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unlooked-for

unlooked-for is the alternative form of unlooked for.

Meaning of unlooked for

Adjective

unlooked for (comparative more unlooked for, superlative most unlooked for)

  1. Not expected or anticipated; unforeseen.
    • A heavy sentence, my most sovereign liege,
      And all unlook’d for from your highness’ mouth:1595 December 9 (first known performance), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Richard the Second”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to...
  2. Not looked for, not searched for.
    • […] send them to the Well for the water of life: there shall they finde their fortunes unlooked for […]c. 1590 (date written), G[eorge] P[eele], The Old Wiues Tale. […], London: […] Iohn Danter, for Raph Hancocke, and Iohn Hardie, […], published 1595, →OCLC, [lines 290-292]
    Synonyms:
    unsought

Forms of unlooked-for

comparativemore unlooked-for
superlativemost unlooked-for

Questions about unlooked-for

What is unlooked-for the alternative form of?
Unlooked-for is the alternative form of unlooked for.

Words near unlooked-for in the dictionary

  1. unlonely
  2. unlonesome
  3. unlooked
  4. unlooked for
  5. unlooked-at
  6. unlooked-for
  7. unlooking
  8. unloop
  9. unloopable
  10. unlooped
  11. unlooper

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Adapted from Wiktionary: unlooked-for (page history and authors); unlooked for (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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