unsurprising

adjective

un·​sur·​pris·​ing ˌən-sər-ˈprī-ziŋ 

ˌən-sə-

: not surprising or unexpected

… the unsurprising result of carefully hatched plans …

—David von Drehle

Examples of unsurprising in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

And, in an unsurprising development, the league and the union also again disagree on the accounting. — Evan Drellich, New York Times, 28 July 2026

This is unsurprising given that the fund holds collateralized loan obligations (CLOs), which bundle floating-rate business loans and slice them into tranches by risk. — Michael Foster, Forbes.com, 28 July 2026

Perhaps unsurprising, one study found that only about a quarter of the most popular videos about autism on TikTok were accurate. — Olga Khazan, The Atlantic, 20 July 2026

Late-match brilliance has become unsurprising from Argentina, a South American country of 47 million that’s 33rd in population and 24th in gross domestic product. — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 July 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1671, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for unsurprising

• advertising
• agonising
• amortizing
• analyzing
• anodizing
• appetizing
• atomizing
• authorising
• authorizing
• carbonizing
• carburizing
• catalyzing