Synonym: different, new, novel, rare, strange, uncommon, unique, unusual. Antonym: familiar. Similar words: familiar, be familiar with, family, unfair, civilian, military, liability, militarism. Meaning: adj. not known or well known.
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91 I looked for the bolt of the gun desperately, ham-fisted with the unfamiliar weapon.
92 Community activists say a large proportion of maquila workers come from rural areas and are unfamiliar with industrial safety concerns.
93 Detecting them is a tricky business, especially in unfamiliar cultures and languages.
94 I just got lost in thought. It was unfamiliar territory. Steven Wright 
95 Not only is the subject unknown but the form of words is probably unfamiliar too.
96 Rarely can such a clutch of famous names have faced the stark and unfamiliar spectre of failure on one afternoon.
97 A concert scheduled for April, more daringly, will offer a whole program of unfamiliar work.
98 She stared into the darkness until eventually her eyes adjusted and she could see every object in the unfamiliar room.
99 So again if you're unfamiliar with this yarn and needle arrangement, start by knitting stripes in full needle rib.
100 The song is in Russian, a language unfamiliar to many singers.
101 One of the parties may be unfamiliar with a particular practice.
102 Driving on the left-hand side of the road was unfamiliar and a little frightening.
103 The next cluster of ugly barracks surrounded by barbed wire would be even bleaker because it was unfamiliar.
104 However well and clearly you speak, you will not be understood if you use unfamiliar words.sentencedict .com
105 Earl Ferrers, whose closest friends would not call him an intellectual, was unfamiliar with the arcane procedure of the House.
106 Liberalization of a traditional electricity system creates an entire complex of unfamiliar risks and responsibilities-including the risk of system collapse.
107 I was thrilled at the prospect ahead of me but diffident and embarrassed at joining a community so totally unfamiliar.
108 If people are already ill at ease in unfamiliar surroundings the order of service becomes another pressure.
109 Usually screamingly conspicuous because they're such a new, unfamiliar concept for most tourists.
110 Organic farming techniques promise good sustainable yields, but they are still unfamiliar to almost all commercial farmers.
111 Advancing on a narrow front, the bristling schiltrons threw their opponents into confusion on such unfamiliar, unstable ground.
112 The book is aimed at new graduates who are unfamiliar with polymers, but it is also suitable for undergraduates.
113 When she woke, Lily would lie for a little while in the dark, puzzled by the unfamiliar shape of the room.
114 That, his day's toil having been deferred, he wanders through unfamiliar woods with unsure footsteps.
115 Their very vocabulary was unfamiliar to him, and seemed to belong to fiction and the stage.
116 Living in an unfamiliar environment, surrounded by strangers, people felt uneasy, lost, and disoriented.
117 She had never liked being in the dark, especially being in unfamiliar places in the dark.
118 Some of these expressions may be unfamiliar to your students.
119 Players will tend to perform better when they are among friends than when they are placed in unfamiliar surroundings.
120 The large coiled springs and unfamiliar machinery tempt one to try to commandeer the thing and ride it into another era.
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