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UNLOOKED FOR

Synonyms within Context: UNLOOKED FOR

ContextSynonyms 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.

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Crosswords: UNLOOKED FOR

English words defined with "UNLOOKED FOR": aerial, aeriform, aery, airyethereal. (references)
Specialty definitions using "UNLOOKED FOR": Wages. (references)

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Use in Literature: UNLOOKED FOR

TitleAuthorQuote

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.

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Modern Translation: UNLOOKED FOR

Language Translations for "UNLOOKED FOR"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

i papritur (abrupt, accidental, precipitate, sudden, surprising, unasked, uncontemplated, undreamed of, undreamt of, unexpected, unforeseen, unhoped, unrehearsed). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

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

   

Bulgarian 

  

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

   

Czech

  

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

   

French

  

inattendu (unexpected). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

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

   

Hebrew 

  

לא צפוי (unexpected). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

váratlan (abrupt, balk, chance, fortuitous, snap, sudden, to blitzkrieg, to strike oil, unanticipated, uncontemplated, unexpected, unforeseen). (various references)

   

Italian

  

inatteso (unexpected), inaspettato (unexpected). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ookedunlay orfay

   

Romanian

  

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

   

Russian 

  

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

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

neočekivan (accidental, surprising, unexpected). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

inesperado (abrupt, freak, freakish, unexpected). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

oväntad (abrupt, unexpected, unsuspected). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

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

   

Ukrainian

  

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

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: UNLOOKED FOR

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

insperatus. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Anagrams: UNLOOKED FOR

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "d-e-f-k-l-n-o-o-o-r-u"

-3 letters: flounder, onlooker, unfolder, unforked, unroofed.

-4 letters: flooder, floored, floured, flunked, flunker, fondler, fordone, founder, knurled, odorful, onefold, reflood, refound, roundel, runkled.

-5 letters: dolour, dunker, enduro, enfold, fluked, folder, fonder, fondle, fondue, fooled, foredo, forked, fouled, fouler, funked, funker, furled, leukon, looked, looker, louden, louder, loured, lunker, lurked, nodule, noodle, nurled, refold, refund, relook.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Quotations: Fiction
3. Translations: Modern
4. Translations: Ancient
5. Anagrams
6. Bibliography


  

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