synonyms for unpredictable
synonyms for unpredictable
- erratic
- fickle
- uncertain
- unreliable
- unstable
- capricious
- chance
- chancy
- dicey
- doubtful
- fluctuating
- fluky
- from left field
- hanging by a thread
- iffy
- incalculable
- inconstant
- random
- touch and go
- touchy
- unforeseeable
- up for grabs
- variable
- whimsical
On this page you’ll find 79 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to unpredictable, such as: erratic, fickle, uncertain, unreliable, unstable, and capricious.
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How to use unpredictable in a sentence
They have long been unhappy with what they see as Apple’s inconsistent enforcement of its own App Store guidelines, unpredictable content decisions and lapses in communication, according to more than a dozen people involved in the matter.
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Blessed if you’re not as unpredictable as one of Hitler’s speeches.
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In the color-selecting tests the average of error was quite unpredictable.
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WORDS RELATED TO UNPREDICTABLE
- accidental
- any which way
- bits and pieces
- blind
- capricious
- careless
- casual
- chance
- desultory
- directionless
- drifting
- erratic
- fanciful
- fickle
- fits and starts
- flighty
- fortuitous
- frivolous
- goalless
- haphazard
- heedless
- hit-or-miss
- indecisive
- indiscriminate
- irresolute
- objectless
- pointless
- purposeless
- random
- shiftless
- stray
- thoughtless
- unavailing
- undirected
- unguided
- unplanned
- unpredictable
- vagrant
- wandering
- wanton
- wayward
- averse
- contrary
- hesitant
- immovable
- indisposed
- inflexible
- intractable
- loath
- negative
- negativistic
- obstinate
- ornery
- perverse
- reluctant
- stubborn
- unbending
- unmanageable
- unpredictable
- unruly
- any way the wind blows
- arbitrary
- blowing hot and cold
- careless
- changeful
- contrary
- crotchety
- effervescent
- erratic
- every which way
- fanciful
- fickle
- fitful
- flaky
- flighty
- freakish
- gaga
- helter-skelter
- humorsome
- impulsive
- inconstant
- kinky
- lubricious
- mercurial
- moody
- mutable
- notional
- odd
- picky
- punchy
- queer
- quirky
- temperamental
- ticklish
- unpredictable
- unreasonable
- unstable
- up and down
- vagarious
- variable
- volatile
- wayward
- whimsical
- yo-yo
- capricious
- contingent
- dicey
- erratic
- fluctuant
- fluky
- hazardous
- iffy
- incalculable
- precarious
- problematic
- problematical
- rocky
- speculative
- ticklish
- touchy
- tricky
- uncertain
- unpredictable
- unsound
- whimsical
- agitated
- capricious
- changeful
- commutative
- convertible
- fickle
- fitful
- flighty
- fluctuating
- fluid
- impulsive
- inconstant
- indecisive
- irregular
- irresolute
- irresponsible
- kaleidoscopic
- mercurial
- mobile
- movable
- mutable
- permutable
- protean
- restless
- reversible
- revocable
- shifting
- skittish
- spasmodic
- transformable
- transitional
- uncertain
- unpredictable
- unreliable
- unsettled
- unstable
- unsteady
- vacillating
- vagrant
- variable
- variant
- varying
- versatile
- volatile
- wavering
- whimsical
- accidental
- casual
- chance
- controlled by
- dependent
- fluky
- fortuitous
- haphazard
- incidental
- likely
- odd
- probable
- probably
- random
- subject to
- unanticipated
- uncertain
- unexpected
- unforeseeable
- unforeseen
- unpredictable
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Pronunciation:
[ ʌnpɹɪdˈɪktəbə͡l], [ ʌnpɹɪdˈɪktəbəl], [ ʌ_n_p_ɹ_ɪ_d_ˈɪ_k_t_ə_b_əl]
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adj.
• aimless (adjective)
- most unguided,
- more vagrant,
- most drifting,
- in-discriminate,
- un planned,
- most undirected,
- more drifting,
- most vagrant,
- un-planned,
- more undirected,
- more bits and pieces,
- most goalless,
- more goalless,
- un-predictable,
- most bits and pieces,
- more objectless,
- un-availing,
- in decisive,
- un directed,
- most bits-and-pieces,
- un predictable,
- in-decisive,
- more unguided,
- fits starts,
- un guided,
- most objectless,
- flighty,
- un-directed,
- most directionless,
- un availing,
- more directionless,
- more bits-and-pieces,
- in discriminate,
- un-guided.
• all (adjective)
- unpredictable.
• balky (adjective)
- in flexible,
- un-manageable,
- most negativistic,
- obstinate,
- in-tractable,
- in-flexible,
- un manageable,
- in-disposed,
- in tractable,
- stubborn,
- in disposed,
- immovable,
- more negativistic,
- un bending,
- un-bending.
• capricious (adjective)
- up and down,
- flaky,
- notional,
- mutable,
- yo-yo,
- quirky,
- any way the wind blows,
- Humorsome,
- changeful,
- oddest,
- YOYO,
- Vagarious.
• chancy (adjective)
- Fluctuant.
• changeable (adjective)
- fluky,
- up for grabs,
- chance,
- from left field,
- random,
- touch and go,
- doubtful,
- hanging by a thread,
- commutative,
- reversible,
- transformable,
- iffy,
- revocable,
- transitional,
- shifting,
- unforeseeable,
- Permutable,
- fluctuating.
• contingent (adjective)
- more probably,
- un-foreseen,
- more unanticipated,
- de-pendent,
- un anticipated,
- most unanticipated,
- un-foreseeable,
- un foreseen,
- un-anticipated,
- de pendent,
- un foreseeable.
• delicate (adjective)
- most hair trigger,
- most hair-trigger,
- hair-trigger,
- most hairtrigger,
- more hairtrigger,
- more hair-trigger,
- more hair trigger,
- hair trigger.
• hesitant (adjective)
- dis inclined,
- doubting,
- more faltering,
- de laying,
- more dawdling,
- dis-inclined,
- most faltering,
- Half-hearted,
- more uneager,
- un eager,
- un sure,
- de-laying,
- most uneager,
- un-sure,
- most dawdling,
- un-willing,
- half hearted,
- un willing,
- un-eager.
• iffy (adjective)
- in lap of gods.
• impulsive (adjective)
- ADLIB,
- hot-and-cold,
- hot and cold,
- unprompted,
- gone off deep end,
- ad lib,
- Unmeditated.
• incalculable (adjective)
- more jillion,
- no end to,
- most unfixed,
- in-finite,
- in finite,
- un told,
- innumerable,
- in numerable,
- more unfixed,
- in estimable,
- most jillion,
- most unreckonable,
- more zillion,
- in-calculable,
- un reckonable,
- un-fixed,
- most zillion,
- un fixed,
- more unreckonable,
- in-estimable,
- un-reckonable,
- unreckonable,
- in-numerable,
- un-told,
- in calculable.
• incomputable (adjective)
- in-computable,
- in computable.
• incongruent (adjective)
- in-congruent,
- in congruent.
• incongruous (adjective)
- un becoming,
- in aptest,
- more disconsonant,
- un suited,
- dis-consonant,
- more inapropos,
- un-intelligible,
- un connected,
- mis-matched,
- un-suitable,
- in congruous,
- in-aptest,
- in-appropriate,
- in-compatible,
- most disconsonant,
- in apropos,
- illogical,
- un-coordinated,
- un-balanced,
- un coordinated,
- un-even,
- in appropriate,
- in-apter,
- in-congruous,
- out keeping,
- dis consonant,
- in-coherent,
- mis matched,
- more mismatched,
- un-related,
- in compatible,
- un related,
- un suitable,
- un even,
- un-becoming,
- un-suited,
- most mismatched,
- in-apropos,
- in apter,
- most inapropos,
- un-connected.
• inconsistent (adjective)
- in consistent,
- dis-sonant,
- in-consistent,
- out step,
- dis sonant.
• irresponsible (adjective)
- in-cautious,
- ill-considered,
- most uncareful,
- illconsidered,
- most unanswerable,
- more unanswerable,
- un answerable,
- fly by night,
- noaccount,
- un-accountable,
- un-answerable,
- in cautious,
- un careful,
- ill considered,
- un accountable,
- no account,
- more uncareful,
- un-careful,
- un-trustworthy.
• mercurial (adjective)
- more bubbleheaded,
- shortfuse,
- more short fuse,
- flippest,
- more shortfuse,
- more short-fuse,
- most shortfuse,
- most short fuse,
- most short-fuse,
- irrepressible,
- most bubbleheaded.
• off the wall (adjective)
- more schizo,
- un-conventional,
- most schizo,
- un conventional,
- non conforming,
- off wall,
- off the wall,
- offcenter,
- out left field,
- Non-conforming,
- more schizoid,
- off center,
- most schizoid.
• Other relevant words: (adjective)
- unstable,
- tottering,
- changeable,
- hesitant,
- schizo,
- unfixed,
- negativistic,
- aimless,
- incalculable,
- schizoid,
- chancy,
- zillion,
- unguided,
- irresponsible,
- incongruent,
- tricker,
- hairtrigger,
- not in the cards,
- touchy,
- unlooked-for,
- no end of,
- cross-grained,
- wiggly,
- undependable,
- mismatched,
- delicate,
- at odds,
- undirected,
- Objectless,
- contingent,
- capricious,
- Trustless,
- balky,
- inconsistent,
- wacky,
- dicey,
- fickle,
- in conflict,
- incongruous,
- uncareful,
- lacking confidence,
- most probably,
- surprising,
- whimsical,
- directionless,
- pettish,
- touch-and-go,
- eye-opening,
- bits and pieces,
- incomputable,
- controlled by,
- at variance,
- impulsive,
- unlooked for,
- bundle of nerves,
- vacillant,
- not fixed,
- inapropos,
- short-fuse,
- uncertain,
- not tightly wrapped,
- flipper,
- without number,
- fits and starts,
- Perturbable,
- bubbleheaded,
- unsettled,
- no bargain,
- slippery,
- no good,
- Crossgrained,
- unrestful,
- measureless,
- disconsonant,
- uncountable,
- unassured,
- Out of keeping,
- unanswerable,
- bits-and-pieces,
- not bargained for,
- self-willed,
- goalless,
- uneager,
- unpeaceful,
- unanticipated,
- out in left field,
- out of step.
• slippery (adjective)
- in-securest,
- in-secure,
- twofaced,
- un-safest,
- un safest,
- un safe,
- in securest,
- in-securer,
- dis honest,
- un-safer,
- in secure,
- dis-honest,
- in securer,
- un safer,
- un-safe,
- two faced.
• surprising (adjective)
- extra ordinary.
• temperamental (adjective)
- easily upset,
- head-strong,
- hyper,
- in bad mood,
- hypersensitive.
• touchy (adjective)
- more pettish,
- over-sensitive,
- bundle nerves,
- most pettish,
- quicktempered,
- most oversensitive,
- over sensitive,
- wired up,
- more oversensitive,
- more perturbable,
- most perturbable,
- up-tight,
- up tight,
- most splenetic,
- oversensitive,
- badtempered,
- bad tempered.
• uncertain (adjective)
- unconfirmed,
- on thin ice,
- hanging by thread.
• uncountable (adjective)
- un-countable,
- un countable.
• undependable (adjective)
- more unassured,
- un-dependable,
- most trustless,
- more trustless,
- nogood,
- most unassured,
- un-assured,
- un assured,
- un dependable,
- bummest,
- trickest.
• unexpected (adjective)
- most eye-opening,
- eye opening,
- most unlookedfor,
- more unlooked-for,
- more eye-opening,
- un heralded,
- instantaneous,
- more eyeopening,
- most eyeopening,
- more eye opening,
- most unlooked-for,
- not cards,
- most unlooked for,
- more payback,
- un expected,
- un-expected,
- not in cards,
- not the cards,
- most payback,
- more unlooked for,
- un-heralded,
- most eye opening,
- more unlookedfor,
- unlookedfor,
- eyeopening.
• unsettled (adjective)
- un easy,
- un nerved,
- dis orderly,
- most unnerved,
- un-easier,
- un quieter,
- unnerved,
- most unpeaceful,
- more rattled,
- un-peaceful,
- un quiet,
- most rattled,
- un-quietest,
- un peaceful,
- un-restful,
- un-settled,
- more unpeaceful,
- more unrestful,
- un restful,
- un-nerved,
- un settled,
- dis-orderly,
- un-easiest,
- un quietest,
- un-quieter,
- un easiest,
- more unnerved,
- un-quiet,
- un easier,
- most unrestful.
• unstable (adjective)
- un-stable,
- un stable.
• unstable/unsteady (adjective)
- most teetering,
- un steadiest,
- Teetering,
- un-stabler,
- un stabler,
- un-stablest,
- more teetering,
- un steady,
- un-steadier,
- un-steadiest,
- unsteadiest,
- most weaving,
- un-steady,
- wigglier,
- un stablest,
- un steadier,
- wiggliest,
- more weaving.
• vacillant (adjective)
- shillyshally.
• wacky (adjective)
- hare-brained,
- zany.
• wayward (adjective)
- dis obedient,
- in subordinate,
- selfwilled,
- in-subordinate,
- most self-willed,
- in-corrigible,
- un compliant,
- more cross grained,
- most cross-grained,
- most selfwilled,
- most self willed,
- more self-willed,
- self indulgent,
- more self willed,
- self willed,
- more crossgrained,
- in corrigible,
- most cross grained,
- dis-obedient,
- cross grained,
- most crossgrained,
- un-compliant,
- un-governable,
- more selfwilled,
- selfindulgent,
- more cross-grained.
• whimsical (adjective)
- un-usual,
- un usual.
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- evolutionary,
- quicksilver,
- cosmetic,
- radically,
- gradual,
- gradually,
- developmental,
- radical,
- drastic,
- away.
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- erratic,
- volatile,
- fantastic,
- continue,
- inconstant,
- fantastical,
- variable,
- ticklish,
- unsteady,
- change,
- temperamental.
• aleatory (noun)
- aleatory.
• episodic (noun)
- episodic.
• freakish (noun)
- freakish.
• indeterminable (noun)
- indeterminable.
• irregular (noun)
- irregular.
• Other relevant words: (noun)
- eccentric.
• undeterminable (noun)
- undeterminable.
• unpredictable (noun)
- sporadic,
- occasional.
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Other synonyms:
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- unreliable,
- fallible.
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- mercurial,
- arbitrary.
• Other relevant words (noun):
- involuntary,
- uncaused,
- instinctive,
- seismic,
- faithless,
- Unsteadfast,
- moody,
- ugly,
- unprovable,
- shifty,
- bizarre,
- insecure,
- dizzy,
- unverifiable,
- desultory,
- irresolute,
- risky,
- unprepared,
- ever-changing,
- coseismal,
- obscure,
- odd,
- ambiguous,
- uncontrolled,
- flirtatious,
- speculative,
- sceptical,
- offhand,
- scatterbrained,
- intractable,
- unconvinced,
- rare,
- uncontrollable,
- extraordinary,
- anybody’s guess,
- shaky,
- Unreasoned,
- Indemonstrable,
- incidental,
- Vicissitudinary,
- unpredictably,
- unparalleled,
- undisciplined,
- aberrant,
- lawless,
- faddish,
- versatile,
- casual,
- fatal,
- tergiversating,
- unprepared for,
- independent,
- strong-willed,
- spontaneous,
- headstrong,
- debatable,
- sensitive,
- untaught,
- varying,
- queer,
- recalcitrant,
- inflammable,
- wavery,
- incorrigible,
- in the balance,
- undecided,
- Chancey,
- infirm,
- coquettish,
- unforeseen,
- flickery,
- serendipitous,
- rogue,
- vagrant,
- causeless,
- wavy,
- precarious,
- rarely vacillant,
- agnostic,
- intermittent,
- Vicissitudinous,
- unascertainable,
- temporary,
- unschooled,
- irrational,
- Flitting,
- hit-or-miss,
- roving,
- one shot,
- patchy,
- tricky,
- questionable,
- difficult,
- fraught with danger,
- unconsidered,
- fluid,
- disobedient,
- vague,
- restless,
- hot,
- untrained,
- problematic,
- madcap,
- accidental,
- shapeless,
- conjectural,
- critical,
- disputable,
- hazardous,
- indefinite,
- sudden,
- rambling,
- contumacious,
- headlong,
- undivined,
- out-of-the-way,
- unique,
- unaccountable,
- chameleon-like,
- precipitate,
- rampageous,
- explosive,
- disloyal,
- wishy-washy,
- unpredicted,
- Unstaid,
- freaky,
- anxious,
- adventitious,
- lucky,
- unpersuaded,
- nasty,
- wanton,
- fatidic,
- open to question,
- Vacillatory,
- extemporaneous,
- freak,
- wayward,
- strange,
- fitful,
- skeptical,
- giddy,
- tense,
- wild,
- devil-may-care,
- unruly,
- exceptional,
- chameleonic,
- unclear,
- anomalous,
- spasmodic,
- fanciful,
- skittish,
- shuffling,
- fractious,
- uneducated,
- unsure,
- unmanageable,
- afloat,
- crotchety,
- equivocal,
- quick,
- wilful,
- hairy,
- unheralded,
- treacherous,
- charged,
- unsound,
- haphazard,
- ungovernable,
- light,
- in doubt,
- fortuitous,
- snap,
- uneven,
- unorthodox,
- fraught,
- unpractised,
- changing,
- parlous,
- vacillating,
- dickey,
- flickering,
- unlucky,
- wavering,
- tottery,
- foolhardy,
- dodgy,
- labile,
- perilous,
- bad,
- untrustworthy,
- one-off,
- rocky,
- reckless,
- unannounced,
- unfaithful,
- spineless,
- Unguessed,
- alternating,
- indeterminate,
- hazy,
- unplanned,
- unresolved,
- indecisive,
- weird,
- unpremeditated,
- emotional,
- dicky,
- frivolous,
- without warning,
- naughty,
- unhealthy,
- abnormal,
- unsafe,
- atypical,
- untutored,
- wandering,
- mazy,
- refractory,
- adrift,
- toying,
- unusual,
- protean,
- coincidental,
- amorphous,
- spur-of-the-moment,
- unexpected,
- dangerous,
- rash,
- polysemous,
- unrestrained,
- undetermined,
- improbable,
- hesitating,
- Destinal,
- immediate,
- dubious,
- underground,
- impetuous,
- subjective,
- maverick.
How to use «Unpredictable» in context?
Unpredictable is an adjective that best describes something that isn’t in keeping with what is usually expected. This usually refers to something that is out of our control and can’t be predicted. This term can be used in a positive or negative way, depending on how we interpret it.
Being unpredictable can be a good thing, as it can make life more exciting. For example, if we think we know what’s going to happen next, but the outcome turns out to be unexpectedly different, that can be exciting.
On the other hand, if something is unpredictable, it can also be troubling.
Paraphrases for Unpredictable:
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Equivalence
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Adjective
unforeseeable.
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Verb, non-3rd person singular present
unforeseeable.
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Adjective
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Forward Entailment
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Adjective
predictable.
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Adjective
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Independent
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Adjective
foreseeable, inconsistent, precarious, randomized, sudden, unclear, uncontrolled, unintended, unknown, unreliable, unscheduled, unsettled, Predicable.
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anticipated, erratic, impromptu, incalculable, random, unanticipated, uncertain, uncontrollable, unexpected, unforeseen, unplanned, unpredicted, unstable, unsure, volatile, wayward.
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unexpected.
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chance, changeable, doubtful, erratic, fickle, fluky (informal) hit-and-miss (informal) hit-or-miss (informal) iffy (informal) inconstant, random, unforeseeable, unreliable, unstable, variable
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certain, constant, dependable, foreseeable, predictable, reliable, stable, steady, unchanging
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unpredictable
If you describe someone or something as unpredictable, you mean that you cannot tell what they are going to do or how they are going to behave. adj
(Antonym: predictable)
He is utterly unpredictable., …Britain’s notoriously unpredictable weather.
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unpredictably adv usu ADV with v, ADV adj
Monthly costs can rise or fall unpredictably., …her husband’s unpredictably violent behavior to others.
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unpredictability n-uncount oft with poss
…the unpredictability of the weather.
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expression used to describe an attempt to organize a difficult or unpredictable situation; trying to coordinate a group of people who tend to act chaotically |
[Bus.] E.g: Some say that managing a team is herding cats. |
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chance, chancy, confused, contingent, demented, en.synonym.one, doubtful, erratic, fortuitous, incalculable, inconsistent, indefinite, indeterminate, odd, queer, random, uncertain, unexpected, unfixed, unforeseen, unreliable, unsafe, unsure, unusual, variable, wandering, irregular.
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