Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Not expected; unforeseen.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Not looked for; unexpected.
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- adjective Not
expected oranticipated ;unforeseen
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective not anticipated
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Examples
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Where the words are singular, to make them plural is the mark of unlooked-for passion; and where they are plural, the rounding of a number of things into a fine-sounding singular is surprising owing to the converse change.
Archive 2010-03-01 Hal Duncan 2010
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Sir Patrick said his knighthood – announced in the New Year Honours List – had been “an unlooked-for honour”.
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Where the words are singular, to make them plural is the mark of unlooked-for passion; and where they are plural, the rounding of a number of things into a fine-sounding singular is surprising owing to the converse change.
On the Sublime Hal Duncan 2010
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It is a story of the seamy underside of respectability and conformity, and of the discovery of unlooked-for courage.
Write to your MEP - now, today! papersky 2008
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The cart is an unlooked-for chance—we ought to take it and go… but that would leave these two old fellows to raise the alarm.
The Mistaken Wife Rose Melikan 2010
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A challenge in which Darth's wife face functioned as his target naturally had given him an unlooked-for advantage.
Tallulah Morehead: Survivor: Heroes vs Villains : The Tin-Brained Woodman is Rusty. 2010
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A challenge in which Darth's wife face functioned as his target naturally had given him an unlooked-for advantage.
Tallulah Morehead: Survivor: Heroes vs Villains: The Tin-Brained Woodman is Rusty. 2010
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But the running, the running has stayed with me: The lovely, unlooked-for side effect of fear.
Runners Jack Canfield 2010
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Once, after over a decade of uninterrupted victories which began in 1996 at the age of twenty-one, he was asked to explain an unlooked-for failure in a major championship.
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The cart is an unlooked-for chance—we ought to take it and go… but that would leave these two old fellows to raise the alarm.
The Mistaken Wife Rose Melikan 2010
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