Antonyms for unexpected
ˌʌn ɪkˈspɛk tɪdun·ex·pect·ed

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1. unexpectedadjective

   Antonyms:
   expected

2. unexpectedadjective

   Antonyms:
   expected

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1. unexpected

   Antonyms:
   imminent, impending, threatening

   Synonyms:
   chimerical, contingent, doubtful, improbable, problematical, unlikely

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1. unexpected

   Antonyms:
   expected, provided for, foreseen

   Synonyms:
   unforeseen, unlocked for, sudden

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1. unexpectedadjective

   not expected or anticipated

   "unexpected guests"; "unexpected news"

   Antonyms:
   expected, matter-of-course, expectable, anticipated, due(p), awaited(p), hoped-for

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1. unexpectedadjective

   Synonyms:
   unforeseen, unanticipated, unlooked for

How to use unexpected in a sentence?

1. Kathleen Norris:

   None of us knows what the next change is going to be, what unexpected opportunity is just around the corner, waiting a few months or a few years to change all the tenor of our lives.

2. Adam Lampe:

   The The Fed risks losing the perception of The Fed independence if The Fed doesn't fight inflation, an unexpected rise in inflation could be a risk.

3. Anthony Fauci:

   The emergence of the AIDS pandemic and my decision to embrace change transformed my professional career, if not my entire life, please believe me that you will confront the same types of unpredictable events that I've experienced regardless of what directions your careers or your lives take. And so, expect the unexpected and, when you can, meet the challenge and seize the relevant opportunities as they arise.

4. Masaru Ibuka:

   Creativity comes from looking for the unexpected and stepping outside your own experience.

5. Joseph Addison:

   Laughter, while it lasts, slackens and unbraces the mind, weakens the faculties and causes a kind of remissness and dissolution in all the powers of the soul; and thus it may be looked on as weakness in the composition of human nature. But if we consider the frequent reliefs we receive from it and how often it breaks the gloom which is apt to depress the mind and damp our spirits, with transient, unexpected gleams of joy, one would take care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life.

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