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Word Meanings - UNEXPECTED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Not expected; coming without warning; sudden. -- Un`ex*pect"ed*ly, adv. -- Un`ex*pect"ed*ness, n.

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  • UNEXPECTATION
    Absence of expectation; want of foresight. Bp. Hall.
  • UNEXPECTED
    Not expected; coming without warning; sudden. -- Un`ex*pect"ed*ly, adv. -- Un`ex*pect"ed*ness, n.
  • QUICKBEAM
    See TREE
  • ABRUPTNESS
    1. The state of being abrupt or broken; craggedness; ruggedness; steepness. 2. Suddenness; unceremonious haste or vehemence; as, abruptness of style or manner.
  • QUICKSTEP
    A lively, spirited march; also, a lively style of dancing.
  • QUICKNESS
    1. The condition or quality of being quick or living; life. Touch it with thy celestial quickness. Herbert. 2. Activity; briskness; especially, rapidity of motion; speed; celerity; as, quickness of wit. This deed . . . must send thee hence With
  • QUICKSILVER
    The metal mercury; -- so called from its resemblance to liquid silver. Quicksilver horizon, a mercurial artificial horizon. See under Horizon. -- Quicksilver water, a solution of mercury nitrate used in artificial silvering; quick water.
  • QUICKHATCH
    The wolverine.
  • SUDDEN
    soudain, L. subitaneus, fr. subitus sudden, that has come unexpectedly, p.p. of subire to come on, to steal upon; sub under, 1. Happening without previous notice or with very brief notice; coming unexpectedly, or without the common preparation;
  • SUDDENTY
    Suddenness; a sudden. On a suddenty, on a sudden. Sir W. Scott.
  • QUICKEN TREE
    The European rowan tree; -- called also quickbeam, and quickenbeam. See Rowan tree. (more info) aspen or some tree with quivering leaves; cf. G. quickenbaum,
  • QUICKWORK
    All the submerged section of a vessel's planking. The planking between the spirketing and the clamps. The short planks between the portholes.
  • QUICK-WITTED
    Having ready wit Shak.
  • QUICKENS
    Quitch grass.
  • QUICK-SCENTED
    Acute of smell.
  • QUICKSILVERING
    The mercury and foil on the back of a looking-glass.
  • QUICKLY
    Speedily; with haste or celerity; soon; without delay; quick.
  • QUICK
    cwicu, cwucu, cucu, living; akin to OS. quik, D. kwik, OHG. quec, chec, G. keck bold, lively, Icel. kvikr living, Goth. qius, Lith. qyvas, Russ. zhivoi, L. vivus living, vivere to live, Gr. bi`os life, Skr. jiva living, jiv to live. Cf. Biography,
  • QUICKSET
    A living plant set to grow, esp. when set for a hedge; specifically, the hawthorn.
  • HASTY
    Proceeding from, or indicating, a quick temper. Take no unkindness of his hasty words. Shak 6. Forward; early; first ripe. "As the hasty fruit before the summer." Is. xxviii. 4. (more info) 1. Involving haste; done, made, etc., in haste; as,
  • ENQUICKEN
    To quicken; to make alive. Dr. H. More.
  • OVERHASTY
    Too hasty; precipitate; rash. -- O"ver*has"ti*ly, adv. -- O`ver*has"ti*ness, n.
  • REQUICKEN
    To quicken anew; to reanimate; to give new life to. Shak.
  • DOUBLE-QUICK
    Of, or performed in, the fastest time or step in marching, next to the run; as, a double-quick step or march.

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