What is another word for unexpected?
671 synonyms found
Pronunciation:
[ ˌʌnɛkspˈɛktɪd], [ ˌʌnɛkspˈɛktɪd], [ ˌʌ_n_ɛ_k_s_p_ˈɛ_k_t_ɪ_d]
Related words: unexpected event, unanticipated, unforeseen, unanticipated consequence, unanticipated pregnancy, unanticipated expenses
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Similar words for unexpected:
- abnormal (adjective)
- abrupt (adjective)
- accidental (adjective)
- all (adjective)
- atypic (adjective)
- casual (adjective)
- contingent (adjective)
- curious (adjective)
- different (adjective)
- early (adjective)
- haphazard (adjective)
- impetuous (adjective)
- impulsive (adjective)
- incapable of being imagined (adjective)
- ironic (adjective)
- other relevant words (adjective)
- precipitous/precipitate (adjective)
- sudden (adjective)
- surprising (adjective)
- swift (adjective)
- undevised (adjective)
- undreamed-of (adjective)
- unfamiliar (adjective)
- unforeseeable (adjective)
- unforeseen (adjective)
- unintended (adjective)
- unintentional (adjective)
- unintentional/unintended (adjective)
- unmeant (adjective)
- unordinary (adjective)
- unprepared (adjective)
- unusual (adjective)
- unwonted (adjective)
- early (adverb)
- out of the blue (adverb)
- early (adverb)
- other relevant words (adverb)
- forced (noun)
- other relevant words (noun)
- surprise (noun)
- other synonyms
- prearranged
- other relevant words (noun)
Synonyms for Unexpected:
adj.
• abnormal (adjective)- un expected,
- more heteromorphic,
- un commonest,
- most heteromorphic,
- most off-base,
- more deviate,
- more off base,
- un-orthodox,
- more heteroclite,
- un-commonest,
- off color,
- funnier,
- most heteroclite,
- irregular,
- un commoner,
- most spastic,
- more offbase,
- more off-base,
- oddest,
- un-expected,
- Heteroclite,
- hetero clite,
- offbase,
- un natural,
- extra-ordinary,
- grodier,
- gross,
- out line,
- un-commoner,
- un common,
- most deviate,
- un-common,
- most offbase,
- most off base,
- screwy,
- hetero-clite,
- offcolor,
- off base,
- un orthodox,
- grodiest,
- more spastic,
- un-natural,
- Heteromorphic.
- un ceremonious,
- most unanticipated,
- sur-prising,
- more unanticipated,
- sur prising,
- un anticipated,
- quick,
- un-ceremonious,
- un-anticipated,
- quickest.
- un premeditated,
- offhand,
- most serendipitous,
- in-frequent,
- un-premeditated,
- in frequent,
- more serendipitous.
- unsystematic,
- un conscious,
- Willy nilly,
- un-coordinated,
- dis-organized,
- in-discriminate,
- devil may care,
- fluker,
- more designless,
- most unmethodical,
- un-considered,
- un-systematic,
- un organized,
- dis organized,
- de signless,
- helter skelter,
- un-conscious,
- in discriminate,
- un thinking,
- more unmethodical,
- most designless,
- dis orderly,
- willynilly,
- flukest,
- un-thinking,
- un considered,
- all over map,
- un-concerned,
- de-signless,
- dis-orderly,
- un coordinated,
- un systematic,
- un methodical,
- un-organized,
- unconscious,
- helterskelter,
- un-methodical,
- un concerned.
- unreflecting,
- most subitaneous,
- un-restrained,
- more unreflecting,
- going deep end,
- headlong,
- spur of the moment,
- most unreflecting,
- un bridled,
- going off deep end,
- un reflecting,
- head-long,
- more subitaneous,
- spur-of-the-moment,
- Subitaneous,
- head long,
- un-bridled,
- un-reflecting.
- double-quick,
- not bargained for,
- curious,
- alacritous,
- out of line,
- unmethodical,
- unimagined,
- off top of head,
- haphazard,
- speedball,
- unanticipated,
- without warning,
- unlooked for,
- extra ordinary,
- unaccustomed,
- undreamt of,
- Unmeant,
- impulsive,
- unlooked-for,
- most probably,
- serendipitous,
- undreamt-of,
- supersonic,
- unprepared,
- all over the map,
- uncharacteristic,
- any old way,
- undevised,
- startling,
- like mad,
- undesigned,
- un-ordinary,
- shaking a leg,
- precipitant,
- controlled by,
- unintentional,
- undreamed of,
- abnormal,
- little known,
- contingent,
- uninvestigated,
- unintended,
- unplanned,
- Barrelling,
- off-base,
- like crazy,
- grody,
- impetuous,
- Designless,
- gone off half-cocked,
- casual,
- spastic.
- off the top head,
- jump gun,
- illadvised,
- harumscarum,
- gone half cocked,
- in-discreet,
- off hip,
- gone halfcocked,
- off top head,
- in discreet,
- off the hip,
- off the top of head,
- un controlled,
- gone off half cocked,
- gone off halfcocked,
- un-controlled,
- gone half-cocked,
- harum scarum,
- most precipitate.
- fleet-footed,
- most alacritous,
- shortlived,
- super-sonic,
- more barrelling,
- more fleet-footed,
- ex-press,
- more cracking,
- more fleetfooted,
- shaking leg,
- most fleet-footed,
- most speedball,
- super sonic,
- fleetfooted,
- doublequick,
- more double-quick,
- most fleet footed,
- more fleet footed,
- most double-quick,
- more screaming,
- more speedball,
- fleet footed,
- on double,
- more double quick,
- most supersonic,
- most barrelling,
- in nothing flat,
- most doublequick,
- ex press,
- more alacritous,
- short lived,
- most double quick,
- most cracking,
- most screaming,
- double quick,
- more doublequick,
- most fleetfooted,
- more supersonic.
- more undreamt-of,
- most unimagined,
- un imagined,
- most undreamt of,
- undreamedof,
- undreamtof,
- un-imagined,
- more undreamt of,
- more unimagined,
- most undreamtof,
- more undreamtof,
- most undreamt-of.
- un-explored,
- un explored,
- un-investigated,
- most uninvestigated,
- un familiar,
- un-familiar,
- un investigated,
- re-mote,
- more uninvestigated.
- un-foreseeable,
- unknowable,
- un knowable,
- most unknowable,
- un-knowable,
- more unknowable,
- un foreseeable.
- unlookedfor,
- more unlooked for,
- most unlooked-for,
- more unlookedfor,
- un-foreseen,
- more unlooked-for,
- more surprise,
- most surprise,
- most unlookedfor,
- most unlooked for,
- un foreseen.
- off the top of one's head,
- napping,
- caught off guard,
- taken off guard,
- not prepared,
- unrehearsed,
- unready.
adv.
• early (adverb) • out of the blue (adverb)adv
• early (adverb) • Other relevant words: (adverb)n.
• forced (noun) • Other relevant words: (noun) • surprise (noun)Other synonyms:
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•
- unasked,
- surprisingly,
- accidental,
- outrageous,
- remarkable,
- ironic,
- staggering,
- ironically,
- earth-shattering,
- phenomenal,
- unbidden,
- eye-popping,
- crazily,
- incredibly.
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•
- revealing,
- natural,
- remarkably.
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•
- dramatic,
- incredible.
- unheard-of,
- uncanny,
- indeterminate,
- random,
- occasional,
- undivined,
- arbitrary,
- quaint,
- offbeat,
- fleetly,
- unorthodox,
- uncommon,
- dash,
- unpremeditated,
- approximately,
- pop,
- unsought,
- injure,
- precipitate,
- Uncanvassed,
- kookie,
- constrained,
- circumstantial,
- swiftly,
- innovative,
- novel,
- erratic,
- near,
- bamboozle,
- crash,
- deceive,
- character,
- unpublicized,
- circumvent,
- ordinary,
- rapid,
- mysterious,
- unprecedented,
- unhoped-for,
- prey,
- improbable,
- casualty,
- affect,
- ruggedly,
- unexpectedly,
- exotic,
- original,
- numbing,
- feign,
- dicey,
- incomprehensible,
- unlucky,
- unannounced,
- atypical,
- adventure,
- unsuspected,
- catch unawares,
- fitful,
- exceptional,
- hastily,
- inadvertent,
- rash,
- adventitious,
- unwitting,
- preternatural,
- wondrous,
- loss,
- way out,
- displease,
- dissimulate,
- speedy,
- fanciful,
- strained,
- abruptness,
- break through,
- unscheduled,
- queer,
- impromptu,
- intermittent,
- unfashionable,
- peculiar,
- unawares,
- iffy,
- break,
- coincidental,
- risky,
- stack,
- unexpectedness,
- stupefying,
- accidentally,
- weird,
- infringe,
- hardly,
- roughly,
- unnatural,
- go against,
- outlandish,
- Denaturalized,
- unpredicted,
- chancy,
- offend,
- grotesque,
- fantastic,
- out of character,
- anomalous,
- rudely,
- idiosyncratic,
- amazement,
- fatidic,
- upset,
- turn up,
- suddenness,
- discourteously,
- mislead,
- swift,
- incidental,
- irritate,
- different,
- accident,
- periodic,
- individual,
- sui generis,
- unhoped,
- suddenly,
- mind-blowing,
- from left field,
- stray,
- fluky,
- rapidly,
- impetuously,
- miraculous,
- defraud,
- simulate,
- jut out,
- bohemian,
- untypical,
- Atypic,
- noteworthy,
- payback,
- unordinary,
- freaky,
- sporadic,
- possibility,
- precipitously,
- alarm,
- eccentric,
- funny,
- promptly,
- fantastical,
- unevenly,
- abruptly,
- unparalleled,
- inexplicable,
- all at once,
- freak,
- kinky,
- circumstance,
- unforeseeable,
- speedily,
- far-out,
- kooky,
- assume,
- antic,
- fiercely,
- brisk,
- Unguessed,
- aleatory,
- recherche,
- contravene,
- take by surprise,
- picturesque,
- spasmodic,
- off-the-wall,
- uneven,
- bizarre,
- pretend,
- outre,
- unpredictable,
- unwonted,
- inconceivable,
- unthought,
- mind-boggling,
- freakish,
- coincidence,
- delude,
- snappy,
- unrestrainedly,
- contingency,
- turbulently,
- rare,
- uncaused,
- bent,
- out of the blue,
- one-off,
- aberrant,
- harshly,
- lucky,
- chance,
- disappointing,
- unthought-of,
- nondescript,
- dissemble,
- uncustomary,
- barmy,
- unbelievable,
- Destinal,
- out-of-the-way,
- striking,
- be unexpected,
- eventuality,
- wildly,
- undetermined,
- minute,
- weirdo,
- coarsely,
- unimaginable,
- unheralded,
- chimney,
- one shot,
- fortune,
- violently,
- breakaway,
- fright,
- astonishment,
- unfamiliar,
- cheat,
- defy,
- impossible,
- monstrous,
- not natural,
- causeless,
- deviant,
- strange,
- snapper,
- unadvertised,
- unaccountable,
- yach,
- fatal,
- odd,
- by chance,
- unconventional,
- crudely,
- nonstandard,
- unprovided for,
- unfitting,
- betray,
- rum.
How to use "Unexpected" in context?
discovery
A shocking discovery was made in an unexpected place. A human skeleton was found in a vacant lot in a secluded neighborhood. The police were called to the scene and began their investigations. There was speculation as to how the skeleton got there, but no one had a definitive answer. The police were able to determine that the skeleton was that of a young woman. They were also able to determine that she had died a violent death. The detectives working on the case were surprised to learn that the woman had been missing for over a year. The detectives were able to piece together the timeline of her life and death.
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Equivalence
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Adjective
unannounced, unanticipated, unforeseen, unhoped-for, unpredicted.
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Proper noun, singular
unforeseen.
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Verb, past participle
unanticipated.
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Adjective
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Forward Entailment
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Adjective
expected.
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Verb, past participle
expected.
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Adjective
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Independent
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Adjective
accidental, adventitious, anticipated, astonishing, astounding, casual, dramatic, erratic, extraordinary, fortuitous, inadvertent, predictable, startling, stunning, surprised, uncanny, uncertain, undesired, unintentional, unlikely, unprecedented, untimely, unusual, unwanted, short-notice, sudden-onset.
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Verb, past participle
anticipated, Occurred.
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Adjective
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Other Related
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Adjective
abrupt, sudden, surprising, unforeseeable, unintended, unplanned, unpredictable.
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Proper noun, singular
sudden, unintended, unplanned, unpredictable.
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Adjective
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