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out of season |
out of shape |
out of sight |
out of sorts |
out of stock |
out of the blue
| out of the ordinary
| out of the question
| out of the running
| out of thin air
| out of this world
out of the blue
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective out of the blue has 1 sense
- out of the blue(s = adj.all) unanticipated, unforeseen, unlooked-for - not anticipated; "unanticipated and disconcerting lines of development"; "unforeseen circumstances"; "a virtue unlooked-for in people so full of energy"; "like a bolt out of the blue"
Adverbial out of the blue has 1 sense
- out of the blue(r = adv.all) unexpectedly - in a way that was not expected; "her brother showed up at the wedding out of the blue"
THESAURUS
out of the blue
extraordinary, improbable, more than expected, out-of-the-way, past expectation, sudden, unannounced, unanticipated, undivined, unexpected, unforeseeable, unforeseen, unguessed, unheralded, unhoped for, unpredictable, unpredicted, unprepared for, without warning
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