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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
unforeseen
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a sudden/unexpected/unforeseen emergency (=a situation that was not planned)
▪ I left half an hour early in case of traffic jams or some other unforeseen emergency.
unforeseen circumstances (=that you did not realize would happen)
▪ The tragedy was the result of a series of unforeseen circumstances.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
change
▪ In particular, it is recognised that agents may use some assets as a buffer-stock against unforeseen changes in net receipts.
▪ Just when everything seems to be going well, some unforeseen change of mood or some unexpected symptom plunges you down again.
▪ A market would be a relatively costly way of adjusting the uses made of specific assets in response to unforeseen changes revealed over time.
circumstances
▪ It was an interesting move pregnant with unforeseen circumstances, not least the concern and misunderstanding to which it gave rise locally.
▪ Our clients reserve the right to alter this timetable in the event of unforeseen circumstances.
▪ The player did eventually join the Peacocks, but under unusual and unforeseen circumstances.
▪ In the hours you allocate for work, sort out your priorities, reordering them when unforeseen circumstances arise.
▪ Since decisions are quicker, they are also more adaptable, and easier to change in the light of unforeseen circumstances which may arise.
▪ In some unforeseen circumstances like death, one parent has to be enough.
consequence
▪ Officials have shown ignorance of the fact that locking their countries into trade rules can have unforeseen consequences.
▪ Measures of this sort are no doubt often inconsistent with each other and may have unforeseen consequences.
▪ The culture will not work as planned, and unforeseen consequences may be catastrophic.
▪ Similarly, there may be no control over the consequences of changing the different variables and there may be unforeseen consequences.
delay
▪ Such projects require a creative environment and flexible plans with ample room for unforeseen delays.
event
▪ These energies often lie dormant till triggered by some unforeseen event or response.
▪ Other unforeseen events also occurred in my family.
problem
▪ Without an efficient system and good professional advice, unforeseen problems can develop into major setbacks.
▪ It was furthermore an exercise in gaining experience in measurements with grass samples, to assist in spotting unforeseen problems.
▪ This would allow us to make any changes we felt were appropriate and would highlight any unforeseen problems.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Once you have started the training you will not be allowed to leave, unless unforeseen circumstances arise.
▪ These actions may have unforeseen consequences.
▪ We had to cancel our visit to Egypt because of unforeseen problems.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ An interest-free loan fund is also available to students who find themselves in unforeseen financial difficulty.
▪ But I was slow to get started on this project and before I could something unforeseen happened.
▪ I had met Hugo at a party and unforeseen and overwhelming emotions had consumed me.
▪ Our clients reserve the right to alter this timetable in the event of unforeseen circumstances.
▪ Planned maintenance minimises unforeseen breakdowns, reduces machine running costs and ensures optimum machine availability.
▪ Something totally unforeseen could occur to preclude it.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
unforeseen

late 14c., from un- (1) "not" + past participle of foresee. Similar formation in Middle Dutch onvoresien, Dutch onvoorzien, Middle High German unvorsen.

Wiktionary
unforeseen

a. 1 not foreseen. 2 not expected.

WordNet
unforeseen

  1. 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: unanticipated, unlooked-for, out of the blue(p)]

  2. happening or coming quickly and without warning; "a sudden unexpected development" [syn: unexpected]

Usage examples of "unforeseen".

By combining their individual intelligences they succeed in coping with adverse circumstances, even quite unforeseen and unusual, like those bees of the Paris Exhibition which fastened with their resinous propolis the shutter to a glass-plate fitted in the wall of their hive.

Therefore, on the day when this plan, slowly and solitarily ripened, shall break forth, it will break forth with all the conditions of success which always accompany an unforeseen event.

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.

A second hypothesis might be that the unforeseen persistence of capitalism involves simply a continuation of the same processes of expansion and accumulation that we analyzed earlier, only that the complete depletion of the environment was not yet imminent, and that the moment of conf ronting limits and of ecological disaster is still to come.

It was too boring to think that the object might change of its own accord and assume unforeseen characteristics.

In allowing such shockingly unforeseen pleasure and new insight into familiar events, Nabokov makes almost unbearably delightful the prospect of an immortality in which such discoveries would be rife.

Maia, once again out of sight in the darkness, found herself faced with a dilemma, unforeseen in her agitation at being so suddenly called upon to dance.

Faraerth and his superiors in the Hegemony Fleet, this unforeseen change was merely a clarion call for greater caution.

The unforeseen event, till the north wind Sprung from the sea, lifting the heavy veil Of battle-smoke--then victory--victory!

On those occasions, the worst thing we can do is to avoid making a choice in the hope that if we just think hard enough an unforeseen solution will materialize that will relieve us of the need to make the hard choice.

So it would have to be strong enough to be able to overcome any resistance quickly and big enough to afford to detach subelements to mask cities, protect its logistical lines, and exploit any unforeseen opportunities for maneuver that present themselves along the way.

One of the great dangers of this campaign is that we would not bring enough force and then would find ourselves bogged down by unforeseen developments.

It was a two-stage rocket with a microcomputer that had, besides the standard programs of contact, the ability to revise and alter them to fit unforeseen circumstances.

And in order for it to respond suitably to the unforeseen behavior of the host upon landing, it was given a too-intelligent computer.