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unanticipated

unanticipated adjective: not anticipated.

Adjective

unanticipated (comparative more unanticipated, superlative most unanticipated)

  1. Not anticipated.
    • Last February, Elon Musk boasted of “feeding USAID into the woodchipper” as President Trump kicked off his second term with an unanticipated assault on the agency.2026 February 8, Jeremy Konyndyk, “The Aftermath of Feeding America’s Credibility Into the Woodchipper”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from...

Forms of unanticipated

comparativemore unanticipated
superlativemost unanticipated

Origin of unanticipated

From un- + anticipated.

Words formed from unanticipated

Questions about unanticipated

What does unanticipated mean?
Unanticipated means not anticipated.
What part of speech is unanticipated?
Unanticipated is an adjective.

Words near unanticipated in the dictionary

  1. unantagonizable
  2. unantagonized
  3. unantagonizing
  4. unanthropomorphic
  5. unanthropomorphized
  6. unanticipated
  7. unanticipatedly
  8. unanticipating
  9. unanticipatingly
  10. unanticipation
  11. unanticipative

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