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inexpected

inexpected is the obsolete form of unexpected.

Meaning of unexpected

Adjective

unexpected (comparative more unexpected, superlative most unexpected)

  1. Not expected, anticipated or foreseen.
    • She was a fat, round little woman, richly apparelled in velvet and lace, […]; and the way she laughed, cackling like a hen, the way she talked to the waiters and the maid,[…]—all these unexpected phenomena impelled one to hysterical mirth, and made one class her with such immortally ludicrous types...1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter II, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC

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Forms of inexpected

comparativemore inexpected
superlativemost inexpected

Origin of inexpected

From in- + expected.

Words formed from inexpected

Questions about inexpected

What is inexpected the obsolete form of?
Inexpected is the obsolete form of unexpected.

Words near inexpected in the dictionary

  1. inexpansible
  2. inexpectable
  3. inexpectancy
  4. inexpectant
  5. inexpectation
  6. inexpected
  7. inexpectedly
  8. inexpectedness
  9. inexpedience
  10. inexpediences
  11. inexpediencies

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Adapted from Wiktionary: inexpected (page history and authors); unexpected (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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