unanticipated

The word “unanticipated” has 6 syllables: un-an-tic-i-pat-ed

It's pronounced as /ʌnˈæn.tɪ.sɪˌpeɪ.tɪd/


What is synonym and antonym for unanticipated?

In the thesaurus, “unanticipated” has 114 synonyms and 42 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for unanticipated along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for unanticipated

  • a bit previous
  • abortive
  • abrupt
  • accidental
  • amazing
  • astonishing
  • breakneck
  • brief
  • casual
  • chance
  • controlled by
  • dependent
  • early on
  • electrifying
  • embryonic
  • extraordinary
  • eye-opening
  • fluky
  • fortuitous
  • forward
  • frantic
  • from left field
  • gone off half-cocked
  • green
  • haphazard
  • harum-scarum
  • hasty
  • headlong
  • heedless
  • hurried
  • ill-advised
  • immature
  • impatient
  • impetuous
  • improbable
  • impulsive
  • incidental
  • incomplete
  • inconceivable
  • indiscreet
  • inopportune
  • instantaneous
  • jerky
  • jump the gun
  • likely
  • madcap
  • not bargained for
  • not in the cards
  • not predicted
  • odd
  • off the hip
  • off the top of head
  • out of the blue
  • overearly
  • oversoon
  • payback
  • plunging
  • precipitant
  • precipitate
  • precipitous
  • predeveloped
  • previous
  • probable
  • probably
  • prodigious
  • quick
  • random
  • rapid
  • rash
  • raw
  • reckless
  • refractory
  • remarkable
  • rushing
  • shocking
  • soon
  • staggering
  • startling
  • stunning
  • subitaneous
  • subject to
  • sudden
  • surprise
  • surprising
  • swift
  • unannounced
  • uncalculated
  • unceremonious
  • uncertain
  • uncontrolled
  • undeveloped
  • undisclosed
  • undreamt-of
  • unexpected
  • unfledged
  • unforeseeable
  • unforeseen
  • unheralded
  • unimagined
  • unintended
  • unlikely
  • unlooked-for
  • unplanned
  • unpredictable
  • unpredicted
  • unprepared for
  • unpublished
  • unripe
  • untimely
  • violent
  • willful
  • withheld
  • without warning
  • wonderful

Antonyms for unanticipated

  • announced
  • anticipated
  • at ease
  • backward
  • calm
  • careful
  • cautious
  • celebrated
  • certain
  • definite
  • delayed
  • deliberate
  • designed
  • essential
  • expansive
  • expected
  • foreseen
  • glorified
  • gradual
  • intentional
  • kind
  • late
  • lazy
  • leisurely
  • mature
  • nice
  • normal
  • ordinary
  • overdue
  • planned
  • predictable
  • predicted
  • prepared
  • prophesied
  • real
  • recognized
  • slow
  • sure
  • truthful
  • unconditional
  • unsurprising
  • usual

Meanings of unanticipated

  • adjective
    1. Not anticipated.

Example Sentences

  • The project faced unanticipated delays due to unexpected weather conditions.
  • Despite their careful planning, they were met with an unanticipated problem during the event.
  • The unanticipated expenses put a strain on their budget for the quarter.
  • Her speech was interrupted by an unanticipated power outage in the building.
  • The team scrambled to come up with a solution to the unanticipated technical glitch before the presentation.

On this page you'll find 156 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to unanticipated, such as: a bit previous, abortive, abrupt, accidental, amazing, announced, anticipated.

Make sure to choose synonyms and antonyms that are appropriate for the context of the sentence.

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  • intoxicating
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  • invigorating
  • inviting
  • irresistible
  • jazzy
  • juiced
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  • large
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  • lofty
  • loud
  • lovable
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  • lurid
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  • mad
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  • magnetizing
  • magnificent
  • marked
  • mellow
  • melodramatic
  • memorable
  • mesmerizing
  • mind-bending
  • mind-blowing
  • mind-boggling
  • miraculous
  • motivating
  • motor-driven
  • moving
  • neat
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  • noisy
  • not bargained for
  • not in the cards
  • noteworthy
  • noticeable
  • orotund
  • out of the blue
  • out of the ordinary
  • outstanding
  • overpowering
  • overwhelming
  • payback
  • peppy
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  • pleasant
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  • power-driven
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  • rotund
  • round
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  • scandalous
  • seducing
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  • sensational
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  • sensitive
  • shivering
  • shocking
  • showy
  • signal
  • singular
  • sonorant
  • sonorous
  • sound
  • sparkling
  • spectacular
  • spellbinding
  • spine-chilling
  • spine-tingling
  • spirited
  • staggering
  • startling
  • stentorian
  • stimulating
  • stirring
  • strident
  • striking
  • stunning
  • sudden
  • sultry
  • surprising
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  • sweet
  • swift
  • swinging
  • tabloid
  • tantalizing
  • telling
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  • tense
  • terrifying
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  • thought-provoking
  • thrilling
  • throbbing
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  • tragic
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  • trembling
  • turning on
  • unanticipated
  • unforeseen
  • unheralded
  • unlooked-for
  • unpredictable
  • unpredicted
  • unusual
  • vibrant
  • vigorous
  • virile
  • vital
  • vitalizing
  • vivacious
  • vivid
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  • voltaic
  • vulgar
  • wild
  • winning
  • winsome
  • without warning
  • wonderful
  • wondrous
  • zero cool
  • zestful
  • zesty
  • zippy

jolting

  • affrighting
  • agitating
  • alarming
  • alaruming
  • amazing
  • appalling
  • astonishing
  • astounding
  • awesome
  • awful
  • awing
  • beating
  • befuddling
  • bewildering
  • blast
  • blindsiding
  • blow
  • bounce
  • bouncy
  • bowling over
  • breathtaking
  • bucketing
  • bucking
  • buffeting
  • bump
  • bumping
  • bumpy
  • chattering
  • chilling
  • clash
  • clout
  • collision
  • confounding
  • confusing
  • conspicuous
  • convulsing
  • convulsive
  • crack
  • crash
  • crushing
  • daunting
  • demoralizing
  • discomfiting
  • discomforting
  • discomposing
  • disconcerting
  • disgusting
  • dismaying
  • dispiriting
  • displeasing
  • disquieting
  • distressing
  • disturbing
  • doddering
  • dragging
  • dumbfounding
  • dumfounding
  • emasculating
  • extraordinary
  • eye-opening
  • fabulous
  • fitful
  • flabbergasting
  • flickering
  • flooring
  • fluctuating
  • flustering
  • fluttering
  • frightening
  • frighting
  • grabbing
  • heart-stopping
  • hit
  • hitching
  • hoicking
  • horrifying
  • impact
  • impressive
  • incomprehensible
  • inconceivable
  • incredible
  • injury
  • jar
  • jarring
  • jaw-dropping
  • jerking
  • jigging
  • jiggling
  • jogging
  • joggling
  • jolt
  • jounce
  • jouncing
  • juddering
  • knocking for a loop
  • lugging
  • lurching
  • marvellous
  • marvelous
  • miraculous
  • muddling
  • nauseating
  • nonplusing
  • nonplussing
  • notable
  • noticeable
  • offending
  • oscillating
  • outraging
  • outstanding
  • overpowering
  • overwhelming
  • palpitating
  • panicking
  • paroxysmal
  • perplexing
  • perturbing
  • phenomenal
  • pit-a-patting
  • pitching
  • pitter-pattering
  • plucking
  • portentous
  • pounding
  • prodigious
  • pulling
  • pulsating
  • pulsing
  • punch
  • quaking
  • quavering
  • quivering
  • rare
  • remarkable
  • repelling
  • revolting
  • ripping
  • rocking
  • rough
  • scandalizing
  • scarifying
  • scaring
  • sensational
  • shaking
  • shaking up
  • shaky
  • shivering
  • shock
  • shocking
  • shuddering
  • sickening
  • singular
  • snatching
  • spasmodic
  • spectacular
  • spooking
  • staggering
  • startling
  • striking
  • stunning
  • stupefying
  • stupendous
  • sublime
  • surprising
  • swaying
  • swinging
  • tearing
  • terrifying
  • terrorizing
  • thrilling
  • throbbing
  • trauma
  • trembling
  • tremulous
  • tugging
  • turning off
  • tweaking
  • twitching
  • twitchy
  • unannounced
  • unanticipated
  • unbelievable
  • uncommon
  • uncontrollable
  • undoing
  • undulating
  • unexpected
  • unforeseen
  • unimaginable
  • unique
  • unlikely
  • unmanning
  • unnerving
  • unsettling
  • unstringing
  • unthinkable
  • unusual
  • unwonted
  • upsetting
  • vibrating
  • wabbling
  • wavering
  • waving
  • weirding out
  • wobbling
  • wonderful
  • wondrous
  • wrenching
  • wresting
  • wringing
  • yanking

abruptly

  • all of a sudden
  • directly
  • fast
  • full tilt
  • hastily
  • immediately
  • impetuously
  • impulsively
  • incontinently
  • instantaneously
  • instantly
  • on a sudden
  • posthaste
  • precipitously
  • promptly
  • pronto
  • quick
  • quickly
  • rapidly
  • rashly
  • readily
  • recklessly
  • right
  • right away
  • right off
  • short
  • snappily
  • speedily
  • straightaway
  • suddenly
  • surprisingly
  • swift
  • swiftly
  • unanticipatedly
  • unexpectedly

uncalculated

  • abrupt
  • accidental
  • adventitious
  • aimless
  • automatic
  • begrudging
  • blind
  • casual
  • chance
  • coincidental
  • compulsory
  • conditioned
  • contingent
  • desultory
  • extemporaneous
  • fluky
  • forced
  • fortuitous
  • from left field
  • grudging
  • gut
  • habitual
  • half-cocked
  • haphazard
  • hasty
  • hit-or-miss
  • hurried
  • ill-advised
  • impetuous
  • impromptu
  • impulsive
  • inadvertent
  • inattentive
  • incidental
  • inherent
  • innate
  • instinctive
  • instinctual
  • involuntary
  • knee-jerk
  • latent
  • lost
  • not bargained for
  • obligatory
  • out of the blue
  • purposeless
  • random
  • reflex
  • reflexive
  • reluctant
  • repressed
  • rushed
  • spontaneous
  • startling
  • subconscious
  • subliminal
  • sudden
  • suppressed
  • surprise
  • unadvised
  • unanticipated
  • unaware
  • unconscious
  • unconsidered
  • uncontrolled
  • undeliberate
  • unexpected
  • unforeseen
  • unheeding
  • unintended
  • unintentional
  • unlooked-for
  • unmeditated
  • unmindful
  • unplanned
  • unpremeditated
  • unprompted
  • unrealized
  • unstudied
  • unthinking
  • unwilling
  • unwitting
  • will-less

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