What does unfamiliar mean?

Definitions for unfamiliar
ˌʌn fəˈmɪl yərun·fa·mil·iar

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. unfamiliaradjective

    not known or well known

    "a name unfamiliar to most"; "be alert at night especially in unfamiliar surroundings"

Wiktionary

  1. unfamiliarnoun

    An unfamiliar person; a stranger.

  2. unfamiliaradjective

    Strange, not familiar.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Unfamiliaradjective

    Unaccustomed; such as is not common.

    The matters which we handle, seem, by reason of newness, dark, intricate, unfamiliar. Richard Hooker, b. i.

    Geoffrey Chaucer ’s uncouth, or rather unfamiliar, language, deters many readers. Thomas Warton, Spenser.

ChatGPT

  1. unfamiliar

    Unfamiliar refers to something or someone that is not known, unrecognized, or not experienced before. It describes a state of lacking knowledge or awareness about something, often leading to a sense of uncertainty or discomfort.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Unfamiliar

    un-fa-mil′yar, adj. not familiar.—n. Unfamiliar′ity.—adv. Unfamil′iarly.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of unfamiliar in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of unfamiliar in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of unfamiliar in a Sentence

  1. Claudia Chan:

    Exposure to new and different environments remind us of how big, diverse, and interesting the world is, it expands my ability to be creative and curious and gets my endorphins going. It's also humbling to be new and unfamiliar with different territories.

  2. June Jordan:

    All of Western tradition, from the late bloom of the British Empire right through the early doom of Vietnam, dictates that you do something spectacular and irreversible whenever you find yourself in or whenever you impose yourself upon a wholly unfamiliar situation belonging to somebody else. Frequently it's your soul or your honor or your manhood, or democracy itself, at stake.

  3. Josh Stech:

    Often people are in duress, they are going through a transaction that is unfamiliar and high stakes and typically there is a relocation, divorce or death involved.

  4. Brian Welch:

    Earendel existed so long ago that it may not have had all the same raw materials as the stars around us today, studying Earendel will be Studying Earendel into an era of the universe that we are unfamiliar with, but that led to everything we do know. Studying Earendel's like we've been reading a really interesting book, but we started with the second chapter, and now we will have a chance to see how it all got started.

  5. Billy Wong:

    When you turn on the TV ... You hear people demonstrating, running. They are screaming. These sounds are so strange and unfamiliar to Hong Kong people.

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