Usually means: Unexpected and not anticipated beforehand.
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  1. unlooked for: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. unlooked-for: Merriam-Webster
  3. unlooked-for: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. unlooked-for: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. unlooked-for, unlooked-for: Collins English Dictionary
  6. unlooked-for: Vocabulary.com
  7. unlooked-for: Wordnik
  8. unlooked-for: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. unlooked-for, unlooked for: Wiktionary
  10. unlooked-for: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. unlooked-for: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. unlooked-for: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. unlooked-for, unlooked for: Dictionary.com
  14. Unlooked-for: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. unlooked-for: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. unlooked-for: Rhymezone
  17. Unlooked-for: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. unlooked-for: FreeDictionary.org
  19. unlooked-for: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. unlooked-for: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. unlooked for: Legal dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (unlooked for)

▸ adjective:  Not expected or anticipated; unforeseen.
▸ adjective:  Not looked for, not searched for.

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

Opposite:
expected, anticipated, predicted, foreseen

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

Opposite:
expected, anticipated, predicted, foreseen



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