unexpected
not expected; unforeseen; surprising: an unexpected pleasure;an unexpected development.
Origin of unexpected
1synonym study For unexpected
Other words for unexpected
Other words from unexpected
- un·ex·pect·ed·ly, adverb
- un·ex·pect·ed·ness, noun
Words Nearby unexpected
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How to use unexpected in a sentence
It’s not particularly Dickensian or Miltonian, though it does feature a wholly unexpected extended riff on Ingmar Bergman’s The Seventh Seal.
One day, Selin strikes up an email correspondence with a boy she’s barely spoken to, and their relationship begins to develop in strange and unexpected ways.
This September, the Vox Book Club is reading Elif Batuman’s The Idiot | Constance Grady | August 28, 2020 | VoxHe had unexpected success in managing Japan’s fraught relationships with its most important ally, the United States, and its largest trade partner, China.
The legacy Shinzo Abe, Japan’s longest-serving Prime Minister, will leave after resigning | claychandler | August 28, 2020 | FortuneManufacturers in some industries can expect unexpected events to erase the majority of a year’s profits over the course of a decade—and that’s just the baseline, accounting for probabilities like recurring storms and shipping snafus.
COVID-19 and climate change expose the dangers of unstable supply chains | matthewheimer | August 27, 2020 | FortuneThat geopolitical events would provide a push toward tech decoupling was unexpected.
The Chinese and U.S. Internets are drifting apart. Why that’s bad for the whole world | jakemeth | August 21, 2020 | Fortune
Airline pilots are now slowly, too slowly, being given access to flight simulators able to reproduce sudden and unexpected upsets.
Now imagine that one day hope appeared, an unexpected opportunity to free yourself, to finally be yourself.
The Insurance Company Promised a Gender Reassignment. Then They Made a Mistake. | James Joiner | December 29, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTPeople always have to perceive the problems before them, including many unexpected nuances, and decide how to handle them.
And the chord structure, for those of you who play an instrument, is unexpected and worth checking out.
During this time, Mailer also displayed an unexpected humility in the company of his fellow literary stars.
Mailer’s Letters Pack a Punch and a Surprising Degree of Sweetness | Ronald K. Fried | December 14, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTRipperda accompanied this unexpected refusal, with a laboured epistle to his imperial friend.
The Pastor's Fire-side Vol. 3 of 4 | Jane PorterThe wheezy, crazy mechanism of the car went to bits in unexpected places.
The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol | William J. LockeMoney was again required to carry the reeling firm through unexpected difficulties.
Aristide leaped, in his unexpected fashion, from his chair and almost embraced him.
The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol | William J. LockeThe lions stopped also, being evidently taken by surprise at the sudden and unexpected apparition of a man!
Hunting the Lions | R.M. Ballantyne
British Dictionary definitions for unexpected
/ (ˌʌnɪkˈspɛktɪd) /
surprising or unforeseen
Derived forms of unexpected
- unexpectedly, adverb
- unexpectedness, noun
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