predictably
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3.4
- adverb
- /prɪˈdɪktəbli/
:
como era de esperar
- Several of the schools here have engaged in reforms that will predictably increase costs.
- the results, predictably
- predictably low
- vary predictably
And today, predictably, she brings the heat.
- And today, predictably, she brings the heat.
- It's due far too soon and predictably, I have not started writing it yet.
- And the answers are predictably kind of like PC.
- I've asked Usain that question, and his answer was predictably him, you know, and my answer is predictably me.
- And so it's predictably non deterministic because you don't know what the seed is going to be.
- So predictably enough, she becomes pregnant and now they have to figure out what they're going to do.
- In any case, when she demanded her own name on the film posters, Biograph Film predictably refused.
- So for the next three months, I was very careful not to be predictably in the same spot at the same time.
Examples
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Now, the MBFO, perhaps predictably, was met with a strong backlash.
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Well that went predictably bad.
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It's due far too soon and predictably, I have not started writing it yet.
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And today, predictably, she brings the heat.
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First of all, the three and a half hour car ride was predictably hell.
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Meanwhile in other news, predictably...
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Fairly predictably, the 2006 World Cup turned into an absolute circus.
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The class hurried on, however, as that group predictably did, and I had to catch up with them.
Fiction book (1993) -
Ann Arbor's first female mayor was, predictably, a liberal Democrat whose house faces the park.
Academic text (1995) -
The team's victory was predictably celebrated with a big party.
Synonyms
786
1.0
There is a good chance it will happen
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1.0
As expected, without surprise
19
3.7
In a way people expect to happen
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3.5
As most people thought would happen
In a way people thought would happen
Antonyms
How Predictable
Surface Forms
Morphology
predictably = predictable (transparent) = predict + able + ly
Formed by adding the productive adverbial suffix '-ly' to 'predictable', which itself is transparently 'predict' + '-able'.
Etymology
Predictably comes from Latin parts pre- 'before' and dicere 'to say', the same root as in predict and dictate. So to do something predictably is to do it 'as said before' or 'as expected', which is why it means it happens in a way you can expect.