Synonyms for unexpectedly
un·ex·pect·ed·ly

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1. unexpectedlyadverb

   Antonyms:
   expectedly

2. unexpectedlyadverb

   Antonyms:
   expectedly

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. unexpectedly, out of the blueadverb

   in a way that was not expected

   "her brother showed up at the wedding out of the blue"

   Synonyms:
   circumstantially, accidentally, out of the blue, by chance

2. by chance, accidentally, circumstantially, unexpectedlyadverb

   without advance planning

   "they met accidentally"

   Synonyms:
   by luck, incidentally, unintentionally, accidentally, circumstantially, perchance, by chance, out of the blue, haply, minutely

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1. List of paraphrases for "unexpectedly":

   suddenly, abruptly, surprisingly, sharply

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1. Tallahassee Police Chief Michael DeLeo:

   The officers stopped the vehicle and were following their training as they had the suspected armed adults step out of the truck, when, unexpectedly, a 2-year-old girl climbed out of the truck and imitated her parents by walking towards the officers with her hands raised.

2. Cicero:

   The injuries that befall us unexpectedly are less severe than those which are deliberately anticipated.

3. Mike Duggan:

   The video is clear that the officer was suddenly and unexpectedly fired upon, public confidence requires citizens to be able to judge for themselves the actions of our officers. I commend Chief Craig for moving so quickly to release the video publicly.

4. Professor Deborah Fuller:

   In our paper, we replicated experimentally in monkeys a situation that [was] similar to the 2009 influenza pandemic, where a new strain of influenza unexpectedly emerged and current vaccines offered little or no protection, we vaccinated the monkeys with the same antigens included in the inactivated vaccine that year, but then also added, via our DNA vaccine, the genetic code for conserved influenza antigens. When we challenged the monkeys with the 2009 pandemic strain of influenza, we saw significant protection in the group that got the vaccine. They experienced only a transient low infection that was quickly cleared, when compared to the group that didn’t get the vaccine.

5. Clive Staples Lewis:

   When we lose one blessing, another is often, most unexpectedly, given in its place.