Meanings
- not comparableNot hoped for; unexpected.
The Prince of peace would like himself confer / A gift unhoped, without the price of war
1660, [John] Dryden, Astraea Redux2 more examples
With these words he gave him a letter directed, as he had said, but not sealed, which Horatio, after he had manifested the sense he had of so unhoped an obligation, reminded him of.
1744, Eliza Fowler Haywood, The Fortunate FoundlingsMen on cycles, lean-faced, unkempt, scorched along every country lane, shouting of unhoped deliverance, shouting to gaunt, staring figures of despair.
1898, H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, London: William Heinemann, page 289
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveso unexpected as to have not been imagined
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
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