Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Not expected or anticipated: rare except in the phrase unlooked for.
Wiktionary
- adj. Not checked, not looked over.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Not observed or foreseen; unexpected; -- generally with
for .
Examples
“Here is a passage which illustrates effectively the kind of unlooked-for obstacle that beset the surveyor's path: --”
“Sir Patrick said his knighthood – announced in the New Year Honours List – had been “an unlooked-for honour”.”
“Arriving unlooked for and unwanted, within two days we had made more false steps, more errors of judgement and more enemies than I would have believed possible.”
“For most of us, Winter respite comes in the form of a heart, that sentimental keepsake, that unlooked for display of affection, candlelight and a glass of champagne warming us up halfway through this otherwise cold, snowbound, steely gray month.”
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“Where the words are singular, to make them plural is the mark of unlooked-for passion; and where they are plural, the rounding of a number of things into a fine-sounding singular is surprising owing to the converse change.”
“When magic blossomed unlooked for and unexpected from peasant hovels to castle solars?”
“Yesterday, an hour before my time of setting out, an old friend from the Country unlooked for; paid me a visit, and, I beg you will regard the circumstance as one of those which may plead some excuse for my failure in calling on you, which must be postponed till some other opportunity.”
“The end is not implausible, not unlooked for, not unsatisfying, but I found it awkward to encounter a cliffhanger for all that the novel is fraught with a sense of doom throughout.”
“But "Under Heaven" serves as a reminder that even a longtime reader can still be surprised by Kay, who brings new gifts, unlooked for, when the "usual" would have been more than enough to satisfy.”
“Once, after over a decade of uninterrupted victories which began in 1996 at the age of twenty-one, he was asked to explain an unlooked-for failure in a major championship.”
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