Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Unaccustomed \Un`ac*cus"tomed\, a.
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Not used; not habituated; unfamiliar; unused; -- which to.
Chastened as a bullock unaccustomed to yoke.
--Jer. xxxi. 18. -
Not usual; uncommon; strange; new.
What unaccustomed cause procures her hither?
--Shak.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1520s, "not customary, unfamiliar," from un- (1) "not" + past participle of accustom (v.). Meaning "not accustomed or habituated" (to) is first attested 1610s (see accustomed).
Wiktionary
a. Not prepared by life experience to an event or thing, not accustomed.
WordNet
adj. not habituated to; unfamiliar with; "unaccustomed to wearing suits" [ant: accustomed]
not customary or usual; "an unaccustomed pleasure"; "many varieties of unaccustomed foods"; "a new budget of unaccustomed austerity"
Usage examples of "unaccustomed".
The three Corticellis unaccustomed to good fare and wine, ate like a troop, and began to get intoxicated.
Something about the silence that had stretched between her and Benedict, after they introduced themselves for the first time, suggested he was as unaccustomed to entertaining as she was to being entertained.
But Bott had never seen a certified check and was unaccustomed to the ways of business.
The decaying forms of Deep Fields reared up in response to the unaccustomed noise, detached arms and legs, wheels and gears, spinning and cavorting, tumbling and twirling in a Danse Macabre such as Deep Fields had never seen.
First Acolyte Fakir sat most uncomfortably in a very unaccustomed place--the wrong side of his own field desk.
Protected by cushions of good rosy flesh or by a coating of soft down, they go rolling, staggering, dragging along their little unaccustomed feet, shaking in the air their plump hands or featherless wing.
You will comprehend, Monsieur, that there are certain physical phenomena inseparable from the contortions of a globose man labouring through unaccustomed exercises.
CHAPTER XIII During the next half-hour, Hamel was introduced to luxuries to which, in a general way, he was entirely unaccustomed.
There was an unaccustomed urgency in her voice, and it spurred Kof and Lendle to action.
Every passion that is pernicious to society will be let loose on a people unaccustomed to licentiousness and intemperance.
The old warder, obeying the instructions of William Lorimer, beyond keeping the traitor waiting a quarter of an hour, by which delay the darkness desired by William Lorimer drew so much the nearer, having answered the summons, let down the bridge with unaccustomed alacrity of motion.
She napped with the pride while the sun was high, and when she woke up she discovered a whole new set of muscles, all of which ached from their unaccustomed use.
El Paso, driving at an unaccustomed 40 miles per hour, Clark had to agree with the description.
To Rei, who was not unaccustomed to sexual acts, the effect was miraculous.
The chief prelates of the Thearchy sat along the second level, hushed and uncomfortable in their jeweled vestments as if embarrassed by his unaccustomed nearness to divinity.