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心外だな,レイ

I searched in two sites and one said surprising the other unthinkable and vexing. How do i know what's right?

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    two sites -- You mean two Japanese-English online dictionaries or automatic translators ?
    – chocolate ♦
    Dec 12, 2017 at 12:25
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    Aren't "surprising", "unthinkable", and "vexing" synonyms more or less?
    – G-Cam
    Dec 12, 2017 at 16:19

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心外 is one word that means both surprising/unexpected and vexing/annoying/unpleasant at the same time. See how monolingual dictionaries define this:

  • 思いもよらないこと。思いがけないこと。思いがけない仕打ちや予想に反した悪い結果などに対して、腹立たしく感じたり残念に思ったりすること。 [デジタル大辞泉]
  • 思いもよらないこと、また、予期に反することが起こって、裏切られたような気持ちになること。 [明鏡国語辞典 第二版]

「心外だな、レイ」 on its own means レイ said something unexpected and it made the speaker upset.

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