unforeseeable

English

Etymology

From un- +‎ foreseeable.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

unforeseeable (comparative more unforeseeable, superlative most unforeseeable)

1. Incapable of being foreseen or anticipated.

   Synonyms: imprevisible, unforetellable

   Antonyms: foreseeable, foretellable, previsible; predictable, anticipable, anticipatable

   • 2022 November 16, Graham Eccles, “The Rest Day Working saga...”, in RAIL, number 970, page 32:

     Traincrew management has always been a bit of a black art, rather than a science. The present traincrew difficulties that beset the UK rail industry are neither new nor were they unforeseeable.

Translations

incapable of being foreseen

• Asturian: imprevisible
• Belarusian: непрадба́чаны (njepradbáčany)
• Bulgarian: непредвиди́м (nepredvidím)
• Catalan: imprevisible
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 無法預見的 / 无法预见的 (wúfǎ yùjiàn de), 不可預見的 / 不可预见的 (bù kě yùjiàn de), 無法預料的 / 无法预料的 (wúfǎ yùliào de)

• Czech: nepředvídatelný (cs)
• Danish: uforudseelig, uforudselig
• Dutch: onvoorzienbaar (nl)
• Esperanto: neantaŭvidebla
• Finnish: ennalta-arvaamaton
• French: imprévisible (fr)
• German: unvorhersehbar (de)
• Greek: απρόβλεπτος (el) (apróvleptos)
• Hungarian: előre nem látható, előreláthatatlan (hu)
• Italian: imprevedibile (it), imprevisibile
• Macedonian: непредвидлив (nepredvidliv)
• Polish: nieprzewidywalny (pl)
• Portuguese: imprevisível (pt)
• Russian: непредви́денный (ru) (nepredvídennyj)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: непредвѝдљив

  Roman: nepredvìdljiv (sh)

• Slovak: nepredvídateľný
• Slovene: nepredvidljiv
• Spanish: imprevisible (es)
• Swedish: oförutsebar (sv)
• Ukrainian: непередба́чуваний (neperedbáčuvanyj), непередба́чливий (neperedbáčlyvyj)

See also

• unforeseen