unhoped-for

1. 1.

   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”

   Synonymsunhopedunthoughtunthought-of

   Similarunexpected

Questions about unhoped-for

What does unhoped-for mean?

unhoped-for means "so unexpected as to have not been imagined".

How many syllables are in unhoped-for?

unhoped-for has 4 syllables: un-ho-ped--for. The stress falls on "ho".

What is another word for unhoped-for?

Close synonyms include unhoped, unthought, unthought-of. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is unhoped-for a common word?

unhoped-for is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.