unforeseeable

Examples

• All

• The team's plans fell apart due to unforeseeable circumstances that nobody could have predicted.

• We were completely unprepared for the unforeseeable challenges that arose during our project.

• - Which one of those unforeseeable events?

  The Day of the Dolphin (1973)

• Perhaps language, as a study of itself, has ends which are otherwise unforeseeable.

  Academic text (2010)

• Where I still am, and for the unforeseeable future, where I imagine I'll be.

  Blog text (16)

• The goal was to paint the attack as an entirely unforeseeable and completely random event.

  Blog text (23)

• A live brain, a trained eye, alert for the unforeseeable.

  Fiction book (2001)

• Social work's commitment to universal health care and protections from unforeseeable losses.

  Academic text (2009)

• Furthermore, wars and other unforeseeable events have a tremendous impact on economic inequality.

  Blog text (31)

• The unforeseeable effects of terrorism and subversion remain the only question mark for our country's continued economic health.

  Radio Free Albemuth (2010)

Synonyms

U

unexpected

vsunforeseeable

392 2.5

Happening without warning

means impossible to predict rather than simply surprising

U

unpredictable

vsunforeseeable

163 4.4

Likely to change suddenly and hard to know in advance

is always impossible to predict rather than just changeable

U

unforeseen

vsunforeseeable

37 4.7

Not expected to happen

is about being impossible to predict rather than merely unplanned

U

unknowable

vsunforeseeable

19 7.4

Something you cannot find out or understand

focuses on being impossible to predict rather than impossible to know

U

unanticipated

vsunforeseeable

10 5.8

Happening suddenly without warning

is strictly impossible to predict rather than just lacking warning

U

unpredicted

vsunforeseeable

1 5.1

Happening when no one expects it

means impossible to predict rather than simply not predicted

U

unlooked-for

vsunforeseeable

1 8.0

Not expected and coming as a surprise

is about being impossible to predict rather than merely unplanned

U

unguessable

vsunforeseeable

1 8.8

Very hard to guess or predict

is strictly impossible to predict rather than merely unexpected

Antonyms

F

foreseeable

59 4.3

Likely to happen in the near future

How Predictable

predictable

189 2.5

uncertain

149 2.8

unpredictable

163 4.4

unforeseeable

5 6.7

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology