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| 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 FOR |
| English words defined with "UNLOOKED FOR": aerial, aeriform, aery, airy ♦ ethereal. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "UNLOOKED FOR": 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. | ||
| 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 neprevãzut (extemporaneous, fortuitous, snap, stray, unexpected, unforeseen), neaşteptat (abrupt, snap, sudden, undreamed of, unexpected, unforeseen, wayward). (various references) 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) neočekivan (accidental, surprising, unexpected). (various references) inesperado (abrupt, freak, freakish, unexpected). (various references) oväntad (abrupt, unexpected, unsuspected). (various references) 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) несподіваний (abrupt, accidental, extempore, helter-skelter, occasional, surprising, unexpected, unhoped, unsuspected). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | insperatus. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
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. | |
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| 1. Crosswords 2. Quotations: Fiction 3. Translations: Modern 4. Translations: Ancient | 5. Anagrams 6. Bibliography |
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