View synonyms for unfamiliar

unfamiliar

[ uhn-fuh-mil-yer ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

not familiar; not acquainted with or conversant about:
to be unfamiliar with a subject.
different; unaccustomed; unusual; strange:
an unfamiliar treat.
Synonyms: new, novel, curious

unfamiliar

/ ˌʌnfəˈmɪljə; ˌʌnfəˌmɪlɪˈærɪtɪ /

First recorded in 1585–95; un- ¹ + familiar

For those unfamiliar, soba is buckwheat noodle dish—and they proved much more popular amongst the public.

For those unfamiliar with Michals, an annotated biography and useful essays are included.

Artists like Orsola Maddalena Caccia will be unfamiliar to most, and yet she has six works in the exhibition.

Time plus desire can you lead you to some strange unfamiliar places.

In Crimson Room, players awoke in an unfamiliar room with no way of knowing how to escape.

In search of a lost handkerchief, they regained the Clayhanger premises by an unfamiliar side door.

He had been something real and tangible in that shadowy place—something familiar in an unfamiliar world.

Weston was in no mood to discuss questions of that kind, though the curious sensation was not altogether unfamiliar to him.

There was a slight, persistent tingling vibration in everything that was unfamiliar, too.

This book was the work of some one unfamiliar, unrecognizable, forgotten by the happy woman that she was.

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