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{
"term": "predictable",
"partOfSpeech": "adjective",
"academic": true,
"ox5000": true,
"cefr": "b2",
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "if something is predictable, you know in advance that it will happen or what it will be like",
"cefr": "b2",
"examples": [
{
"text": "a predictable result"
},
{
"text": "The ending of the book was entirely predictable."
},
{
"text": "The disease follows a highly predictable pattern."
},
{
"text": "In March and April, the weather is much less predictable."
},
{
"text": "He asked whether this was predictable from previous performances."
},
{
"text": "Recent changes make the future even less predictable."
},
{
"text": "The results were utterly predictable."
},
{
"text": "It was fairly predictable that there would be clashes between rival groups."
},
{
"text": "The government's reaction was sadly predictable."
}
],
"collocations": {
"verbs": ["be", "seem", "become"],
"adverb": ["extremely", "fairly", "very"],
"preposition": ["from"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "behaving or happening in a way that you would expect and therefore boring",
"labels": "(often disapproving)",
"cefr": "c1",
"examples": [
{
"text": "He's very nice, but I find him rather dull and predictable."
},
{
"text": "Rock music is getting so predictable these days."
},
{
"text": "She had been in a number of predictable sitcoms."
}
],
"topics": ["Feelings"],
"collocations": {
"verbs": ["be", "seem", "become"],
"adverb": ["extremely", "fairly", "very"],
"preposition": ["from"]
}
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/prɪˈdɪktəbl/",
"audio": "pr/predictable/predictable__gb_1.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/prɪˈdɪktəbl/",
"audio": "pr/predictable/predictable__us_1.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": null
}