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Definition: Unplanned |
UnplannedAdjective1. Without apparent forethought or prompting or planning; "an unplanned economy"; "accepts an unplanned order"; "an unplanned pregnancy"; "unplanned remarks". 2. Not intentional; "an unintended slight"; "an unintentional pun"; "the offense was unintentional"; "an unwitting mistake may be overlooked". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "unplanned" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1907. (references) |
Synonyms: UnplannedSynonyms: unintentional (adj), unwitting (adj). (additional references) |
| Antonym: planned (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Unplanned |
| English words defined with "unplanned": improvisation ♦ mess around, monkey, monkey around, muck about, muck around ♦ potter, putter ♦ spin off ♦ temporary expedient, tinker. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "unplanned": down time ♦ outage time ♦ Pregnancy, Unwanted ♦ unavailability time. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | The Unplanned (1971) Baddiel & Skinner Unplanned Live from London's West End (2001) | |
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Health | Women who wish to use oral contraceptives to prevent pregnancy should discuss this with their doctors, who may be able to prescribe a different kind of antiepileptic medication or suggest other ways of avoiding an unplanned pregnancy. (references) | |
Children | Congo | This practice resulted in both the spread of HIV/AIDS and unwanted, unplanned pregnancies, which are considered social problems. (references) |
Cape Verde | Child abuse and mistreatment, sexual violence against children, and juvenile prostitution are problems, exacerbated by chronic poverty, large unplanned families, and traditionally high levels of emigration of adult men. (references) | |
South Africa | However, the report noted that a number of factors, including unplanned pregnancies, domestic responsibilities (particularly in rural areas), and gender stereotypes, contributed to high drop-out rates and lower secondary school pass rates for girls. (references) | |
Economic History | Bahrain | Thus the government registered an (unplanned) budget surplus in 2000 and looks set to again in 2001. The 2003-2004 budget, including new assumptions on oil prices, will not be published until December 2002. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Unplanned" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Unplanned" is used about 137 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% | 137 | 27,138 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "unplanned": unplanned down time ♦ unplanned outage time ♦ unplanned unavailability time. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "unplanned"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | случаен (accidental, adventitious, adventive, arbitrary, by, casual, chance, facultative, fortuitous, haphazard, hit or miss, hit-and-miss, idle, incidental, long, lucky, occasional, odd, pickup, precarious, promiscuous, random, sporadic, stray, unsystematic), незапланиран. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 计'. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | spredt og tilfaeldigt boligbyggeri (unplanned settlement in the open country), afbrudsfaktor på grund af ikke planlagt vedligeholdelse (unavailability factor of plant due to unplanned maintenance). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | ongeordende uitbreiding van woonwijken (unplanned settlement in the open country), niet-beschikbaarheidspercentage van materieel als gevolg van onvoorzien onderhoud (unavailability factor of plant due to unplanned maintenance). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | ennakoimattomasta huollosta johtuva epäkäytettävyys (unavailability factor of plant due to unplanned maintenance). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | imprévu (unexpected, unforeseeable, unforeseen), galopant (uncontrolled). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | ungeplant, nicht geplant (unscheduled). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ασχεδίαστοσ (planless). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | tempi di indisponibilit per avaria (unplanned down time, unplanned outage time, unplanned unavailability time), proliferazione caotica di abitazioni residenziali (unplanned settlement in the open country), fattore di indisponibilit delle installazioni per manutenzione non programmata (unavailability factor of plant due to unplanned maintenance). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | annedunplay tempo de indisponibilidade não programada (unplanned down time, unplanned outage time, unplanned unavailability time), taxa de indisponibilidade do equipamento por conservação não programada (unavailability factor of plant due to unplanned maintenance), parte não planificada do tempo de indisponibilidade (unplanned down time, unplanned outage time, unplanned unavailability time). (various references) бесплановый (planless). (various references) neplanski (unscheduled), neplaniran (unrehearsed). (various references) tiempo de parada no programada (unplanned down time, unplanned outage time, unplanned unavailability time), porcentaje de indisponibilidad del material por mantenimiento no programado (unavailability factor of plant due to unplanned maintenance), periodo no planificado del tiempo de parada (unplanned down time, unplanned outage time, unplanned unavailability time). (various references) avbrottsfaktor på grund av oplanerat underhåll (unavailability factor of plant due to unplanned maintenance). (various references) plansız (planless, structureless, unmethodical, unsystematic). (various references) không có kế hoạch. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | inconditus. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
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"Unplanned" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: unbland. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "unplanned" (pronounced unpla"nd) |
| 5 | -p l a" n d | planned. |
| 4 | -l a" n d | bland, gland, land, meadowland. |
| 3 | -a" n d | and, band, banned, brand, canned, command, demand, disband, expand, fanned, firsthand, grand, hand, manned, misunderstand, offhand, outmanned, panned, rand, remand, sand, scanned, spanned, stand, strand, tanned, understand, unmanned, withstand. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-l-n-n-n-p-u" | |
-2 letters: planned, unladen. | |
-3 letters: duenna, panned, planed, punned, unlade, unlead, upland. | |
-4 letters: annul, duple, eland, laden, naled, padle, paled, paned, panel, panne, pedal, penal, penna, plane, plead, plena, puled, ulnad, ulnae, ulpan, unled, unpen, upend. | |
-5 letters: aped, auld, dale, deal, dean, dual, duel, dune, dupe, elan, lade, land, lane, laud, lead, lean, leap, lend, leud. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)55 6E 70 6C 61 6E 6E 65 64 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)..- -. .--. .-.. .- -. -. . -.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010101 01101110 01110000 01101100 01100001 01101110 01101110 01100101 01100100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)U n p l a n n e d |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0055 006E 0070 006C 0061 006E 006E 0065 0064 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)558082786780807170 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Quotations: Non-fiction 7. Usage Frequency 8. Expressions | 9. Expressions: Internet 10. Translations: Modern 11. Translations: Ancient 12. Derivations | 13. Rhymes 14. Anagrams 15. Orthography 16. Bibliography |
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