unhoped
/ʌnˈhəʊpt
/adjective (unhoped for)
Exceeding hope or expectation: an unhoped-for piece of good luck...
- It is damaging because it's an unhoped for situation which no employee ever imagined it would happen.
- At Slough, the loan of two engines of the series 9 was enough to restore an unhoped boost.
- The seat belt, of course, functions to restrain the seat's user in the seat in the unhoped for event of an accident.
Synonyms
unexpected, unanticipated, unforeseen, unpredicted, unlooked-for, unplanned, not bargained for, without warning, without notice;
undreamed of, out of the blue, beyond one's wildest dreams, like a dream come true;
startling, astonishing, surprising, unbelievable
- have (or get) itchy feet
- have (or get)one's snout (or nose) in the trough
- have (or get) one's snout (or nose) in the trough
- have (or get) someone/thing taped
- have (or get) something down to a fine art
- have (or give) it large
- have (or have grown) whiskers
- have (or hold) no terrors for someone
- have (or hold) someone in the palm of one's hand
- have (or keep) an ear to the ground
- have (or keep) one's eye on
- have (or keep) one's finger on the pulse
- have (or keep) one's (or both) feet on the ground
- have (or keep) one's wits about one
- have (or know) all the answers
- have (or put) one's heart in
- have (or put) someone/thing down as
- have (or take) a butcher's
- have (or take) a leak
- have (or take) a pop at
- have (or throw) a fit
- have (or want) no truck with
- have (or with) an eye to
- have (or with) an eye to (or for or on) the main chance
- have (or with) one's fingers (or hand) in the till