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Syllable division and stress derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
unhoped-for is an adjective meaning "so unexpected as to have not been imagined". It carries one recorded sense.
so unexpected as to have not been imagined
“an unhoped-for piece of luck”
“an unthought advantage”
“an unthought-of place to find the key”
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for unhoped-for come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.