Usually means: Not expected or predicted beforehand.
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General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. unanticipated: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. unanticipated: Merriam-Webster
  3. unanticipated: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. unanticipated: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. unanticipated: Collins English Dictionary
  6. unanticipated: Vocabulary.com
  7. Unanticipated, unanticipated: Wordnik
  8. unanticipated: Wiktionary
  9. unanticipated: Dictionary.com
  10. unanticipated: Rhymezone
  11. unanticipated: FreeDictionary.org
  12. unanticipated: Mnemonic Dictionary
  13. unanticipated: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. unanticipated: Legal dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (unanticipated)

▸ adjective:  Not anticipated.

Similar:
unforeseen, unexpected, unlooked-for, out of the blue, unpredicted, unhoped-for, unexpectant, unlooked for, unexpectable, unsuspect, more...

Opposite:
expected, predicted, foreseen, planned, prepared

Types:
unforeseen, unexpected, unplanned, unwanted, undesired, more...

Phrases:
unanticipated occurence, more...

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    chartreuse,     periwinkle,     mauve,     vermilion,     teal, more...



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Similar:
unforeseen, unexpected, unlooked-for, out of the blue, unpredicted, unhoped-for, unexpectant, unlooked for, unexpectable, unsuspect, more...

Opposite:
expected, predicted, foreseen, planned, prepared

Types:
unforeseen, unexpected, unplanned, unwanted, undesired, more...

Phrases:
unanticipated occurence, more...

Colors:
    chartreuse,     periwinkle,     mauve,     vermilion,     teal, more...



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