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unexpected
[ uhn-ik-spek-tid ]
unexpected
/ ˌʌnɪkˈspɛktɪd /
adjective
- surprising or unforeseen
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Derived Forms
- ˌunexˈpectedly, adverb
- ˌunexˈpectedness, noun
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Other Words From
- un·ex·pect·ed·ly adverb
- un·ex·pect·ed·ness noun
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Word History and Origins
Origin of unexpected1
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Synonym Study
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Example Sentences
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.
People 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.
Ripperda accompanied this unexpected refusal, with a laboured epistle to his imperial friend.
The wheezy, crazy mechanism of the car went to bits in unexpected places.
Money 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 lions stopped also, being evidently taken by surprise at the sudden and unexpected apparition of a man!
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