unpredictable | | |
adj. | 1. unpredictable | not capable of being foretold. |
| ~ uncertain | not certain to occur; not inevitable.; "everything is uncertain about the army"; "the issue is uncertain" |
| ~ aleatory | dependent on chance.; "the aleatory element in life" |
| ~ capricious, freakish | changeable.; "a capricious summer breeze"; "freakish weather" |
| ~ episodic, occasional | occurring or appearing at usually irregular intervals.; "episodic in his affections"; "occasional headaches" |
| ~ unforeseeable | incapable of being anticipated.; "unforeseeable consequences" |
adj. | 2. unpredictable | unknown in advance.; "an unpredictable (or indeterminable) future" |
| ~ indeterminable, undeterminable | not capable of being definitely decided or ascertained. |
adj. | 3. irregular, unpredictable | not occurring at expected times. |
| ~ sporadic | recurring in scattered and irregular or unpredictable instances.; "a city subjected to sporadic bombing raids" |
surmise | | |
n. (communication) | 1. conjecture, guess, hypothesis, speculation, supposition, surmisal, surmise | a message expressing an opinion based on incomplete evidence. |
| ~ opinion, view | a message expressing a belief about something; the expression of a belief that is held with confidence but not substantiated by positive knowledge or proof.; "his opinions appeared frequently on the editorial page" |
| ~ divination | successful conjecture by unusual insight or good luck. |
v. (cognition) | 2. surmise | infer from incomplete evidence. |
| ~ deduce, derive, infer, deduct | reason by deduction; establish by deduction. |
v. (communication) | 3. surmise, suspect | imagine to be the case or true or probable.; "I suspect he is a fugitive"; "I surmised that the butler did it" |
| ~ hazard, guess, venture, pretend | put forward, of a guess, in spite of possible refutation.; "I am guessing that the price of real estate will rise again"; "I cannot pretend to say that you are wrong" |
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