probabilistic

adjective

prob·​a·​bi·​lis·​tic ˌprä-bə-bə-ˈli-stik 

1

: of or relating to probabilism

2

: of, relating to, or based on probability

probabilistically

ˌprä-bə-bə-ˈli-sti-k(ə-)lē 

adverb

Examples of probabilistic in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Unlike deterministic business processes, agentic systems are inherently probabilistic. —Kalyan Kumar, Forbes.com, 3 Apr. 2025

Computer vision is better described as a form of information management and prediction, as configurations of data with which probabilistic applications have been made, based on human instructions of varying degrees of clarity or specificity. —Sonja Drimmer, Artforum, 1 Apr. 2025

While new bugs and a lack of debugging tools are serious problems, the challenge of probabilistic outputs is one of the biggest issues facing QA professionals. —Margarita Simonova, Forbes, 18 Mar. 2025

This gives probabilistic preferences for every pair of outcomes sampled from the preference graph, yielding a preference dataset. —Lance Eliot, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1864, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Rhymes for probabilistic

• anachronistic
• animalistic
• antagonistic
• antiphlogistic
• behavioristic
• cannibalistic
• capitalistic
• characteristic
• collectivistic
• deterministic
• ethnolinguistic
• expressionistic