unlooked
/ʌnˈlʊkt
/adjective (unlooked for)
Unexpected; unforeseen: in his family he found unlooked-for happiness...
- Things come out of the blue that are unanticipated, unlooked for - neither dreamt of nor ambitiously sought after.
- Here is the unlooked for affirmation, a new physics in which smoke ‘stands’ while windows ‘stream’ and brick is ‘white’ and ‘fireproof; or else/it isn't'. And of course, there is the platitude: ‘no smoke without fire’.
- ‘This surprise was unlooked for’ he smiled as he accepted her gifts.
Synonyms
unexpected, unforeseen, unanticipated, not bargained for, unhoped-for, unsought, undreamed of, unpredicted;
unintentional, unintended, inadvertent, unplanned, unpremeditated, unwitting, fortuitous, chance, coincidental, serendipitous, random, fluky;
sudden, abrupt, surprise, surprising, without warning, without notice, startling, astonishing, out of the blue
Rhymes
- machine code
- machine-coded
- machine-cut
- machine-driven
- machine finish
- machineful
- machine gun
- machine-gunner
- machine-gun nest
- machine head
- machine-hour
- machine independence
- machine-independent
- machine instruction
- machine intelligence
- machine language
- machine learning
- machineless
- machine-like
- machine-made
- machine-man
- machine minder
- machine-minding
- machine operator
- machine-oriented