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.
  •abrupt (adjective)
  • un ceremonious,
  • most unanticipated,
  • sur-prising,
  • more unanticipated,
  • sur prising,
  • un anticipated,
  • quick,
  • un-ceremonious,
  • un-anticipated,
  • quickest.
  •accidental (adjective)
  • uncalculated.
  •all (adjective)
  • unexpected.
  •atypic (adjective)
  • un-characteristic,
  • most uncharacteristic,
  • more uncharacteristic,
  • un characteristic.
  •casual (adjective)
  • un premeditated,
  • offhand,
  • most serendipitous,
  • in-frequent,
  • un-premeditated,
  • in frequent,
  • more serendipitous.
  •contingent (adjective)
  • un predictable,
  • more probably,
  • de-pendent,
  • un-predictable,
  • de pendent.
  •curious (adjective)
  • rarest,
  • unique,
  • singular,
  • most novel,
  • puzzling.
  •different (adjective)
  • unusual.
  •early (adjective)
  • soonest.
  •haphazard (adjective)
  • 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.
  •impetuous (adjective)
  • 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.
  •impulsive (adjective)
  • hot and cold,
  • unprompted,
  • gone off deep end,
  • ADLIB,
  • hot-and-cold,
  • ad lib,
  • Unmeditated.
  •incapable of being imagined (adjective)
  • undreamed-of.
  •ironic (adjective)
  • paradoxical,
  • double-edged,
  • wry,
  • uncomplimentary,
  • satiric.
  •Other relevant words: (adjective)
  • 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.
  •precipitous/precipitate (adjective)
  • 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.
  •sudden (adjective)
  • instantaneous,
  • sudden,
  • abrupt,
  • precipitous,
  • immediate,
  • hasty.
  •surprising (adjective)
  • surprising,
  • shocking,
  • astounding,
  • unforeseen,
  • astonishing.
  •swift (adjective)
  • 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.
  •undevised (adjective)
  • un devised,
  • un-devised.
  •undreamed-of (adjective)
  • 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.
  •unfamiliar (adjective)
  • un-explored,
  • un explored,
  • un-investigated,
  • most uninvestigated,
  • un familiar,
  • un-familiar,
  • un investigated,
  • re-mote,
  • more uninvestigated.
  •unforeseeable (adjective)
  • un-foreseeable,
  • unknowable,
  • un knowable,
  • most unknowable,
  • un-knowable,
  • more unknowable,
  • un foreseeable.
  •unforeseen (adjective)
  • 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.
  •unintended (adjective)
  • un intended,
  • un-intended.
  •unintentional (adjective)
  • un intentional,
  • un-intentional.
  •unintentional/unintended (adjective)
  • un witting,
  • un-witting,
  • more unthought,
  • un-thought,
  • un thought,
  • most unthought.
  •unmeant (adjective)
  • un meant,
  • un-meant.
  •unordinary (adjective)
  • un ordinary.
  •unprepared (adjective)
  • off the top of one's head,
  • napping,
  • caught off guard,
  • taken off guard,
  • not prepared,
  • unrehearsed,
  • unready.
  •unusual (adjective)
  • un paralleled,
  • out standing,
  • out-standing,
  • in conceivable,
  • in-conceivable,
  • aweinspiring,
  • in-credible,
  • farout,
  • un-usual,
  • in credible,
  • un usual,
  • un-paralleled,
  • something else,
  • awe inspiring.
  •unwonted (adjective)
  • un wonted,
  • un-wonted.

• adv.

  •early (adverb)
  • pre-maturely,
  • bright early,
  • over soon,
  • be-forehand,
  • on dot,
  • over-soon,
  • ahead time,
  • un-expectedly,
  • un expectedly,
  • be forehand.
  •out of the blue (adverb)
  • out the blue,
  • out blue,
  • out of blue.

• adv

  •early (adverb)
  • a bit previous,
  • bright and early,
  • before long,
  • too soon,
  • with time to spare,
  • in time,
  • in bud,
  • on the dot,
  • on short notice,
  • Oversoon,
  • far ahead,
  • in the bud,
  • in advance,
  • in good time.
  •Other relevant words: (adverb)
  • not predicted,
  • early,
  • unprepared for.

• n.

  •
  • fortuitous,
  • prodigious,
  • eye-opening,
  • sensational,
  • wonderful,
  • coming without previous intimation,
  • extraordinary,
  • not on the books,
  • Uncontemplated,
  • like a bolt from the blue,
  • not in the cards,
  • electrifying,
  • past conjecture,
  • stunning,
  • amazing,
  • coming unaware.
  •forced (noun)
  • forced.
  •Other relevant words: (noun)
  • surprise.
  •surprise (noun)
  • eureka,
  • thunderbolts,
  • bombshells,
  • whammy,
  • eye-openers,
  • eye-opener,
  • curveball,
  • bombshell,
  • thunderbolt,
  • epiphanies,
  • precipitousness,
  • Astoundment.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • unasked,
  • surprisingly,
  • accidental,
  • outrageous,
  • remarkable,
  • ironic,
  • staggering,
  • ironically,
  • earth-shattering,
  • phenomenal,
  • unbidden,
  • eye-popping,
  • crazily,
  • incredibly.
  •
  • revealing,
  • natural,
  • remarkably.
  •
  • dramatic,
  • incredible.
  •prearranged
  • fixed.
  •Other relevant words (noun):
  • 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.

Paraphrases for Unexpected:

• Equivalence

  • Adjective
    unannounced, unpredicted, unhoped-for, unforeseen, unanticipated.
  • Proper noun, singular
    unforeseen.
  • Verb, past participle
    unanticipated.

• Forward Entailment

  • Adjective
    expected.
  • Verb, past participle
    expected.

• Independent

  • Adjective
    unprecedented, unusual, unwanted, accidental, sudden-onset, unintentional, anticipated, short-notice, stunning, undesired, unlikely, astonishing, inadvertent, casual, untimely, surprised, adventitious, astounding, startling, dramatic, predictable, extraordinary, uncanny, fortuitous, erratic, uncertain.
  • Verb, past participle
    Occurred, anticipated.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    unforeseeable, surprising, unpredictable, unintended, abrupt, unplanned, sudden.
  • Proper noun, singular
    unpredictable, unintended, unplanned, sudden.

Antonyms for Unexpected:

• adj.

  • all
    expected.
  • surprising
    planned, slow, deliberate, predictable, intentional, designed.
  • Other antonyms:
    unsurprising, predicted, hoped-for, matter of course, foreseen.