Meaning & use
Unexpectable
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Not able to be anticipated or expected in advance.
See it in a sentence
The philosopher argued that truly novel events are, by definition, unexpectable.
Such an unexpectable turn of events left the committee scrambling for a response.
A note on using this word
Unexpectable is rare in everyday speech, with unpredictable or unforeseeable used far more often to express the same idea.
Words with a similar meaning
unforeseeableunpredictable
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Words with an opposite meaning
expectablepredictable
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