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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
unforeseen
adjective
1: not anticipated; "unanticipated and disconcerting lines of development"- H.W.Glidden; "unforeseen circumstances"; "a virtue unlooked-for in people so full of energy"; "like a bolt out of the blue" [syn: {unanticipated}, {unlooked-for}, {out of the blue(p)}]
2: happening or coming quickly and without warning; "a sudden unexpected development" [syn: {unexpected}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
57 Moby Thesaurus words for "unforeseen": abrupt, accidental, adventitious, aleatory, casual, causeless, chance, chancy, contingent, destinal, dicey, electrifying, extraordinary, fatal, fatidic, fluky, fortuitous, hasty, headlong, iffy, impetuous, improbable, impulsive, incidental, indeterminate, more than expected, nerve-shattering, out-of-the-way, past expectation, precipitant, precipitate, precipitous, quick, risky, shocking, speedy, startling, sudden, surprise, surprising, swift, unannounced, unanticipated, uncaused, undetermined, undivined, unexpected, unforeseeable, unguessed, unheralded, unhoped for, unlooked-for, unpredictable, unpredicted, unprepared for, unsought, without warning
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