Unfamiliar

/ˌʌnfəˈmɪli.ə(ɹ)/

Synonyms for "unfamiliar" (175 found)

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Closest matches (35)

able alien awkward bizarre blankminded breakaway callow curious different dumb emptyempty headedempty-headed enigmatic exotic foreign gauche

Noun(5 words)

alienalien beingsaliensdeep watersforeign student

Adjective(13 words)

alien environmentalien landsbarbarous communitiesexotic creatureforeignforeign bureauforeign culture topicforeign languagesforeign legal entityforeign soilforeign waterforeign wordforeign-languageish

Strong matches (53)

green groping ignorant inane incalculable incognizable incognizant inexperienced innocentknow nothingknow-nothing mysterious naive nescient new novel oblivious obscure odd offbeat

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ordinary originalout of the ordinaryout of this worldout-of-the-wayoutlandish peculiar puzzling rare raw recherche remarkable remote sealed

Adjective(9 words)

illiterate newnew informationnew processnew statesnovel obscureobscure textobscure wording

Adverb(2 words)

more alienmost unknown

Noun(6 words)

more foreignmore obscuremost foreignnew vocabulary itemobscure the issueobscurer

Verb(1 words)

obscurest

Preposition(1 words)

outside danish soil

Related words (87)

simple strangestrange tosui generistentative unaccustomedunaccustomed tounacquaintedunacquainted withunapparent unapprehended unapprized unascertained unaware unbeknown uncharted unclassified uncommon uncomprehending unconventional

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unconversantunconversant withuncustomary undisclosed undiscoverable undiscovered undivulgedundreamed ofundreamed-of unenlightened unexpected unexplained unexplored unexposedunfamiliar withunfathomed unheardunheard ofunheard-of unidentified unilluminated uninformed uninitiateduninitiated inuninstructed unintelligent uninvestigated unique unknowable unknowing unknown unordinary unperceived unplumbed unposted unrevealed unripeunskilled inunsure unsuspectedunthought ofunthought-of untouchedunused tounusual unversedunversed inunwitting unwonted vacuous virgin

Adjective(16 words)

strangestrange devicestrangest unacquainted unknownunknown domainunknown energy quantityunknown notationunknown pressureunknown resultsunknown sampleunknown temperatureunknown valueunknown variableunrecognized unseen

Related word relations

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7 relation types

More general

3 entries

adjective attribute descriptor

More specific

8 entries

new conceptunfamiliar deviceunfamiliar jargonunfamiliar notationunfamiliar protocolunfamiliar termunfamiliar terminologyunknown word

Collocations

5 entries

unfamiliar conceptunfamiliar deviceunfamiliar methodologyunfamiliar notationunfamiliar term

Inflections

2 entries

more unfamiliarmost unfamiliar

Derivations

3 entries

unfamiliarity unfamiliarize unfamiliarly

Antonyms

1 entries

familiar

similar

6 entries

foreign strange unacquaintedunacquainted withunfamiliar withunknown

Sample sentences

11 total sentences available.

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The landscape is unfamiliar to me.

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The tribe worships its ancestors and speaks its own language, and speaks an unfamiliar language.

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The cat was scared by an unfamiliar noise.

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