Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
a. 1 unintentional; not intended 2 spontaneous and not thought through in advance 3 not having any structure or organization
WordNet
adj. without apparent forethought or prompting or planning; "an unplanned economy"; "accepts an unplanned order"; "an unplanned pregnancy"; "unplanned remarks" [ant: planned]
not intentional; "an unintended slight"; "an unintentional pun"; "the offense was unintentional"; "an unwitting mistake may be overlooked" [syn: unintentional, unwitting]
Usage examples of "unplanned".
What I really wanted to do was scope out the area so that I could maneuver Brie into a spot where the trick seemed effortless and unplanned.
Close up, the machinery looked almost organic -- it had that evolved complexity, unplanned and serendipitous, that you can see in electron micrographs of cells and in flowcharts of mitochondria.
Their road was straight as an arrow past the maze of unplanned lanes and dwellings, and at gathering speed, until they faced no more of Guelemara than apple orchards, plowed barleyfields with furrows standing in water, and a slop of mud on the roads.
The cold anchovy pizza seemed to bother him more than an unplanned voyage into New York Harbor.
Palpatine's misgivings had been soothed away by the simple expedient of Kuat Drive Yards absorbing an unplanned cost overrun, by Kuat of Kuat's personal orders, on the design change orders for an operational wing of a half-dozen new Imperial battle cruisers.
They came, taking the handlines, moving in surprisingly good order and self-assurance for men and women completely unaccustomed to ungravitied space… but their guild left no situation unplanned and devoted their lives to physical preparedness.
He'd never presume to ride Jaime's Grand Prix dressage mountno one rode Sabre but Jaime, and Carey's less theoretical, more intuitive style of riding would make him a poor match for any upper-level dressage horsebut he'd taken to longeing the horse in a variety of careful exercise programs gleaned from Jaime's books, hoping to keep him decently fit during this long and unplanned layoff.
He'd never presume to ride Jaime's Grand Prix dressage mount—no one rode Sabre but Jaime, and Carey's less theoretical, more intuitive style of riding would make him a poor match for any upper-level dressage horse—but he'd taken to longeing the horse in a variety of careful exercise programs gleaned from Jaime's books, hoping to keep him decently fit during this long and unplanned layoff.
These are all contingent effects of unplanned, miscegenetic encounters: the evolutionary fallout of prokaryotic sex.
It sticks out into San Pedro Bay, where the older, nastier Burbclaves of the Basin -- unplanned Burbclaves of tiny asbestos-shingled houses patrolled by beetle-browed Kampuchean men with pump shotguns -- fade off into the foam-kissed beaches.
It was an unplanned diversion of the Tomcats, and that could play havoc with the logistical side of the operation.
Small and lean as this operation was, the size of the objective and the quality of the team made for unplanned safety factors.
When we berate the Chinese, Indonesians, and others for doing likewise, they naturally see a double standard, though as the world’s population quadrupled since the nineteenth century and resource scarcities are thus more severe, the environmental costs of such unplanned and antiquated development are no longer as easily afforded.
The statists often use this period as example of "the unplanned chaos" of free enterprise.
TunFaire's alleys serve many unplanned uses, especially those of trash dump and public relief facility.