unforeseeableadjective
/ˌʌn.fɔːˈsiː.ə.bəl//ˌʌn.fɔːrˈsiː.ə.bəl/An unforeseeable event or situation is one that cannot be known about or guessed before it happens:
Loss due to unforeseeable circumstances is borne by the purchaser.
These countries were facing a very grave crisis with unforeseeable consequences.
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- The district had argued that the game was safe and well supervised, and that the accident was unforeseeable.
- They argued that the doctor's mistakes did not necessarily cause the death. Rather, unforeseeable drug interactions were more likely to blame.
- The consequences were by no means unforeseeable.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Predicting things and intuition
- augur
- augury
- bellwether
- betcha
- bode
- far-sighted
- intuit
- intuition
- intuitive
- nasty
- omen
- projection
- prophesy
- prophetic
- psychic
- read sb's mind idiom
- read sb's palm idiom
- read the runes idiom
- scent
- visionary
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