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unexpected

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  • Stati Uniti//ʌnɪkˈspɛktɪd//

Not expected, anticipated or foreseen.

aggettivo

  1. 1

    Not expected, anticipated or foreseen.

    She was a fat, round little woman, richly apparelled in velvet and lace, […]; and the way she laughed, cackling like a hen, the way she talked to the waiters and the maid,[…]—all these unexpected phenomena impelled one to hysterical mirth, and made one class her with such immortally ludicrous types as Ally Sloper, the Widow Twankey, or Miss Moucher.

    Certainly unexpected. The P[awn] is overprotected to the best taste of a Nimzowitsch devotee, and there seems to be no drastic weakness in White's camp to justify this intrusion.

    But the latest Santa Fe development, while not spurring the Rock Island to any further acceleration, has drawn fire from a totally unexpected quarter.

    The windmill presented unexpected difficulties.

Etimologia

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Germanic *un- Proto-West Germanic *un- Old English un- Middle English un- English un- English expected English unexpected From un- + expected.

sostantivo

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    raroSomeone or something unexpected.

Forme

plurale
unexpecteds
comparativo
more unexpected
superlativo
most unexpected
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