| 单词 | unanticipated |
| 释义 | unanticipated (once / 24270 pages) adj Unanticipated means "unexpected." Finding a candy bar in your lunchbox when your mom usually packs nothing but health food would be an unanticipated delight. Just as pleasure is sweetest when unanticipated, unanticipated pain is a bitter pill. Getting laid off from a job is often unanticipated––and the fact that you're blindsided by it is often the source of most of the pain. You wonder why you didn't see it coming, and worry that other unanticipated disasters lie in wait for you. WORD FAMILYanticipated: unanticipated+/anticipate: anticipated, anticipates, anticipating, anticipation, anticipative, anticipator, anticipatory/anticipation: anticipations/anticipative: anticipatively/anticipator: anticipators/anticipatory: anticipatorily USAGE EXAMPLESThe presidency is more often characterized by the unanticipated, not the anticipated. Wall Street Journal(Jan 02, 2017) The 12-0 start to the season was unanticipated with what they lost to graduation and the incredibly difficult schedule he put together. Seattle Times(Dec 30, 2016) Amazon last year was beset with a scramble to deliver orders resulting from an unanticipated spike in demand. Seattle Times(Dec 30, 2016) adj not anticipated " unanticipated and disconcerting lines of development"- H.W.Glidden Syn out of the blue, unforeseen, unlooked-for unexpected not expected or anticipated |
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