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Unexpected

//ʌnɪkˈspɛktɪd// adj, noun

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Not expected, anticipated or foreseen.

    "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."

Adjective
  1. 1
    not expected or anticipated wordnet
Noun
  1. 1
    Someone or something unexpected. rare

Etymology

Etymology 1

From un- + expected.

Etymology 2

From un- + expected.

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