• (America) IPA: /ʌnɪkˈspɛktɪd/

unexpected

1. Not expected, anticipated or foreseen.
   • 1945 August 17, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter 6, in Animal Farm: A Fairy Story, London: Secker & Warburg, OCLC 3655473 ↗:

     The windmill presented unexpected difficulties.

• See Thesaurus:surprising

• expected

• unplanned
• incidental
• contingent
• bolt from the blue
• out of the blue

• French: inattendu, imprévu, inopiné
• German: unerwartet
• Italian: inaspettato, insperato, inatteso, improvviso
• Portuguese: inesperado
• Russian: неожи́данный
• Spanish: inesperado, inopinado