Surprise vs. Unexpected — What's the Difference?

To cause to feel wonder, astonishment, or amazement, as at something unanticipated

Occurring without warning; unforeseen.

To encounter or discover suddenly or unexpectedly; take or catch unawares

Not expected, anticipated or foreseen.

To attack or capture suddenly and without warning

(rare) Someone or something unexpected.

To cause (someone) to do or say something unintended or to be in an unintended condition

Not expected; coming without warning; sudden.

To elicit or detect through surprise

Not expected or anticipated;

The act of surprising or the condition of being surprised

Not foreseen;

Something, such as an unexpected encounter, event, or gift, that surprises.

Made necessary by an unexpected situation or emergency;

Something unexpected.

Causing surprise or amazement by not being expected;

The feeling that something unexpected has happened.

Not planned;

(transitive) To cause (someone) to feel unusually alarmed or delighted by something unexpected.

Happening or coming quickly and without warning;

(transitive) To do something to (a person) that they are not expecting, as a surprise.

(intransitive) To undergo or witness something unexpected.

(intransitive) To cause surprise.

(transitive) To attack unexpectedly.

(transitive) To take unawares.

The act of coming upon, or taking, unawares; the act of seizing unexpectedly; surprisal; as, the fort was taken by surprise.

The state of being surprised, or taken unawares, by some act or event which could not reasonably be foreseen; emotion excited by what is sudden and strange; a suddenly excited feeling of wonder or astonishment.

Anything that causes such a state or emotion.

A dish covered with a crust of raised paste, but with no other contents.

To come or fall suddenly and unexpectedly; to take unawares; to seize or capture by unexpected attack.

To strike with wonder, astonishment, or confusion, by something sudden, unexpected, or remarkable; to confound; as, his conduct surprised me.

To lead (one) to do suddenly and without forethought; to bring (one) into some unexpected state; - with into; as, to be surprised into an indiscretion; to be surprised into generosity.

To hold possession of; to hold.

The astonishment you feel when something totally unexpected happens to you

A sudden unexpected event

The act of surprising someone

Cause to be surprised;

Come upon or take unawares;

Attack by storm; attack suddenly