Soli was a man famous for his terrible, unpredictable rages.

Terrorists are stateless and constantly on the move, their organizational structures are always in flux, and the only thing that is predictable is that they will be unpredictable.

I was in no doubt that this had something to do with the mirage of Dr Carter and his presence in my life, even if that presence was in fact more of an absence, for Dr Carter remained unbiddable, unpredictable.

The Warps were a legacy of Chaos, a last remaining manifestation of the pandemonium that had once ruled unchecked in the world before the rise of Order, and when they came, terrifying and unpredictable, every man, woman and child took shelter.

A sighting of the enormous, unpredictable rhinos, with two horns, the front one long and low-slung, and two coats of reddish fur, a soft downy underwool and an outer layer of long guard hair, always brought exclamations of wonder.

In the Emergency Room of Jacobi Hospital Carlson came to the conclusion that the trouble with Serving A Cause was that it involved associating with unperceptive and dangerously unpredictable people.

The beams had to fumble blindly for the fugitives, and they told of each touch, but only after it occurred, And Kim struggled to make his course unpredictable.

There had been no Deathbird re-con flyovers, but he attributed that to the unpredictable down and updrafts swirling among the peaks of the Bitterroot Range.

The Amir of Bokhara is dangerous and unpredictable and he dislikes Europeans.

Now, the Nirauan cliffs took the challenge a step farther by adding unpredictable curves and breakpoints, with varying widths and depths, jutting rocks, and clinging tree vines.

But he saw Barcelona to the west and, farther south, Cartagena, were also possible destinations for Spanish warships whose captains would be anxious to keep to the northward because of the shoals and unpredictable currents along the low-lying African coast.