unprecedented

English

Etymology

From un- +‎ precedent +‎ -ed.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʌnˈpɹɛsɪdɛntɪd/
• (General Australian, Ireland) IPA^(key): /ʌnˈpɹiːsədɛntəd/, /-pɹɛs-/
• (New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ʌnˈpɹesədentəd/, /-pɹiː-/, /-pɹɛs-/, /-tɘd/

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• Hyphenation: un‧pre‧ce‧dent‧ed

Adjective

unprecedented (not comparable)

1. Never before seen, done, or experienced; without precedent.
   • 2011 December 19, Kerry Brown, “Kim Jong-il obituary”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     With the descent of the cold war, relations between the two countries (for this is, to all intents and purposes, what they became after the end of the war) were almost completely broken off, with whole families split for the ensuing decades, some for ever. This event and its after-effects, along with the war against the Japanese in the 1940s, was to cast a long shadow over the years ahead, and led to the creation of the wholly unprecedented worship of Kim Il-sung, and his elevation to almost God-like status. It was also to create the system in which his son was to occupy almost as impossibly elevated a position.

   • 2012, Christoper Zara, Tortured Artists: From Picasso and Monroe to Warhol and Winehouse, the Twisted Secrets of the World's Most Creative Minds, part 1, chapter 1, 27:

     On October 6, 1927, Warner Bros. released The Jazz Singer, the first sound-synched feature film, prompting a technological shift of unprecedented speed and unstoppable force. Within two years, nearly every studio release was a talkie.

Translations

never before seen or done, without precedent

• Arabic: غَيْر مَسْبُوق (ḡayr masbūq)
• Belarusian: беспрэцэдэ́нтны (bjesprecedéntny)
• Bengali: অপূর্ব (bn) (opurbo)
• Bulgarian: безпрецеде́нтен (bg) (bezprecedénten)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 空前的 (zh) (kōngqián de), 前所未有 (zh) (qiánsuǒwèiyǒu), 史無前例 / 史无前例 (zh) (shǐwúqiánlì)

• Czech: bezpříkladný m, bezprecedentní (cs)
• Dutch: zonder precedent, ongekend (nl), onuitgegeven
• Esperanto: senprecedenca
• Finnish: ennennäkemätön, ennen kokematon
• French: sans précédent (fr), inédit (fr)
• German: beispiellos (de); nie da gewesen
• Greek: άνευ προηγουμένου (el) (ánef proïgouménou)
• Hebrew: חֲסַר תַּקְדִּים (he) (khasár takdím)
• Hindi: please add this translation if you can
• Hungarian: példa nélkül álló, példátlan (hu), példa nélküli, addig/mindaddig/korábban/előtte nem tapasztalt/ismert/látott
• Italian: senza precedenti
• Japanese: 前例のない (ja) (ぜんれいのない, zenren-no nai), 空前 (ja) (くうぜん, kūzen)
• Korean: 전례없는 (jeollyeeomneun)
• Latin: inaudītus
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: uovertruffen, uten sidestykke

• Old English: unfōrescēawod
• Persian: بی‌سابقه (bi-sâbeqe)
• Polish: bezprecedensowy (pl)
• Portuguese: sem precedentes, inaudito (pt)
• Russian: беспрецеде́нтный (ru) (besprecedéntnyj)
• Spanish: sin precedente(s), inaudito (es), imprecedentado
• Swedish: exempellös (sv), oöverträffad (sv), makalös (sv); utan motstycke (sv), utan like (sv) (placed after the noun)
• Turkish: emsali olmayan, emsalsiz (tr) (law), eşi benzeri görülmemiş (tr), eşi görülmemiş (tr), görülmemiş (tr)
• Ukrainian: безпрецеде́нтний (bezprecedéntnyj), небува́лий (nebuvályj), безпри́кладний (uk) (bezprýkladnyj)
• Zazaki: bêemsal