predictive
predictive
adjectiveDefinition of PREDICTIVE
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>
Synonyms predictive
Related Words apocalyptic (also apocalyptical), millenarian; baleful, dire, foreboding, menacing, portentous, sinister, threatening; inauspicious, unpromising; oracular; revelatory, telling
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