Unforeseen

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Unforeseen \Unforeseen\
     See {foreseen}.

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  unforeseen


       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}, {unlooked-for},
               {out of the blue(p)}]
       2: happening or coming quickly and without warning; "a sudden
          unexpected development" [syn: {unexpected}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  57 Moby Thesaurus words for "unforeseen":
     abrupt, accidental, adventitious, aleatory, casual, causeless,
     chance, chancy, contingent, destinal, dicey, electrifying,
     extraordinary, fatal, fatidic, fluky, fortuitous, hasty, headlong,
     iffy, impetuous, improbable, impulsive, incidental, indeterminate,
     more than expected, nerve-shattering, out-of-the-way,
     past expectation, precipitant, precipitate, precipitous, quick,
     risky, shocking, speedy, startling, sudden, surprise, surprising,
     swift, unannounced, unanticipated, uncaused, undetermined,
     undivined, unexpected, unforeseeable, unguessed, unheralded,
     unhoped for, unlooked-for, unpredictable, unpredicted,
     unprepared for, unsought, without warning