Science and technology have come to pervade every aspect of our lives and, as a result, society is changing at a speed which is quite unprecedented.
Source: tatoeba (23992)
Unprecedented
//ʌnˈpɹɛsɪdɛntɪd//
Synonyms for "unprecedented" (55 found)
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Closest matches (11)
Strong matches (17)
Related words (27)
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Antonyms
1 entriesderived from
1 entriesrelated to
1 entriessimilar
3 entriesTranslations
58 translations across 31 languages.
Arabic
1 entries- غَيْر مَسْبُوق adj (never before seen or done, without precedent)
Belarusian
1 entries- беспрэцэдэ́нтны adj (never before seen or done, without precedent)
Bengali
1 entries- অপূর্ব adj (never before seen or done, without precedent)
Bulgarian
1 entries- безпрецеде́нтен adj (never before seen or done, without precedent)
Chinese Mandarin
3 entries- 前所未有 adj (never before seen or done, without precedent)
- 史無前例 /史无前例 adj (never before seen or done, without precedent)
- 空前的 adj (never before seen or done, without precedent)
Czech
2 entries- bezprecedentní adj (never before seen or done, without precedent)
- bezpříkladný adj (never before seen or done, without precedent)
Dutch
3 entries- ongekend adj (never before seen or done, without precedent)
- onuitgegeven adj (never before seen or done, without precedent)
- zonder precedent adj (never before seen or done, without precedent)
Esperanto
1 entries- senprecedenca adj (never before seen or done, without precedent)
Finnish
2 entries- ennen kokematon adj (never before seen or done, without precedent)
- ennennäkemätön adj (never before seen or done, without precedent)
French
3 entries- inouï adj (never before seen or done, without precedent)
- inédit adj (never before seen or done, without precedent)
- sans précédent adj (never before seen or done, without precedent)
Georgian
2 entries- უმაგალითო adj (never before seen or done, without precedent)
- უპრეცედენტო adj (never before seen or done, without precedent)
German
2 entries- beispiellos adj (never before seen or done, without precedent)
- nie da gewesen adj (never before seen or done, without precedent)
Greek
1 entries- άνευ προηγουμένου adj (never before seen or done, without precedent)
Hebrew
1 entries- חֲסַר תַּקְדִּים adj (never before seen or done, without precedent)
Hungarian
3 entries- példa nélkül álló adj (never before seen or done, without precedent)
- példa nélküli adj (never before seen or done, without precedent)
- példátlan adj (never before seen or done, without precedent)
Italian
1 entries- senza precedenti adj (never before seen or done, without precedent)
Japanese
2 entries- 前例のない adj (never before seen or done, without precedent)
- 空前 adj (never before seen or done, without precedent)
Korean
1 entries- 전례없는 adj (never before seen or done, without precedent)
Latin
1 entries- inaudītus adj (never before seen or done, without precedent)
Lithuanian
1 entries- negirdėtas adj (never before seen or done, without precedent)
Norwegian Bokmål
2 entries- uovertruffen adj (never before seen or done, without precedent)
- uten sidestykke adj (never before seen or done, without precedent)
Old English
1 entries- unfōrescēawod adj (never before seen or done, without precedent)
Persian
1 entries- بیسابقه adj (never before seen or done, without precedent)
Polish
1 entries- bezprecedensowy adj (never before seen or done, without precedent)
Portuguese
2 entries- inaudito adj (never before seen or done, without precedent)
- sem precedentes adj (never before seen or done, without precedent)
Russian
1 entries- беспрецеде́нтный adj (never before seen or done, without precedent)
Spanish
3 entries- inaudito adj (never before seen or done, without precedent)
- inédito adj (never before seen or done, without precedent)
- sin precedente[s] adj (never before seen or done, without precedent)
Swedish
4 entries- exempellös adj (never before seen or done, without precedent)
- makalös adj (never before seen or done, without precedent)
- oöverträffad adj (never before seen or done, without precedent)
- utan like adj (never before seen or done, without precedent)
Turkish
4 entries- emsali olmayan adj (never before seen or done, without precedent)
- emsalsiz adj (never before seen or done, without precedent)
- eşi benzeri görülmemiş adj (never before seen or done, without precedent)
- eşi görülmemiş adj (never before seen or done, without precedent)
Ukrainian
3 entries- безпрецеде́нтний adj (never before seen or done, without precedent)
- безпри́кладний adj (never before seen or done, without precedent)
- небува́лий adj (never before seen or done, without precedent)
Zazaki
1 entries- bêemsal adj (never before seen or done, without precedent)
Sample sentences
12 total sentences available.
Learning lessons from Europe, Japan has to switch its economic-oriented policy to a consumer-conscious one, in order to cope with the coming unprecedented aging society towards the 21st century.
Source: tatoeba (25657)
The unprecedented drought did severe damage to the wheat harvest.
Source: tatoeba (273644)
The Tokyo stock market recorded an unprecedented loss.
Source: tatoeba (279829)
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