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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Examples
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“Cicero must be really desperate,” he said, with an expression of unaccustomed seriousness, “to ask for help from me.
Imperium Robert Harris 2006
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“Cicero must be really desperate,” he said, with an expression of unaccustomed seriousness, “to ask for help from me.
Imperium Robert Harris 2006
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Even now he recalled the unaccustomed world when he woke up, the strange feeling it had given him.
To Let 2004
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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But still, how to initiate such unaccustomed intercourse?
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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But still, how to initiate such unaccustomed intercourse?
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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