predicted
- 1Simple past and past participle of predict.
She predicted the outcome of the election with surprising accuracy.
The earthquake had been predicted by several geologists months earlier.
Note
A regular -ed form doing three jobs: simple past (she predicted it), participle after have or be (particles that had been predicted by theorists decades earlier), and adjective before a noun. That last use hardens into a technical term in statistics. Christopher Baum's An Introduction to Modern Econometrics Using Stata (2006) separates the predicted value, an estimate of the dependent variable's average, from the forecast. Outside such work, predicted and forecast overlap freely.
predicted is a form of predict
predict, verb: To forecast or estimate a future event using knowledge and reasoning, or to foretell one through claimed mystical power. Full entry
- Forms
- predictpredicts he/she/itpredicting -ing formpredicted past tense, past participle
- Spelling
- predict → predicted: add -ed
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /ɪd/, an extra syllable.
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