Usually means: Surprising, not anticipated or predicted.
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We found 28 dictionaries that define the word unexpected:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. unexpected, the unexpected: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. unexpected: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. unexpected: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. unexpected: Collins English Dictionary
  5. unexpected: Vocabulary.com
  6. Unexpected, unexpected: Wordnik
  7. unexpected: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. unexpected: Wiktionary
  9. unexpected: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. unexpected: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. unexpected: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. unexpected: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. unexpected: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. The Unexpected (Animorphs), The Unexpected (TV series), The Unexpected (novel), The Unexpected, Unexpected (Angie Stone album), Unexpected (Heroes), Unexpected (Jason Crabb album), Unexpected (Levina album), Unexpected (Lumidee album), Unexpected (Michelle Williams album), Unexpected (disambiguation), Unexpected: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Unexpected: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. unexpected: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. unexpected: Rhymezone
  18. unexpected: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. unexpected: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. unexpected: Free Dictionary
  21. unexpected: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. unexpected: Dictionary/thesaurus
  23. unexpected: Dictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. unexpected: Legal dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. unexpected: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. unexpected: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Not expected, anticipated or foreseen.
noun:  (rare) Someone or something unexpected.

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