predictively
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4.9
- adverb
- /prɪˈdɪktɪvli/
- Specialized
:
predictivamente
- In addition, there are both passive and active types of social withdrawal, with the former related to peer rejection and both concurrently and predictively related to anxiety and depression problems (Rubin & Mills, 1988; Younger & Daniels, 1992).
Examples
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A problem will emerge when such assessments come to be used predictively.
Academic text (2008) -
Phonological processing skills are predictively valid, but which individual skills are valid and when is unknown.
Academic text (2015) -
Events from 1980 to 1990 suggest that it is interpretatively and predictively robust.
Academic text (1991) -
If the notion of culture is thus helpful, predictively speaking, I don't agree that it can possibly be altogether vacuous.
Blog text (3) -
Chaingangcharlie responds: If the notion of culture is thus helpful predictively speaking, I don't agree that it can possibly be altogether vacuous.
Blog text (3) -
And instead of advancing useful, policy-relevant, predictively valid scholarship, incentives lead professors to publish remote, dense, arcane material that ultimately is largely unread.
Academic text (1995) -
However, Peters's aim was to argue that body size relationships represent scientifically legitimate theories that are predictively accurate and falsifiable, in contrast to many other ecological theories.
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The weather forecast was created very predictively, allowing people to plan their outdoor activities.
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Using historical data, the analysts looked at trends to answer questions predictively about future sales.
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She made predictively accurate assessments of the project's potential risks based on previous experience.
Synonyms
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7.4
In a way that tells what will happen
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8.6
In a way that shows someone can predict what will happen
In a way that hints at something that will happen later
How Prophetic
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8.6
- Literature
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7.4
- Literature
- Specialized
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4.9
Surface Forms
Morphology
predictively = predictive (transparent) = predict + ive + ly
The adverb is formed by adding the productive adverbial suffix '-ly' to the adjective 'predictive', a straightforward derivation.
Etymology
Predictively comes from predict, which breaks into pre- meaning 'before' and dict meaning 'say'. So to act predictively is like 'saying before' something happens, that is, making a guess or plan about the future.