inexpectation

Roget category 508

4. Words relating to the intellectual faculties
› 4.6. Extension of thought
›› 4.6.2. To the future

#508. Inexpectation

noun

inexpectation^†, non-expectation — false expectation etc. (disappointment) 509 — miscalculation etc. 481.
surprise, sudden burst, thunderclap, blow, shock, start — bolt out of the blue — wonder etc. 870 — eye opener.
unpleasant surprise, pleasant surprise.

verb

not expect etc. 507 — be taken by surprise — start — miscalculate etc. 481 — not bargain for — come upon, fall upon.
be unexpected etc. adj. — come unawares etc. adv. — turn up, pop, drop from the clouds — come upon one, burst upon one, flash upon one, bounce upon one, steal upon one, creep upon one — come like a thunder clap, burst like a thunderclap, thunder bolt — take by surprise, catch by surprise, catch unawares, catch napping — yach [S. Afr.].
pounce upon, spring a mine upon.
surprise, startle, take aback, electrify, stun, stagger, take away one's breath, throw off one's guard — astonish, dumbfound etc. (strike with wonder) 870.

adjective

nonexpectant^† — surprised etc. v. — unwarned, unaware — off one's guard — inattentive 458.
unexpected, unanticipated, unpredicted^†, unlooked for, unforeseen, unhoped for — dropped from the clouds — beyond expectation, contrary to expectation, against expectation, against all expectation — out of one's reckoning — unheard of etc. (exceptional) 83 — startling, surprising — sudden etc. (instantaneous) 113.
unpredictable, unforeseeable (unknowable) 519.

adverb

abruptly, unexpectedly, surprisingly — plump, pop, a l'improviste [Fr.], unawares — without notice, without warning, without a 'by your leave' —" like a thief in the night, like a thunderbolt — in an unguarded moment — suddenly etc. (instantaneously) 113.

interjection

heydey! ^†, etc. (wonder) 870.

phrase

little did one think, little did one expect — nobody would ever suppose, nobody would ever think, nobody would ever expect — who would have thought^† —? it beats the Dutch^†.

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