unpredicted
- adjective
- /ʌnˈprɛdɪktɪd/
- In the environment, in energy, all of the big shifts happened as a result of unpredicted events—OPEC, Rachel Carson, the fall of the Shah of Iran, the nuclear accidents—they were certainly outside of the normal modeling framework.
- unpredicted effects
So is does it ever expand based on sort of chaotic, unpredicted surprising behavior of the players?
- So is does it ever expand based on sort of chaotic, unpredicted surprising behavior of the players?
- So it be attesting to the evenings unpredicted revelation, the printed statistic transmuted into body and blood.
Examples
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Participants may diverge from their original ideas and proposals into new fields, unpredicted action, and creative insights.
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And as you've seen, changes come about very quickly in response to events—some of them unpredicted.
Blog text (25) -
We need to change what we are doing rather than rely on something unpredicted and totally out of our control.
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Like what were the the big unpredicted insights that you got on this journey?
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And feelings provide the value system which enables choice in unpredicted novel situations.
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Everything we're seeing is new and unpredicted," Roelof says.
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Then, in 1927, came an unpredicted breakthrough.
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According to the events process theorists, such an unpredicted economic crisis is highly likely to dissolve the cabinet.
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The surprise was the unpredicted discovery that ozone was disappearing over Antarctica every year in spring.
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The hurricane's unpredicted path caught everyone off guard and caused widespread damage.
Synonyms
Happening without warning
Not expected to happen
Happening by chance without getting ready first
Not expected before and causing trouble or surprise
Happening suddenly without warning
Not known or expected to be there
Happening suddenly without warning
Not expected and coming as a surprise
Not expected and often surprising
Not usual or expected in a situation
No one knows what it is
An unexpected pleasant event that brings good results
Very unexpected and better than anyone imagined
No one expects it before it happens
Antonyms
How Expected
Surface Forms
Morphology
unpredicted = predicted (transparent) = un + predict + ed
The prefix 'un-' clearly negates the meaning of 'predicted', making it transparent.
Etymology
Unpredicted starts with un- meaning 'not' and predict meaning 'to say before' or 'say what will happen'. So something unpredicted was 'not said before' and did not happen as people expected, which is why it means 'not expected' or 'surprising'.