Synonyms for unexpectedly
un·ex·pect·ed·ly

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1. unexpectedlyadverb

   Antonyms:
   expectedly

2. unexpectedlyadverb

   Antonyms:
   expectedly

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1. unexpectedly, out of the blueadverb

   in a way that was not expected

   "her brother showed up at the wedding out of the blue"

   Synonyms:
   circumstantially, accidentally, out of the blue, by chance

2. by chance, accidentally, circumstantially, unexpectedlyadverb

   without advance planning

   "they met accidentally"

   Synonyms:
   by luck, incidentally, unintentionally, accidentally, circumstantially, perchance, by chance, out of the blue, haply, minutely

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1. List of paraphrases for "unexpectedly":

   suddenly, abruptly, surprisingly, sharply

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How to use unexpectedly in a sentence?

1. Joseph Campbell:

   Life is like arriving late for a movie, having to figure out what was going on without bothering everybody with a lot of questions, and then being unexpectedly called away before you find out how it ends.

2. Pere Miro:

   Unexpectedly what happened three weeks later, the government of Kuwait, not the negotiators who had disappeared, sent to The United Nations a new proposal that had nothing to do with our discussions, we could not accept that.

3. Lucy Flores:

   Very unexpectedly and out of nowhere, I feel Joe Biden put Joe Biden hands on my shoulders, get up very close to me from behind, lean in, smell my hair and then plant a slow kiss on the top of my head.

4. D. H. Lawrence:

   Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

5. David Grayson:

   I sometimes think we expect too much of Christmas Day. We try to crowd into it the long arrears of kindliness and humanity of the whole year. As for me, I like to take my Christmas a little at a time, all through the year. And thus I drift along into the holidays--let them overtake me unexpectedly--waking up some fine morning and suddenly saying to myself Why this is Christmas Day