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

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. unfamiliaradjective

   not known or well known

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

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. unfamiliarnoun

   An unfamiliar person; a stranger.

2. unfamiliaradjective

   Strange, not familiar.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

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.

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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 DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Unfamiliar

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

How to pronounce unfamiliar?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say unfamiliar in sign language?

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. Ellyn Satter:

   Something appears to happen cognitively and now familiar food is unfamiliar and they don't want to eat it, if the parent can ride it out, when they become preschoolers, they become less skeptical of unfamiliar food.

3. Cynthia Ozick:

   Nothing is so awesomely unfamiliar as the familiar that discloses itself at the end of a journey.

4. 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.

5. Thomas Mann:

   Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous- to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.

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