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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
unforeseeable
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ The circumstances which combined to cause this accident were unforeseeable.
▪ What happened the following weekend was as unforeseeable as a plane falling on your house.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And that may in the end prove inadequate for any unforeseeable expenses.
▪ But it is riddled with unforeseeable pitfalls, too.
▪ I emphasize this to make clear that what happened the following weekend was as unforeseeable as a plane falling on your house.
▪ On the contrary, it had only resulted from a number of complex and unforeseeable political developments at court.
▪ The fact that the burns had come about in an unforeseeable way did not render the damage too remote.
▪ The sort of liability that can arise is often unforeseeable and can be expensive.
▪ There were so many unforeseeable things.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Unforeseeable

Unforeseeable \Un`fore*see"a*ble\, a. Incapable of being foreseen.
--South.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
unforeseeable

1670s, from un- (1) "not" + foreseeable (see foresee). Related: Unforeseeably.

Wiktionary
unforeseeable

a. Incapable of being foreseen or anticipated

WordNet
unforeseeable

adj. incapable of being anticipated; "unforeseeable consequences"

Usage examples of "unforeseeable".

The most relevant aspect that the struggles have demonstrated may be sudden accelerations, often cumulative, that can become virtually simultaneous, explosions that reveal a properly ontological power and unforeseeable attack on the most central equilibria of Empire.

He was well aware that unforeseen unforeseeable circumstances might negate his purpose, and bring him trouble, disgrace, or worse.

In any conspiracy there were always imponderables, he knew, unforeseen and unforeseeable occurrences that could ruin a scheme, however well devised.

Throughout the unbounded global spaces, to the depths of the biopolitical world, and confronting an unforeseeable temporality-these are the determinations on which the new supranational right must be defined.

It becomes ever more difficult for Empire to intervene in the unforeseeable temporal sequences of events when they accelerate their temporality.

Solutions are not isolated but can give rise to other solutions with unforeseeable alacrity until the expectation that the whole work is about to disclose its secret significance, the mystery underlying its world, seems to tingle in every word.

If in each of the scenes in his pattern, considered on its own, Nabokov has tenderly preserved the independence of time even as he designs a pattern too subtle to be perceived without many replayings of the fictive past, is it not possible that an infinite care could be allowing us total freedom while weaving its own designs through our free choices, so that even the most trifling or mundane details of our lives could take on unforeseeable significance?

Perhaps this is due to superstitionin some unforeseeable way the answer, being correct, may help.

If they had known what she was capable of they would certainly, despite the unforeseeable consequences, have had her assassinated.

She was obsessed by the figure of the approaching queen, the queen never at a loss for some vile, unforeseeable stratagem.

Afterwards, in the unforeseeable future, she would have time to sort out her own problems.

Beginning in January of seventh grade and continuing into the following August, my previously frozen body underwent a growth spurt of uncommon proportions and unforeseeable consequences.

Of the missing quarter, a few had suffered natural and unforeseeable delays, while the remainder represented the first casualties in the new and eerie conflict.

Maybe after that it can give some kind of unforeseeable help to somebody in the unforeseeable future.

A sorcerer or priest, who was also a qualified celestonaut and fit for any unforeseeable kind of combat .