UNTHOUGHT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does unthought mean? 

• UNTHOUGHT (adjective)
  The adjective UNTHOUGHT has 1 sense:

1. so unexpected as to have not been imagined

  Familiarity information: UNTHOUGHT used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNTHOUGHT (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

So unexpected as to have not been imagined

Synonyms:

unhoped; unhoped-for; unthought; unthought-of

Context example:

an unthought-of place to find the key

Similar:

unexpected (not expected or anticipated)

 Context examples 

Fanny with doubting feelings had risen to meet him, but sank down again on finding herself undistinguished in the dusk, and unthought of.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Marianne was restored to her from a danger in which, as she now began to feel, her own mistaken judgment in encouraging the unfortunate attachment to Willoughby, had contributed to place her;—and in her recovery she had yet another source of joy unthought of by Elinor.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

His demands and your inexperience together, on a small, very small income, must have brought on distresses which would not be the LESS grievous to you, from having been entirely unknown and unthought of before.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)