unplanned
/ənplˈænd/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.14 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Unintentional; not intended.
adj
Spontaneous and not thought through in advance.
adj
Not having any structure or organization.
Example Sentences
- "Juno MacGuff is the kind of teenager we all wish we could have been: quick-witted, frighteningly intelligent beyond her years and comfortable enough in her own skin to resist those incessant high-school pressures to conform, even as her body expands with an unplanned pregnancy."
- "All of these factors increase the probability of stranding and the severity of the consequences. Since 2011, there have been several strandings that resulted in unplanned evacuations, because the passengers became desperate from personal discomfort or lack of confidence of being rescued."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Germanic *un- Proto-West Germanic *un- Old English un- Middle English un- English un- English planned English unplanned From un- + planned.
Inflected Forms
more unplanned (comparative)
most unplanned (superlative)