Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1741, from un- (1) "not" + past participle of anticipate (v.).
Wiktionary
a. Not anticipated.
WordNet
adj. 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: unforeseen, unlooked-for, out of the blue(p)]
Usage examples of "unanticipated".
Another day drinking bleer, playing cards, and waiting for an unanticipated reply to the ultimatum.
The twist, always unanticipated, like the arrival of a startling bird one morning at the feeder outside the breakfast window, may pay its fragile visit at any moment.
Though he moved no closer, she felt his focused energy like an unanticipated touch.
Liam felt something so powerful and unanticipated that he bowed to impulse.
Grimsley thought that the unanticipated battle they had just fought against a mix of Iraqi soldiers and Fedayeen might, in retrospect, turn out to be one of the major battles of the war.
Dowdy believed that his initial reluctance to run the gauntlet in Nasiriyah after Task Force Tarawa stumbled into the unanticipated battle there had set a tone and that he was unfairly depicted as too hesitant by Kelly regarding an operation in Kut that Mattis himself had never planned.
There were, Rumsfeld cautioned, unknown dangers so unanticipated that experts could not even imagine them.
There were two reasons why The Shadow had resorted to his unusual strategy of flight - that is, two reasons other than the fact that he was wounded and therefore at an unanticipated disadvantage.
The American regimen cracked open the authoritarian structures of the old society in a manner that permitted unprecedented individual freedoms and unanticipated forms of popular expression to flourish.
At the same time, Emperor Hirohito carried out these engagements with such stolid, uncomplaining discomfort that, in unanticipated ways, he actually became an intimate symbol of the suffering and victimization of his people.
Everything was suddenly betterand worsein unanticipated and unnerving ways.
December of that year an unanticipated Christmas card from Daddy threw me into a minor panic and I discussed with Dr.
Edwina had had no effect whatsoever, Emma was a bit taken aback by this unanticipated reversal.
She was as conscious of Winston as he was of her, and she longed to prolong this unanticipated and unexpected moment of real physical contact.
Matson had produced one unexpected and unanticipated result, one which complicated things and produced the wonder which still awes and confuses me.