UNSUSPECTED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does unsuspected mean? 

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

1. not suspected or believed likely

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNSUSPECTED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Not suspected or believed likely

Context example:

unsuspected turnings in the road

Similar:

unknown (not known to exist)

Antonym:

suspected (believed likely)

 Context examples 

Criticism is the best test of such work, for it will show her both unsuspected merits and faults, and help her to do better next time.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

A great uproar was raised, but he was unsuspected; while Dub, an awkward blunderer who was always getting caught, was punished for Buck’s misdeed.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

All these jealousies and discontents, however, were so totally unsuspected by Mrs. Jennings, that she thought it a delightful thing for the girls to be together; and generally congratulated her young friends every night, on having escaped the company of a stupid old woman so long.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Much that lived in Harriet's memory, many little particulars of the notice she had received from him, a look, a speech, a removal from one chair to another, a compliment implied, a preference inferred, had been unnoticed, because unsuspected, by Emma.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

He inquired next after her family, especially William: and his kindness altogether was such as made her reproach herself for loving him so little, and thinking his return a misfortune; and when, on having courage to lift her eyes to his face, she saw that he was grown thinner, and had the burnt, fagged, worn look of fatigue and a hot climate, every tender feeling was increased, and she was miserable in considering how much unsuspected vexation was probably ready to burst on him.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

She went—she had driven once unsuccessfully to the door, but had not been into the house since the morning after Box Hill, when poor Jane had been in such distress as had filled her with compassion, though all the worst of her sufferings had been unsuspected.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

And without attempting any farther remonstrance, she left Fanny to her fate, a fate which, had not Fanny's heart been guarded in a way unsuspected by Miss Crawford, might have been a little harder than she deserved; for although there doubtless are such unconquerable young ladies of eighteen (or one should not read about them) as are never to be persuaded into love against their judgment by all that talent, manner, attention, and flattery can do, I have no inclination to believe Fanny one of them, or to think that with so much tenderness of disposition, and so much taste as belonged to her, she could have escaped heart-whole from the courtship (though the courtship only of a fortnight) of such a man as Crawford, in spite of there being some previous ill opinion of him to be overcome, had not her affection been engaged elsewhere.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)