UNFORESEEN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does unforeseen mean? 

• UNFORESEEN (adjective)
  The adjective UNFORESEEN has 1 sense:

1. not anticipated

  Familiarity information: UNFORESEEN used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNFORESEEN (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Not anticipated

Synonyms:

out of the blue; unanticipated; unforeseen; unlooked-for; unseen

Context example:

unseen problems

Similar:

unexpected (not expected or anticipated)

 Context examples 

A sudden unforeseen crisis that requires immediate action.

(Emergency, NCI Thesaurus)

But the visit had its unforeseen consequences; and of a serious sort, too, in their way.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Your own opinion is, then, that some unforeseen catastrophe has occurred to him?

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Some sort of lucky financial surprise is likely to come to you, and as is the trend this month, it will be completely unforeseen.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Then he tried an opera, for nothing seemed impossible in the beginning, but here again unforeseen difficulties beset him.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

An unforeseen and unplanned event or circumstance frequently causing loss or injury.

(Accident, NCI Thesaurus)

The mRNA CAR is expressed for a limited amount of time, which can prevent serious, unforeseen side effects. cMet, a receptor tyrosine kinase overexpressed or mutated in many tumor cell types, plays a key role in cancer cell growth, survival, angiogenesis, invasion, and metastasis.

(cMet CAR-mRNA Electroporated Autologous T Lymphocytes, NCI Thesaurus)

If, however, by an unforeseen chance it should be in my power to serve him farther, I must think very differently of him from what I now do, if I am not as ready to be useful to him then as I sincerely wish I could be at present.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

My point in telling you this story is that there are always unforeseen glitches when you order with Mercury retrograde, and the problem is, you never know what they will be.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

If he braved the matter out, death would unfailingly come upon him, and usually in some strange and unforeseen manner.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)