PREDICABLE

  

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PREDICABLE

Definition: PREDICABLE

PREDICABLE

Adjective

1. Capable of being predicated or affirmed of something; affirmable; attributable.

Noun

1. One of the five most general relations of attributes involved in logical arrangements, namely, genus, species, difference, property, and accident.

2. Anything affirmable of another; especially, a general attribute or notion as affirmable of, or applicable to, many individuals.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "PREDICABLE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1781. (references)


Synonyms within Context: PREDICABLE

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Affirmation

Pronunciative, affirmative, soi-disant; positive; certain; express, explicit; (patent); absolute, emphatic, flat, broad, round, pointed, marked, distinct, decided, confident, trenchant, dogmatic, definitive, formal, solemn, categorical, peremptory; unretracted; predicable.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: PREDICABLE

English words defined with "PREDICABLE": Predicability. (references)
Non-English Usage: "PREDICABLE" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

Spanish (predicable).

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Non-Fiction Usage: PREDICABLE

SubjectTopicQuote

Economic History

Brazil

So far, these measures have reduced industrial output, and have resulted in a predicable downgrading of economic growth for the country. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: PREDICABLE

"PREDICABLE" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "PREDICABLE" is used about 3 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)100%3202,518

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translation: PREDICABLE

Language Translations for "PREDICABLE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Arabic 

  

‏مسند (attribute, back, cushion, pillow, predicate, predicative, rest, subject). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

който може да се твърди, който може да се заяви, атрибут (attribute, predicament). (various references)

   

French

  

prédicable. (various references)

   

German

  

aussagbar. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

βεβαιώσιμοσ (affirmable, certifiable, comfirable, verifiable). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

edicablepray

   

Spanish

  

predicable. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

iddia edilebilir şey, iddia edilebilir. (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

có thể xác nhận, có thể nhận chắc, có thể khẳng định, điều có thể nhận chắc, điều có thể khẳng định. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: PREDICABLE

Derivations

Words beginning with "PREDICABLE": predicables. (additional references)


Misspellings

"PREDICABLE" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: predicables. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: PREDICABLE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-b-c-d-e-e-i-l-p-r"

-1 letter: calipered.

-2 letters: bediaper, calibred, credible, parceled, pedalier, replaced, rideable.

-3 letters: baldric, beadier, bedrail, bedrape, belaced, bipedal, bleared, brailed, caliber, calibre, calipee, caliper, capered, carbide, cleared, creedal, debacle, deciare, decibel, declare, decrial, leadier, pearled, pedicab, pedicel, pedicle, peracid, percale, periled, piebald, pierced, pleader, predial, radicel, radicle, relaced, replace, replead, replica, replied, ridable.

-4 letters: abider, aedile.

 Words containing the letters "a-b-c-d-e-e-i-l-p-r"
 

+1 letter: depreciable, predicables, predictable.

 

+2 letters: decipherable.

 

+3 letters: unpredictable.

 

+4 letters: disrespectable, indecipherable, republicanized, undecipherable, unpredictables.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: PREDICABLE


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

50 52 45 44 49 43 41 42 4C 45

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010000 01010010 01000101 01000100 01001001 01000011 01000001 01000010 01001100 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#80 &#82 &#69 &#68 &#73 &#67 &#65 &#66 &#76 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0050 0052 0045 0044 0049 0043 0041 0042 004C 0045

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

50523938433735364639

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Quotations: Non-fiction
4. Usage Frequency
5. Translations: Modern
6. Derivations
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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