unimagined

Examples

• All

• On the other hand, this same system has created linkages and relationships between people, communities, and nations in previously unimagined ways, making the world more and more an interconnected village.

  Academic text (2008)

• But for the first time in his life, he felt a mighty surge of freedom, an unimagined pleasure of release.

  Fiction book (1993)

• Some post production artists have discovered previously unimagined space within older art.

• A change is one creative person's previously unimagined solution away.

  Blog text (13)

• Powered by the conviction that his code would aid the blind in previously unimagined ways, he stood up to sighted authority and said, "What you offer is good."

  Academic text (1996)

• Friends later worked in unimagined fields like genomics, face transplantation and mRNA vaccine production.

• Meghan's quest is fraught with unimagined dangers, unpredictable powers, and an utterly forbidden love.

  Blog text (22)

• In her memoir, and consistent with Trudeau as the hero of her story, the incident turns out to be a fortuitous event as Smith's exposure in Life brings unimagined opportunity.

  Academic text (2014)

• Unexpected and unimagined realities that informants cannot articulate, and ethnographers cannot know to look for, become accessible only with patient, tenacious attentiveness.

  Academic text (1991)

• He experienced an unimagined joy when he reunited with his childhood friend after many years.

Synonyms

U

unthinkable

vsunimagined

89 5.7

Impossible to imagine or accept as an option

puts more emphasis on never having been pictured rather than just unacceptable

U

unimaginable

vsunimagined

63 5.4

So strange or large that people cannot believe it

means never thought of even in dreams not only hard to picture

U

unheard-of

vsunimagined

57 6.7

Very unusual because it has never happened before

adds the sense that it had never been pictured or thought possible before

I

inconceivable

vsunimagined

46 7.4

Impossible to imagine or believe

places more weight on never having been thought of by anyone

U

unforeseen

vsunimagined

37 4.7

Not expected to happen

implies deeper impossibility of imagining it rather than mere lack of prediction

U

unseen

vsunimagined

12 5.1

Not expected before and causing trouble or surprise

emphasises never having been pictured or thought of rather than unnoticed

U

unanticipated

vsunimagined

10 5.8

Happening suddenly without warning

is stronger meaning it was never thought of even in extreme imagination

U

unforeseeable

vsunimagined

5 6.7

Impossible to know before it happens

stresses that people never pictured it even in thought experiments rather than only unpredictable

U

unsuspected

vsunimagined

2 5.3

Not known or expected to be there

is stronger meaning it was never pictured or imagined at all by anyone

U

undreamed

vsunimagined

2 8.4

Not imagined or expected, even in your wildest dreams

is the same idea emphasising never thought of at all

U

unheralded

vsunimagined

1 7.4

Happening suddenly without warning

carries a stronger sense of never being imagined rather than just unannounced

U

unpredicted

vsunimagined

1 5.1

Happening when no one expects it

carries a stronger sense of never having been imagined by anyone beforehand

U

unthought

vsunimagined

1 9.5

Not imagined or expected before

stresses being entirely without prior thought rather than simple surprise

U

unlooked-for

vsunimagined

1 8.0

Not expected and coming as a surprise

suggests greater novelty meaning it was never imagined at all

U

undreamed of

vsunimagined

1 7.5

Far greater or more surprising than people ever imagined

is the general term emphasising never imagined even in dreams

U

unthought-of

vsunimagined

7.9

No one expects it before it happens

states absolute absence from thought rather than only being unexpected

U

unconceived

vsunimagined

8.6

Not thought of before

focuses on lack of prior conception rather than only unexpected occurrence

U

unhoped

vsunimagined

9.9

Very unexpected and better than anyone imagined

emphasises lack of any hope or expectation even beyond normal surprise

U

unhoped-for

vsunimagined

7.8

An unexpected pleasant event that brings good results

adds the idea of pleasant surprise while still being never imagined

Antonyms

E

envisioned

4.3

Imagined as a possible future or plan

How Imagined

envisioned

4.3

conceivable

62 4.6

unimagined

2 7.0

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology