unthought

Examples

• All

• Theirs was an unthought heroism of daily life—and so is ours.

  Fiction book (1994)

• Xenophanes, as an after-dinner entertainer, placed his own account of the world where his audience would have had the expectation, even if in an entirely unthought way, of some variation of the mythological account.

  Academic text (2017)

• So there's a new, brilliant, so far unthought of solution, right?

  TimeGhost History

• However unsettling you find it, it can never be unthought or unknown.

  Harvard University

• Or am I going to try and find some way hitherto unthought of to bring them together without that strong tension?

• Mekhlis, speaking publicly at the eighteenth congress of the Communist Party, made it clear that his remarks were founded on the opinions of Stalin—as inevitably they had to have been, or else remain unsaid, even unthought.

  Academic text (1992)

• The community's unthought concerns about pollution were finally addressed in the recent town hall meeting.

• Her unthought ideas about the project surprised everyone when they turned out to be very useful.

• Many unthought possibilities for the new technology could lead to advancements we haven't yet considered.

Synonyms

U

unforeseen

vsunthought

37 4.7

Not expected to happen

is broader, also covering things never imagined before

U

unseen

vsunthought

12 5.1

Not expected before and causing trouble or surprise

focuses on not being thought of beforehand rather than unnoticed detail

U

unanticipated

vsunthought

10 5.8

Happening suddenly without warning

is about not being imagined or thought of before, not only unexpected

U

unsuspected

vsunthought

2 5.3

Not known or expected to be there

is about not being imagined at all, not only not suspected

U

unimagined

vsunthought

2 7.0

Not thought of before or expected

is similar but stresses simple lack of prior thought

U

undreamed

vsunthought

2 8.4

Not imagined or expected, even in your wildest dreams

is the plain idea of not having been imagined before

U

unpredicted

vsunthought

1 5.1

Happening when no one expects it

is about lack of prior thought, not only failed prediction

U

unlooked-for

vsunthought

1 8.0

Not expected and coming as a surprise

is the same idea but stresses absence of prior imagination

U

undreamed of

vsunthought

1 7.5

Far greater or more surprising than people ever imagined

covers being simply not thought of, without emphasising extraordinariness

U

unwonted

vsunthought

• Literature

1 9.9

Not usual or expected in a situation

is about absence of prior thought rather than formal unusualness

U

unthought-of

vsunthought

7.9

No one expects it before it happens

is about not having been imagined or thought of before

U

unconceived

vsunthought

8.6

Not thought of before

is about lacking any prior mental imagining rather than planning

U

unconceptualized

vsunthought

9.8

Not formed into a clear idea or plan

focuses on absence of simple prior thought rather than formal concept

U

unhoped-for

vsunthought

7.8

An unexpected pleasant event that brings good results

is neutral about surprise and simply means not thought of

U

unhoped

vsunthought

9.9

Very unexpected and better than anyone imagined

is the neutral lack of prior thought without the hopeful tone

Antonyms

C

considered

3.3

Made after careful thought

How Expected

anticipated

3.7

expected

1.2

surprising

433 1.8

unexpected

392 2.5

unthought

1 9.5

unimaginable

63 5.4

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology