Usually means: Surprising, not anticipated or predicted.
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We found 29 dictionaries that define the word unexpected:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. unexpected: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. unexpected, the unexpected: Merriam-Webster
  3. unexpected: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. unexpected: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. unexpected: Collins English Dictionary
  6. unexpected: Vocabulary.com
  7. Unexpected, unexpected: Wordnik
  8. unexpected: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. unexpected: Wiktionary
  10. unexpected: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. unexpected: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. unexpected: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. unexpected: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. unexpected: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. The Unexpected (Animorphs), The Unexpected (TV series), The Unexpected (novel), The Unexpected, Unexpected (Angie Stone album), Unexpected (Heroes), Unexpected (Jason Crabb album), Unexpected (Levina album), Unexpected (Lumidee album), Unexpected (Michelle Williams album), Unexpected (disambiguation), Unexpected: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Unexpected: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. unexpected: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. unexpected: Rhymezone
  19. unexpected: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. unexpected: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. unexpected: FreeDictionary.org
  22. unexpected: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. unexpected: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. unexpected: Dictionary.com

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

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. unexpected: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. unexpected: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Not expected, anticipated or foreseen.
noun:  (rare) Someone or something unexpected.

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