Uncalculated vs Unexpected - What's the difference?
uncalculated | unexpected | Related terms |
Not calculated; lacking forethought
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Not expected, anticipated or foreseen.
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Uncalculated is a related term of unexpected.
As adjectives the difference between uncalculated and unexpected
is that uncalculated is not calculated; lacking forethought while unexpected is not expected, anticipated or foreseen.uncalculated
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unexpected
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(en adjective)citation, passage=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.}}
- The windmill presented unexpected difficulties.