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English
Etymology
un- + expected
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Adjective
unexpected (comparative more unexpected, superlative most unexpected)
- Not expected, anticipated or foreseen.
1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter II, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC: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.
1940 May, “Overseas Railways: Acceleration Proceeds in U.S.A.”, in Railway Magazine, page 298:But the latest Santa Fe development, while not spurring the Rock Island to any further acceleration, has drawn fire from a totally unexpected quarter.
1943 November – 1944 February (date written; published 1945 August 17), George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], Animal Farm , London: Secker & Warburg, published May 1962, →OCLC:The windmill presented unexpected difficulties.
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not expected, anticipated or foreseen
- Arabic: مُفَاجِئ m (mufājiʔ)
- Armenian: անսպասելի (hy) (anspaseli), անակնկալ (hy) (anaknkal)
- Asturian: inesperáu
- Azerbaijani: gözlənilməz (az)
- Belarusian: нечака́ны (nječakány), неспадзява́ны (njespadzjavány), рапто́ўны (raptóŭny) (sudden)
- Bulgarian: неоча́кван (bg) (neočákvan)
- Catalan: inesperat
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 意外的 (zh) (yìwài de)
- Czech: nečekaný (cs), neočekávaný
- Danish: uventet
- Dutch: onverwacht (nl)
- Esperanto: neatendita
- Finnish: odottamaton (fi)
- French: inattendu (fr), imprévu (fr), inopiné (fr)
- Galician: inesperado
- German: unerwartet (de)
- Greek: αναπάντεχος (el) (anapántechos), απροσδόκητος (el) (aprosdókitos), απρόοπτος (el) (apróoptos)
- Hungarian: váratlan (hu)
- Icelandic: óvæntur
- Italian: inaspettato (it), insperato (it), inatteso (it), improvviso (it)
- Japanese: 予想外の (ja) (yosōgai no), 想定外の (ja) (sōteigai no), 意外な (ja) (igai na)
- Latin: subitus, repens, necopīnātus
- Luxembourgish: onerwaart
- Macedonian: неочекуван (neočekuvan)
- Malayalam: അപ്രതീക്ഷിതം (ml) (apratīkṣitaṁ)
- Manx: neuyerkit
- Maori: matawhawhati, whakaohorere, whawhati tata
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: uventet, uventa
- Nynorsk: uventa
- Polish: nieoczekiwany (pl)
- Portuguese: inesperado (pt)
- Romanian: neașteptat (ro), neprevăzut (ro), neanticipat
- Russian: неожи́данный (ru) (neožídannyj), нежда́нный (ru) (neždánnyj)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: неочѐкӣва̄н
- Roman: neočèkīvān (sh)
- Slovak: nečakaný, neočakávaný
- Slovene: nepričakovan
- Spanish: inesperado (es), inopinado (es)
- Swedish: oväntad (sv)
- Turkish: beklenmedik (tr), umulmadık (tr)
- Ukrainian: несподі́ваний (nespodívanyj), неочі́куваний (neočíkuvanyj), нежда́ний (neždányj), рапто́вий (raptóvyj) (sudden)
- Vietnamese: bất ngờ (vi)
- Welsh: annisgwyl (cy)
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Noun
unexpected (plural unexpecteds)
- (rare) Someone or something unexpected.
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