Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Not common or usual.
  • adjective Not being habituated. Used with to:

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Not accustomed; not used; not made familiar or habituated.
  • Not according to custom; not familiar; unusual; extraordinary; strange.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Not used; not habituated; unfamiliar; unused; -- with to.
  • adjective Not usual; uncommon; strange; new.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Not prepared by life experience to an event or thing, not accustomed

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective not habituated to; unfamiliar with
  • adjective not customary or usual

Etymologies

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un- +‎ accustomed

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Examples

  • “Cicero must be really desperate,” he said, with an expression of unaccustomed seriousness, “to ask for help from me.

    Imperium Robert Harris 2006

  • “Cicero must be really desperate,” he said, with an expression of unaccustomed seriousness, “to ask for help from me.

    Imperium Robert Harris 2006

  • Even now he recalled the unaccustomed world when he woke up, the strange feeling it had given him.

    To Let 2004

  • Moreover, having very little idea of the lapse of time -- being quite unaccustomed, that is, to reckon events from any fixed era -- primitive man cannot have gained at once a clear conception of age as applied to his fellows.

    A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume I: The Beginnings of Science 1904

  • Even now he recalled the unaccustomed world when he woke up, the strange feeling it had given him.

    The Forsyte Saga, Volume III. Awakening To Let John Galsworthy 1900

  • Even now he recalled the unaccustomed world when he woke up, the strange feeling it had given him.

    The Forsyte Saga - Complete John Galsworthy 1900

  • Even now he recalled the unaccustomed world when he woke up, the strange feeling it had given him.

    Complete Project Gutenberg John Galsworthy Works John Galsworthy 1900

  • This, according to the historian Kerby Miller, was due to the fact that the early Irish immigrants were simply “unaccustomed to work practices in their adopted country.”

    A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010

  • But still, how to initiate such unaccustomed intercourse?

    The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

  • But still, how to initiate such unaccustomed intercourse?

    The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

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