0 likely to change suddenly and without reason and therefore not able to be predicted (= expected before it happens) or depended on:
1 tending to change suddenly and without reason or warning, and therefore not able to be depended on:
2 if something is unpredictable, it is likely to change suddenly and unexpectedly, so cannot be planned for:
To protect it from the unpredictable nature of software sales, the company has adopted a new business model.
unpredictable effects/events/factors Unpredictable events can have a huge impact on bond values.
It is a very unpredictable market.
The turmoil on Wall Street is emblematic of how the credit mess is spreading in unpredictable ways.
She's very unpredictable so there's no knowing how she'll react to the news.
Unfortunately the outcome of this kind of treatment can be rather unpredictable.
He's fun to be with but can be a bit unpredictable at times, you never know what kind of mood he's going to be in.
I really enjoy having a holiday in the UK, if only the weather weren't so unpredictable.
The finishing time is a bit unpredictable, it depends how things go.
Politics, on the other hand, tend to be unpredictable, murky, and dirty - that is, too often all about self-serving power and, ultimately, money.
Moreover, the precision and location of neural damage is reasonably well controlled in laboratory studies but is unpredictable in the human.
In our study, readers skipped 31% of predictable words compared with 22% of the unpredictable words.
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