unexpected

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   not expected or anticipated

   unexpected guests

2. 2
   adj

   Not expected, anticipated or foreseen.

   She was a fat, round little woman, richly apparelled in velvet and lace, […]; and the way she laughed, cackling like a hen, the way she talked to the waiters and the maid,[…]—all these unexpected phenomena impelled one to hysterical mirth, and made one class her with such immortally ludicrous types as Ally Sloper, the Widow Twankey, or Miss Moucher.

3. 3
   noun

   Someone or something unexpected.

Etymology

From un- + expected.