unguessed
Americanadjective
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too mysterious or inconceivable to guess.
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not anticipated or foreseen; coming as a surprise.
Example Sentences
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Photographs of the back or hidden side of the moon may prove quite unexciting, or they may reveal some spectacular new feature now unguessed.
From Time Magazine Archive
Sheer rose the dreadful cliffs to unguessed heights on either side.
From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien
In this great play the scenes are shifted by unknown forces, and the commencement, plot and end are still unknown—are still unguessed.
From The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 12 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Miscellany by Robert Green Ingersoll
In the disordered mental state of our arrival I had for some unguessed reason taken out my pocket-case and laid it there with the other items.
From The Ship Dwellers A Story of a Happy Cruise by Albert Bigelow Paine
"And the past and the future both are met In the present's history; For the thread I hold is unbroken yet, And the thing I weave is unguessed at yet, In this human tapestry."
From The Deluge and Other Poems by John Presland
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