unaccustomed

unaccustomed

English

Etymology

un- +‎ accustomed

Adjective

unaccustomed (comparative more unaccustomed, superlative most unaccustomed)

1. Not used to an event or thing, not accustomed.
   • 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], OCLC 928184292:

     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:

     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

• unaccustomedly
• unaccustomedness

 

Translations

not accustomed

Bulgarian: непривикнал (bg) (nepriviknal) Danish: uvant Ido: nekustumala (io), nekustumata (io) (of things), nekustumanta (of persons) Irish: ainchleachta, neamhchleachtach, núíosach Latin: insuētus, insolens Manx: anchliaghtagh, anoayllagh, anoayltagh, neuchliaghtagh, neuoayllagh Maori: tahangoi Norwegian: Bokmål: uvant Russian: непривыкший (ru) (neprivykšij) Swedish: ovan (sv)

Verb

unaccustomed

1. simple past tense and past participle of unaccustom