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Antonyms for unfamiliar

Grammar : Adj

Spell : uhn-fuh-mil-yer

Phonetic Transcription : ˌʌn fəˈmɪl yər

Definition of unfamiliar

Origin : 1590s, from un- (1) "not" + familiar. Related: Unfamiliarly.

adj different, strange
adj inexperienced; not knowing about

Example sentences :

He was not unfamiliar with the lot of one who dines with the learned Von Herzlich.
Extract from : « The Spenders » by Harry Leon Wilson

Do not disturb the prestige which belongs to a distant and unfamiliar power.
Extract from : « Stories from Thucydides » by H. L. Havell

My heart sank and my voice dwindled to a quavering, unfamiliar whisper.
Extract from : « The Bacillus of Beauty » by Harriet Stark

I am so unfamiliar with this room that I haven't any favorite chair.
Extract from : « Her Father's Daughter » by Gene Stratton-Porter

His very desolation, amidst the unfamiliar faces, awed and chilled him.
Extract from : « Night and Morning, Complete » by Edward Bulwer-Lytton

She had never seen her aunt so full of decision, so charged with an unfamiliar power.
Extract from : « Tiverton Tales » by Alice Brown

The rest of the day seemed to Dilly like a confused though not an unfamiliar dream.
Extract from : « Tiverton Tales » by Alice Brown

Buel had just entered the unfamiliar precincts of the Métropole Hotel.
Extract from : « One Day's Courtship » by Robert Barr

To your father and to your mother, at least, I know that none of them are unfamiliar.
Extract from : « Micah Clarke » by Arthur Conan Doyle

The bed on which he lay was soft, comfortable; the room, unfamiliar.
Extract from : « Astounding Stories of Super-Science, November, 1930 » by Various

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