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UNHOPED-FOR
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Dictionary entry overview: What does unhoped-for mean?
• UNHOPED-FOR (adjective)
The adjective UNHOPED-FOR has 1 sense:
1. so unexpected as to have not been imagined
Familiarity information: UNHOPED-FOR used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
So unexpected as to have not been imagined
Synonyms:
unhoped; unhoped-for; unthought; unthought-of
Context example:
an unthought-of place to find the key
Similar:
unexpected (not expected or anticipated)
Context examples
I saw even that to be thus frankly addressed on a subject he had deemed unapproachable—to hear it thus freely handled—was beginning to be felt by him as a new pleasure—an unhoped-for relief.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
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