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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (1)

1. not anticipated;
- Example: "unanticipated and disconcerting lines of development"- H.W.Glidden
- Example: "unforeseen circumstances"
- Example: "a virtue unlooked-for in people so full of energy"
- Example: "like a bolt out of the blue"
[syn: unanticipated, unforeseen, unlooked-for, out of the blue(p)]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Unlooked-for \Un*looked"-for\, a. Not looked for; unexpected; as, an unlooked-for event. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

unlooked-for adj 1: not anticipated; "unanticipated and disconcerting lines of development"- H.W.Glidden; "unforeseen circumstances"; "a virtue unlooked-for in people so full of energy"; "like a bolt out of the blue" [syn: unanticipated, unforeseen, unlooked-for, out of the blue(p)]