UNACCUSTOMED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does unaccustomed mean? 

• UNACCUSTOMED (adjective)
  The adjective UNACCUSTOMED has 1 sense:

1. unusual or unfamiliar

  Familiarity information: UNACCUSTOMED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNACCUSTOMED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Unusual or unfamiliar

Context example:

a new budget of unaccustomed austerity

Similar:

unusual (not usual or common or ordinary)

 Context examples 

My face, neck, and hands, from unaccustomed exposure to the air and sun, were burnt to a berry-brown.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

“You hardly realize, sir, that I am not a man, or that I am unaccustomed to the vagrant, careless life which you and your men seem to lead.”

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Tiny nodules of moisture stood out on his forehead, and his shirt was wet with sweat from the exertion of doing so many unaccustomed things at once.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

He sprang up, and lashed right and left at the mares, who, maddened by the unaccustomed pain, hurled themselves on in a frenzy.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Hitherto they had been denied access to the fire, and they now settled down in a close-drawn circle, like so many dogs, blinking and yawning and stretching their lean bodies in the unaccustomed warmth.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

I am a man quite unaccustomed to observe; and I cannot but believe that the observation of several people, of different ages and positions, all too plainly tending in one direction (and that so natural), is better than mine.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

You could not walk the streets without catching sight of the gipsy-faced, keen-eyed men whose plain clothes told of their thin purses as plainly as their listless air showed their weariness of a life of forced and unaccustomed inaction.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Her training warned her of peril and of wrong, subtle, mysterious, luring; while her instincts rang clarion-voiced through her being, impelling her to hurdle caste and place and gain to this traveller from another world, to this uncouth young fellow with lacerated hands and a line of raw red caused by the unaccustomed linen at his throat, who, all too evidently, was soiled and tainted by ungracious existence.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

I was expressing my satisfaction, when Mrs. Micawber came in; a little more slatternly than she used to be, or so she seemed now, to my unaccustomed eyes, but still with some preparation of herself for company, and with a pair of brown gloves on.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)