PREDICTIVE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does predictive mean? 

• PREDICTIVE (adjective)
  The adjective PREDICTIVE has 1 sense:

1. of or relating to prediction; having value for making predictions

  Familiarity information: PREDICTIVE used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PREDICTIVE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of or relating to prediction; having value for making predictions

Synonyms:

predictive; prognostic; prognosticative

Similar:

prophetic; prophetical (foretelling events as if by supernatural intervention)

Derivation:

predict (indicate, as with a sign or an omen)

predict (make a prediction about; tell in advance)

 Context examples 

Lactate uptake could also have predictive value when used as an imaging tracer.

(Study Challenges Long-Standing Concept in Cancer Metabolism, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Strongly predictive of normal acid-base status at time of observation.

(Normal Continuous Cardiotocography Pattern, NCI Thesaurus)

Predictive of abnormal acid-base status at time of observation.

(Abnormal Continuous Cardiotocography Pattern, NCI Thesaurus)

Predictive factor may also describe something that increases a person's risk of developing a condition or disease.

(Disease Predictive Factor, NCI Dictionary)

Challenge to research community to revolutionize the classification of human tumors, away from classification based on morphology, toward a more clinically predictive and useful classification system based on molecular characterization of tumors.

(Molecular Classification of Tumors, NCI Thesaurus)

Pharmacogenomic studies can potentially be predictive of an individual's drug-response or adverse reactions or susceptibility to iatrogenic disorders, and may also reveal new targets that can help in the design of new drugs.

(Pharmacogenomic Study, NCI Thesaurus)

Not predictive of abnormal acid-base status at time of observation but insufficient to classify pattern as Category I or III.

(Indeterminate Continuous Cardiotocography Pattern, NCI Thesaurus)

High levels of prenatal oestrogens were even more predictive of likelihood of autism than were high levels of prenatal androgens (such as testosterone).

(High levels of oestrogen in the womb linked to autism, University of Cambridge)

The accuracy of the models varied, with some showing high predictive powers, such as for percentage body fat, while others had only modest prognostic power, such as for cardiovascular risk.

(Study highlights potential for ‘liquid health check’ to predict disease risk, University of Cambridge)

The researchers also examined if certain clinical or demographic characteristics measured at the emergency department visit were predictive of subsequent suicide death.

(Emergency department study reveals patterns of patients at increased risk for suicide, National Institutes of Health)