nonpredictive
- adjective
- /ˌnɒnprɪˈdɪktɪv/
- Specialized
- His previous experiences proved to be nonpredictive of success in his new job.
Examples
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Verbal IQ was a significant predictor when paired with orthography and attention ratings, and was nonpredictive when paired with phonological skills or rapid automatic naming.
Academic text (2014) -
Vaughn et al. (2006) concluded that oral reading fluency (ORF), word attack, and passage comprehension predicted responsiveness, with no factors identified as nonpredictive.
Academic text (2014) -
Sixth, analysis of responsiveness to intervention through identification of predictive and/or nonpredictive factors had to have been conducted.
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The results of the experiment were nonpredictive, leaving researchers unsure of future outcomes.
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Many nonpredictive variables were included in the study, making it hard to determine any clear trends.
Synonyms
Likely to change suddenly and hard to know in advance
Not able to tell what will happen next
Not making predictions about the future
Not able to predict what will happen
Not planning for problems that will happen in the future
Having no single predictable result because chance affects it
Antonyms
How Predictive
- Formal
- Specialized
- Specialized
Surface Forms
Morphology
nonpredictive = predictive (transparent) = non + predict + ive
The productive negation prefix 'non-' is directly attached to the adjective 'predictive', yielding a straightforward negative meaning.
Etymology
Nonpredictive starts with non- meaning 'not' and the rest comes from predict, which breaks into pre- 'before' and dict 'say'. So nonpredictive means 'not able to say before', or not able to show or forecast future results.