unaccustomed
English
Etymology
un- + accustomed
Adjective
unaccustomed (comparative more unaccustomed, superlative most unaccustomed)
- Not used to an event or thing, not accustomed.
- 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volumes (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC:
- I again conveyed his key into his pocket, and counterfeiting sleep—though I never once closed my eyes, lay in bed till after he arose and went to prayers—an exercise to which I had long been unaccustomed.
- 1963, Margery Allingham, “Foreword”, in The China Governess[1]:
- He stood transfixed before the unaccustomed view of London at night time, a vast panorama which reminded him […] of some wood engravings far off and magical, in a printshop in his childhood.
- He is unaccustomed to the cold.
Derived terms
Translations
not accustomed
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Verb
unaccustomed
- simple past and past participle of unaccustom