unprevisible

English

Etymology

From un- +‎ previsible.

Adjective

unprevisible (comparative more unprevisible, superlative most unprevisible)

1. (very rare) Not previsible; unforeseeable, unpredictable.

   Synonym: imprevisible

   • 1911, J[ohn] W[illiam] Mackail, “The Progress of Poetry”, in Lectures on Poetry, London […]: Longmans, Green and Co., page 330:

     For the flowering and fruitage, for the actual creation of a new and great poetry, it awaits, as it did before Homer, before Virgil, before Milton, the incalculable and unprevisible individual genius.

   • 1932, Samuel Beckett, Dream of Fair to Middling Women, London, Paris: Calder Publications, published 1993, →ISBN, page 139:

     And I think of the ultimately unprevisible atom threatening to come asunder, the left wing of the atom plotting without ceasing to spit in the eye of the physical statistician and commit a most copious offence of nuisance on his cenotaphs of indivisibility.

     Intentionally nonsensical.

Derived terms

• unprevisibility