unlooked for
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.31 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Not expected or anticipated; unforeseen.
adj
Not looked for, not searched for.
Example Sentences
- "A heavy sentence, my most sovereign liege, And all unlook’d for from your highness’ mouth:"
- "And now he perisheth With this unlooked for, undeservèd death:"
- "The attack was so utterly unlooked for, and delivered with such force, moreover, from the advantage of the step, that Tommy Coxen was knocked clean over, falling on his back with Seth on top of him."
- "Strawberries and cream at Wimbledon next week could have an unlooked-for extra ingredient—an illegal pesticide."
- "[…] send them to the Well for the water of life: there shall they finde their fortunes unlooked for […]"
- "This vvas an Adventure indeed unlook’d for, and perfectly undesign’d by me; tho’ I vvas not ſo paſt the Merry part of Life, as to forget hovv to behave, vvhen a Fop ſo blinded by his Appetite ſhould not knovv an old VVoman from a young: […]"
Etymology
From un- + looked for.