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What is the adjective for predictive?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verb predict which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

predictive
  1. Useful in predicting.
  2. (computing) Describing a predictor.
  3. (Medicine) Expressing the expected accuracy of a statistical measure or of a diagnostic test
  4. Synonyms:
  5. Examples:
    1. “Those who believe in the predictive power of dreams regard them as messages from God or as products of telepathy.”
      “The discourses of Jesus on the subject appear to be admonitory rather than predictive.”
      “Central abdominal adiposity has a stronger association with CV risk factors than peripheral obesity and is more predictive of coronary events.”
predictional
  1. Relating to prediction; prophetic; prognostic.
  2. Examples:
    1. “This parametric method dramatically reduced predictional errors in estimating interaction effects compared to the restricted partition method.”
      “It is obvious that with it the principle of induction would lose its predictional value.”
      Predictional astrology is, to my personal point of view, both a menace and a handicap.”
predictory
  1. Serving to predict; predictive.
  2. Examples:
    1. “This post is a sad observation inspired by what I find to be excessive indulgence in predictory politics in the previous post in this weblog.”
predictable
  1. Able to be predicted.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “The result of this was a predictable boom in property with a spiral of frenetic lending from both dubious secondary banks and the respectable clearing banks.”
      “What followed was the predictable demise of the country's economic sector and the closing of major factories and industries.”
      “Instead, he is given the oldest diatribe, the most hackneyed and predictable staple of every Hollywood monster film since Frankenstein.”
predicted
predicting
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