unexpectedly

English

Etymology

From unexpected +‎ -ly or un- +‎ expectedly.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ʌnɪkˈspɛktɪdli/

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Adverb

unexpectedly (comparative more unexpectedly, superlative most unexpectedly)

1. In an unexpected manner.

   Antonym: expectedly

   Near-synonyms: against expectations, against all odds, surprisingly

   • 1863, George Eliot, chapter XVI, in Romola, volume II, book II, page 186:

     […] she was startled by unexpectedly meeting her husband, who was coming to seek her.

   • 1952 February, H. C. Casserley, “Permanent Wayfarings”, in Railway Magazine, page 77:

     Other evidence of former ownerships such as notice-boards, number plates, and makers' plates, are often discovered unexpectedly.

Translations

in an unexpected manner

• Bashkir: көтмәгәндә (kötməgəndə), ҡапыл (qapıl), кинәт (kinət)
• Belarusian: ра́птам (ráptam)
• Bulgarian: неочаквано (bg) (neočakvano)
• Catalan: inesperadament
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 竟然 (ging² jin⁴), 居然 (geoi¹ jin^4-2)

  Mandarin: 竟然 (zh) (jìngrán), 出乎意料地 (chūhūyìliàode)

• Czech: nečekaně
• Danish: uventet
• Dutch: onverwachts (nl)
• Esperanto: neatendite
• Estonian: ootamatult
• Faroese: óvæntað
• Finnish: yllättäen (fi)
• French: contre toute attente (fr), de manière inattendue, surprenamment (fr) (very rare)
• Galician: inesperadamente
• German: unerwartet (de), unerwarteterweise (de)
• Gothic: 𐌿𐌽𐍅𐌴𐌽𐌹𐌲𐌲𐍉 (unwēniggō)
• Greek: αναπάντεχα (el) (anapántecha), απροσδόκητα (el) (aprosdókita)
• Hungarian: váratlanul (hu)
• Irish: gan choinne
• Italian: inaspettatamente (it)
• Japanese: 思いがけなく (omoigakenaku), おもいがけず (ja) (omoigakezu)
• Latin: inexspectate
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: uventet

  Nynorsk: uventa

• Plautdietsch: onverhofs
• Polish: nieoczekiwanie (pl), niespodziewanie (pl), niespodzianie (pl) (literary)
• Portuguese: inesperadamente (pt)
• Russian: неожи́данно (ru) (neožídanno)
• Sardinian:

  Gallurese Sardinian: allisumbréttu

• Spanish: inesperadamente (es), inopinadamente (es)
• Swedish: oväntat (sv), oförmodat
• Telugu: అకస్మాత్తుగా (te) (akasmāttugā)
• Ukrainian: несподі́вано (nespodívano), знена́цька (znenácʹka)