"unlooked for" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "From un- + looked for + -ed.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more unlooked for",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most unlooked for",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "args": {},
      "expansion": "unlooked for (comparative more unlooked for, superlative most unlooked for)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "related": [
    {
      "_dis1": "51 49",
      "word": "unlooked"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1595 December 9 (first known performance), William Shakespeare, “The life and death of King Richard the Second”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii]:",
          "text": "A heavy sentence, my most sovereign liege,\nAnd all unlook’d for from your highness’ mouth:",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1865, “Philoctetes”, in Edward Hayes Plumptre, transl., The Tragedies of Sophocles, London: Isbister, Appendix, page 495:",
          "text": "And now he perisheth\nWith this unlooked for, undeservèd death:",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1906, Charles G. D. Roberts, chapter 21, in The Heart That Knows, Boston: L. C. Page:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2002 June 20, Paul Brown, “Pesticide fear for fruit eaters”, in The Guardian:",
          "text": "Strawberries and cream at Wimbledon next week could have an unlooked-for extra ingredient—an illegal pesticide.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Not expected or anticipated; unforeseen."
      ],
      "id": "en-unlooked_for-en-adj-xljUltiU",
      "links": [
        [
          "expected",
          "expected"
        ],
        [
          "anticipated",
          "anticipated"
        ],
        [
          "unforeseen",
          "unforeseen"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "_dis1": "59 41",
          "sense": "not expected",
          "word": "unanticipated"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "59 41",
          "sense": "not expected",
          "word": "unexpected"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "59 41",
          "sense": "not expected",
          "word": "unforeseen"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "44 56",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "41 59",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "39 61",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "c. 1590 (date written), G[eorge] P[eele], The Old Wiues Tale. […], London: […] Iohn Danter, for Raph Hancocke, and Iohn Hardie, […], published 1595, →OCLC, [lines 290-292]:",
          "text": "[…] send them to the Well for the water of life: there shall they finde their fortunes unlooked for […]",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1722 (indicated as 1721), [Daniel Defoe], The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders, &c. […], London: […] W[illiam Rufus] Chetwood, […]; and T. Edling, […], published 1722, →OCLC, page 277:",
          "text": "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: […]",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Not looked for, not searched for."
      ],
      "id": "en-unlooked_for-en-adj-ndbRXC~T",
      "links": [
        [
          "looked for",
          "look for"
        ],
        [
          "searched",
          "search"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "_dis1": "37 63",
          "sense": "not looked for",
          "word": "unsought"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "_dis1": "51 49",
      "word": "unlooked-for"
    }
  ],
  "word": "unlooked for"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English adjectives",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries"
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From un- + looked for + -ed.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more unlooked for",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most unlooked for",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "unlooked for (comparative more unlooked for, superlative most unlooked for)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "unlooked"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1595 December 9 (first known performance), William Shakespeare, “The life and death of King Richard the Second”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii]:",
          "text": "A heavy sentence, my most sovereign liege,\nAnd all unlook’d for from your highness’ mouth:",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1865, “Philoctetes”, in Edward Hayes Plumptre, transl., The Tragedies of Sophocles, London: Isbister, Appendix, page 495:",
          "text": "And now he perisheth\nWith this unlooked for, undeservèd death:",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1906, Charles G. D. Roberts, chapter 21, in The Heart That Knows, Boston: L. C. Page:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2002 June 20, Paul Brown, “Pesticide fear for fruit eaters”, in The Guardian:",
          "text": "Strawberries and cream at Wimbledon next week could have an unlooked-for extra ingredient—an illegal pesticide.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Not expected or anticipated; unforeseen."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "expected",
          "expected"
        ],
        [
          "anticipated",
          "anticipated"
        ],
        [
          "unforeseen",
          "unforeseen"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "c. 1590 (date written), G[eorge] P[eele], The Old Wiues Tale. […], London: […] Iohn Danter, for Raph Hancocke, and Iohn Hardie, […], published 1595, →OCLC, [lines 290-292]:",
          "text": "[…] send them to the Well for the water of life: there shall they finde their fortunes unlooked for […]",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1722 (indicated as 1721), [Daniel Defoe], The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders, &c. […], London: […] W[illiam Rufus] Chetwood, […]; and T. Edling, […], published 1722, →OCLC, page 277:",
          "text": "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: […]",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Not looked for, not searched for."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "looked for",
          "look for"
        ],
        [
          "searched",
          "search"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "sense": "not expected",
      "word": "unanticipated"
    },
    {
      "sense": "not expected",
      "word": "unexpected"
    },
    {
      "sense": "not expected",
      "word": "unforeseen"
    },
    {
      "sense": "not looked for",
      "word": "unsought"
    },
    {
      "word": "unlooked-for"
    }
  ],
  "word": "unlooked for"
}