unweenedadj.
Now archaic.
Not thought of or imagined; unexpected.
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the mind > mental capacity > expectation > surprise, unexpectedness > [adjective] > surprising, unexpected
unbeweena1325
sudden1340
unhopedc1374
unwarec1374
unweenedc1374
unguessedc1400
unlooked for1531
untraisted1533
extonious1548
unlooked1548
unthought1548
unwares1548
unaspected1578
inexpecteda1586
unexpecteda1586
unwary1590
unwaited1592
unmistrusted1595
inopinate1598
unforethought1601
nap-taking1602
startling1609
expectless1613
unexpect1633
admirable1639
immergent1655
unpresumed1686
abrupt1725
unguessed1746
unanticipateda1779
unpredicted1792
unprecipitated1795
unsurmised1820
unsupposed1821
inopine1880
windfall1945
over-the-transom1952
left field1955
conversation-stopping1960
c1374 G. Chaucer tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. (1868) iv. pr. vi. 139 What so euer þou mayst seen þat is don in þis world vnhoped or vnwened.
1813 J. Hogg Queen's Wake i. viii. 91 The night unweened had passed away, And dawning ushered in the day.
1894 F. S. Ellis Reynard the Fox 194 When one weens no thing at all, The thing unweened will straight befal.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1926; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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