unfamiliar

Speech parts

1. unfamiliar - Noun

2. unfamiliar - Adjective

Meaning

not known or well known

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Phrases with the word

Examples

Politics can be likened to driving at night over unfamiliar hills and mountains. Close attention must be paid to what the beam can reach and the next bend. David Trimble

I am trying to be unfamiliar with what I'm doing. John Cage

Englishmen are babes in philosophy and so prefer faction-fighting to the labor of its unfamiliar thought. William Butler Yeats

The word is clear only to the kind who on peak or plain, from dark northern ice-fields to the hot wet jungles, through all wine and want, through lies and unfamiliar truth, dark or light, are governed by the unknown gods, and though each man knows the law, no man may give tongue to it. Stephen Crane

Because we are so unfamiliar with the motivation of the people we are dealing with, we are more afraid of them than we need to be. John le Carré

It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

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