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UNFORESEEN
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Not anticipated
Example:
unseen problems
Synonyms:
out of the blue; unanticipated; unforeseen; unlooked-for; unseen
Classified under:
Similar:
unexpected (not expected or anticipated)
Context examples:
Supposing that this unhappy young man’s story were absolutely true, then what hellish thing, what absolutely unforeseen and extraordinary calamity could have occurred between the time when he parted from his father, and the moment when, drawn back by his screams, he rushed into the glade?
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Why, all the morning he was saying to me that, whatever happened, I was to be true; and that even if something quite unforeseen occurred to separate us, I was always to remember that I was pledged to him, and that he would claim his pledge sooner or later.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
