unguessed
- adjective
- /ʌnˈɡɛst/
:
no adivinado
- She felt a sense of unguessed joy when she opened the letter that changed her life.
Examples
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The mystery remained unguessed until the final chapter of the detective novel.
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These revelations are usually uncovered by a scholarly protagonist who realizes, to his peril, that the claims of ancient scriptures and grimoires have a terrible basis in hitherto-unguessed scientific and historical fact.
Academic text (2001) -
I won't give a new line unless it turns out to be both correct and unguessed by anyone else.
Blog text (32) -
Hundreds were turned away from the little college classroom, for whom there was no admittance; and outside of the university, the interest felt in the matter by Boston people, to whom that institution is as yet an unguessed conundrum, was very kind.
Fiction book (2001) -
Then and only then did a trick of the light reveal the hinges of the secret passageway, or a sudden shift in the dust of centuries disclose an unguessed trapdoor.
Fiction book (1994) -
Despite his careful planning, many aspects of the event were still unguessed by the committee.
Synonyms
37
4.7
Not expected to happen
12
5.1
Not expected before and causing trouble or surprise
10
5.8
Happening suddenly without warning
2
5.3
Not known or expected to be there
1
7.4
Happening suddenly without warning
1
5.1
Happening when no one expects it
How Expected
189
2.5
433
1.8
392
2.5
Surface Forms
Morphology
unguessed = guessed (transparent) = un + guess + ed
The prefix 'un-' clearly negates the adjective 'guessed', forming a transparent meaning.
Etymology
The word unguessed is made from un- ('not') and guess ('to try an answer without proof'), so it literally means 'not guessed'. It describes something nobody has found, predicted, or identified.