unexpected
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Audio (US) (file) - (US) IPA(key): /ʌnɪkˈspɛktɪd/
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unexpected (comparative more unexpected, superlative most unexpected)
- Not expected, anticipated or foreseen.
- 1918, W. B. Maxwell, chapter 2, in The Mirror and the Lamp:
- She was a fat, round little woman, richly apparelled in velvet and lace, […]; and the way she laughed, cackling like a hen, the way she talked to the waiters and the maid, […]—all these unexpected phenomena impelled one to hysterical mirth, and made one class her with such immortally ludicrous types as Ally Sloper, the Widow Twankey, or Miss Moucher.
- 1945 August 17, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter 6, in Animal Farm: A Fairy Story, London: Secker & Warburg, OCLC 3655473:
- The windmill presented unexpected difficulties.
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not expected, anticipated or foreseen
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