UNLOOKED

Definition: UNLOOKED

UNLOOKED

Adjective

1. Not observed or foreseen; unexpected; -- generally with for.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Date "UNLOOKED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references)

Note: Unlooked \Un*looked"\, adjective. [Prefix un- not looked.]. (Websters 1913)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Inexpectation	Unexpected, unanticipated, unpredicted, unlooked for, unforeseen, unhoped for; dropped from the clouds; beyond expectation, contrary to expectation, against expectation, against all expectation; out of one's reckoning; unheard of; (exceptional); startling, surprising; sudden; (instantaneous).
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: UNLOOKED

English words defined with "UNLOOKED": aerial, aeriform, aery, airy ♦ ethereal. (references)

Specialty definitions using "UNLOOKED": Wages. (references)

Title	Author	Quote
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	Nothing could have been more unlooked for, more surprising, and, we must say, more disagreeable.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"UNLOOKED" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "UNLOOKED" is used about 8 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	100%	8	124,375

Expression using "UNLOOKED": unlooked for. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "UNLOOKED": unlooked-at, unlooked-for.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Language		Translations for "UNLOOKED"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		i papritur (abrupt, accidental, precipitate, sudden, surprising, unasked, uncontemplated, undreamed of, undreamt of, unexpected, unforeseen, unhoped, unlooked for, unrehearsed). (various references)

Arabic		‏مفاجئ (abrupt, at sea, flash, like a bolt from the blue, precipitate, snappy, sudden, surprised, surprising, swift, unexpected, unforeseen, unlooked for, unpredicted), ‏غير متوقع (abrogation, fortuitous, sudden, unexpected, unforeseen, unlooked for). (various references)

Bulgarian		неочакван (accidental, emergent, snap, strange, sudden, surprise, surprising, swift, unanticipated, uncontemplated, undreamed of, undreamt of, unexpected, unforeseen, unhoped-for, unlooked for, unrehearsed, unsought, unsuspected), ненадеен (abrupt, sudden, surprise, surprising, unhoped-for, unlooked for, untrustworthy), непредвиден (casual, contingent, fortuitous, unanticipated, uncontemplated, undesigned, unexpected, unforeseen, unlooked for, unthought of), изненадващ (rude, surprise, surprising, unlooked for, unthought of). (various references)

Czech		neoèekávaný (casual, sudden, surprise, unexpected, unhoped-for, unlooked for), nenadálý (sudden, unexpected, unhoped-for, unlooked for), neèekaný (unbidden, unexpected, unhoped-for, unlooked for). (various references)

Finnish		odottamaton (unexpected, unlooked-for), äkkiarvaamaton (unexpected, unforeseen, unlooked-for). (various references)

French		inattendu (unexpected, unlooked for). (various references)

Greek		αναπάντεχοσ (unlooked for), απροσδόκητοσ (abrupt, unexecuted, unexpected, unforeseen, unlooked for, unthought of). (various references)

Hebrew		לא צפוי (unexpected, unlooked for). (various references)

Hungarian		váratlan (abrupt, balk, chance, fortuitous, snap, sudden, to blitzkrieg, to strike oil, unanticipated, uncontemplated, unexpected, unforeseen, unlooked for), mellõzött (unlooked-at, unnoticed). (various references)

Italian		inatteso (unexpected, unlooked for), inaspettato (unexpected, unlooked for). (various references)

Pig Latin		ookedunlay

Portuguese		inesperado (abrupt, accidental, knockdown, sudden, unexpected, unforeseen, unhoped, unlooked-for), imprevisto (contretemps, sudden, surprising, uncontemplated, undesigned, unexpected, unforeseen, unlooked-for, unpredictable). (various references)

Romanian		neprevãzut (extemporaneous, fortuitous, snap, stray, unexpected, unforeseen, unlooked for), neaşteptat (abrupt, snap, sudden, undreamed of, unexpected, unforeseen, unlooked for, wayward). (various references)

Russian		оставленный без внимания (unlooked-at), неожиданный (off-guard, sudden, surprising, uncontemplated, undreamedof, undreamtof, unexpected, unhoped, unlooked for, unlooked-for, unrehearsed, unsuspected, upbeat), непредвиденный (emergency, incalculable, unanticipated, uncontemplated, unexpected, unforeseen, unlooked for, unlooked-for). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		neočekivan (accidental, surprising, unexpected, unlooked for). (various references)

Spanish		inesperado (abrupt, freak, freakish, unexpected, unlooked for). (various references)

Swedish		oväntad (abrupt, unexpected, unlooked for, unsuspected). (various references)

Turkish		umulmadık (improbable, sudden, unexpected, unforeseen, unhoped, unhoped-for, unimagined, unlooked for, unsuspected, unthought of), hesapta olmayan (unlooked for), beklenmedik (abrupt, adventitious, heaven-sent, improbable, snap, sudden, surprise, unannounced, unexpected, unforeseen, unhoped, unhoped-for, unimagined, unlooked for). (various references)

Ukrainian		несподіваний (abrupt, accidental, extempore, helter-skelter, occasional, surprising, unexpected, unhoped, unlooked for, unsuspected). (various references)

Vietnamese		không ngờ (uncontemplated, undreamed-of, undreamt-of, unexpected, unlooked-for, unsuspected, unthought-of), không dè (undesigned, unlooked-for, unthought-of), không chờ đợi (unlooked-for). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Misspellings
	"UNLOOKED" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: unblooded, unlooped, unsoaked. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "d-e-k-l-n-o-o-u"
	-2 letters: leukon, looked, louden, nodule, noodle.
	-3 letters: kendo, loden, looed, nuked, odeon, olden, unled.
	-4 letters: dole, done, duel, duke, dune, dunk, enol, keno, koel, kolo, kudo, kune, leku, lend, leno, leud, lode, lone, look, loon, loud, lude, lune, lunk, neuk, node, noel, nolo, nook, nude, nuke, oleo, unde, undo.
	-5 letters: del, den, doe, dol, don.
	Words containing the letters "d-e-k-l-n-o-o-u"
	+4 letters: unlikelihood.
	+5 letters: unlikelihoods.
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