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Unfamiliar
//ˌʌnfəˈmɪli.ə(ɹ)//
Synonyms for "unfamiliar" (123 found)
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Closest matches (25)
Strong matches (37)
Related words (61)
unapparentunapprehendedunapprizedunascertainedunawareunbeknownunchartedunclassifieduncommonuncomprehendingunconventionalunconversantunconversant withuncustomaryundisclosedundiscoverableundiscoveredundivulgedundreamed ofundreamed-of
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unenlightenedunexpectedunexplainedunexploredunexposedunfamiliar withunfathomedunheardunheard ofunheard-ofunidentifiedunilluminateduninformeduninitiateduninitiated inuninstructedunintelligentuninvestigateduniqueunknowableunknowingunordinaryunperceivedunplumbedunpostedunrevealedunripeunskilled inunsureunsuspectedunthought ofunthought-ofuntouchedunused tounusualunversedunversed inunwittingunwontedvacuousvirgin
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Antonyms
1 entriesSynonyms
2 entriesderived from
1 entriesrelated to
5 entriessimilar
8 entriesTranslations
31 translations across 23 languages.
Arabic
1 entries- غَيْر مَأْلُوف adj (not familiar)
Armenian
1 entries- անծանոթ adj (not familiar)
Bulgarian
1 entries- непознат adj (not familiar)
Burmese
1 entries- စိမ်း adj (not familiar)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 陌生 adj (not familiar)
Danish
2 entries- ukendt adj (not familiar)
- uvant adj (not familiar)
Finnish
1 entries- vieras adj (not familiar)
French
1 entries- inconnu adj (not familiar)
German
2 entries- unbekannt adj (not familiar)
- unvertraut adj (not familiar)
Greek
2 entries- άγνωστος adj (not familiar)
- ασυνήθης adj (not familiar)
Irish
2 entries- aduain adj (not familiar)
- coimhthíoch adj (not familiar)
Japanese
1 entries- 知られていない adj (not familiar)
Kazakh
1 entries- бейтаныс adj (not familiar)
Latin
1 entries- aliēnus adj (not familiar)
Latvian
3 entries- neparasts adj (not familiar)
- svešs adj (not familiar)
- svešāds adj (not familiar)
Norwegian Bokmål
2 entries- ukjent adj (not familiar)
- uvant adj (not familiar)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- ukjent adj (not familiar)
Old English
1 entries- uncūþ adj (not familiar)
Plautdietsch
2 entries- framd adj (not familiar)
- onbekaunt adj (not familiar)
Polish
1 entries- nieznany adj (not familiar)
Russian
1 entries- незнако́мый adj (not familiar)
Spanish
1 entries- no / poco familiar adj (not familiar)
Swedish
1 entries- obekant adj (not familiar)
Sample sentences
11 total sentences available.
The landscape is unfamiliar to me.
Source: tatoeba (42415)
The tribe worships its ancestors and speaks its own language, and speaks an unfamiliar language.
Source: tatoeba (44184)
The cat was scared by an unfamiliar noise.
Source: tatoeba (44552)
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.