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Unexpected vs Undesignedly - What's the difference?

unexpected | undesignedly |

As an adjective unexpected

is not expected, anticipated or foreseen.

As an adverb undesignedly is

in a way that was not designed; as an unexpected consequence.

unexpected

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Not expected, anticipated or foreseen.
  • * , title=The Mirror and the Lamp
    • , chapter=2 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.

    Synonyms

    * See

    Antonyms

    * expected

    Derived terms

    * unexpectedly * unexpectedness

    Related terms

    * unplanned * incidental * contingent * bolt from the blue * out of the blue

    undesignedly

    English

    Adverb

    (-)
  • In a way that was not designed; as an unexpected consequence.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1838, author=American Anti-Slavery Society, title=The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 2 of 4, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=But we cannot close our remarks upon the apprenticeship system without noticing one good end which it has undesignedly accomplished, i.e., the illustration of the good disposition of the colored people . }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1902, author=John Lord, title=Beacon Lights of History, Volume XIII, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Yet it would be difficult to name two writers whose works have been more completely, though undesignedly , colored by their personal feelings. }}