PREDICTIVE Synonyms: 21 Similar and Opposite Words

predictive

adjective

pri-ˈdik-tiv

as in prophetic

being a sign of a later course of events unfortunately, the stock market crash of 1929 turned out to be a predictive event, for the next decade was consumed by the Great Depression

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Recent Examples of predictive The predictive model’s accuracy improved significantly between phases, rising from 70.7% to 83.1% precision, with the ROC Index—a standard measure of model reliability—climbing from 89.8% to 91.7%. —

Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 14 May 2026 Being perfectly descriptive does not mean something is predictive. —

Michael Salfino, New York Times, 13 May 2026 Organizations that fail to adopt these predictive models could potentially become targets for large-scale cybercrime operations. —

Ethan Stone, USA Today, 11 May 2026 Ames Lab has shown that ductile refractory alloys can be designed through predictive modeling. —

Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 10 May 2026 See All Example Sentences for predictive

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Filming is being lined up for late 2027 on the project about small-town groupthink in 1930s Europe; Simenon’s 1939 novel is considered a prophetic study of race hatred and mass hysteria.

— Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 14 May 2026
Instead, the emotional dislocation, technological dread and fractured identity woven into Radiohead’s turn-of-the-century pivot now seem scarily prophetic.

— Jonathan Cohen, SPIN, 12 May 2026