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unlooked-for
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective unlooked-for has 1 sense
- unlooked-for(s = adj.all) out of the blue, unanticipated, unforeseen - 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"
CIDE DICTIONARY
unlooked-for, a.
Not looked for; unexpected; as, an unlooked-for event. [1913 Webster]
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