Definition of unexpected Unexpected
/ʌˌnɪkspɛˈktɪd/ - [unikspektid] - un•ex•pect•ed
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What does unexpected mean?
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| unexpected - not expected or anticipated; "unexpected guests"; "unexpected news" | ||
| expected considered likely or probable to happen or arrive; "prepared for the expected attack" | ||
| surprising causing surprise or wonder or amazement; "the report shows a surprising lack of hard factual data"; "leaped up with surprising agility"; "she earned a surprising amount of money" | ||
| unannounced, unheralded, unpredicted without warning or announcement; "they arrived unannounced"; "a totally unheralded telegram that his daughter...died last night"- M.A.D.Howe | ||
| out of the blue, unanticipated, unforeseen, unlooked-for not anticipated; "unanticipated and disconcerting lines of development"- H.W.Glidden; "unforeseen circumstances"; "a virtue unlooked-for in people so full of energy"; "like a bolt out of the blue" | ||
| unhoped, unhoped-for, unthought, unthought-of so unexpected as to have not been imagined; "an unhoped-for piece of luck"; "an unthought advantage"; "an unthought-of place to find the key" | ||
| unprovided for not prepared or ready for | ||
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- unexpected (Adjective)
Not expected, anticipated or foreseen.
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- unexpected (a.)
Not expected; coming without warning; sudden.
OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ω
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unexpected
Not expected, anticipated or foreseen.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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unexpected
un-eks-pek′ted, adj. not expected, coming without warning, sudden.—adj. Unexpec′tant, not expectant.—adv. Unexpect′edly.—n. Unexpec′tedness
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