UNWONTED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does unwonted mean? 

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

1. unaccustomed or unusual

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNWONTED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Unaccustomed or unusual

Context example:

an unwonted softness in her face

Similar:

uncommon (not common or ordinarily encountered; unusually great in amount or remarkable in character or kind)

 Context examples 

Considering that the price of dogs had been boomed skyward by the unwonted demand, it was not an unfair sum for so fine an animal.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

My pulse rushed up in an unwonted manner, yet my rage mounted with it.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

There was a burgeoning within him of strange feelings and unwonted impulses.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

All this I enjoyed often and fully, free, unwatched, and almost alone: for this unwonted liberty and pleasure there was a cause, to which it now becomes my task to advert.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

As I entered I saw, it is true, an unwonted tidiness, but the old landmarks were all in their place.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

For six years her sons had chafed under an unwonted peace.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I began, by being singularly cheerful and light-hearted; all sorts of half-forgotten things to talk about, came rushing into my mind, and made me hold forth in a most unwonted manner.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

As she spoke, Lucy turned crimson, though it was only momentarily, for her poor wasted veins could not stand for long such an unwonted drain to the head.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

It was more than a month's hard-earned wages, and it reduced his stock of money amazingly; but when he added the hundred dollars he was to receive from the Examiner to the four hundred and twenty dollars that was the least The Youth's Companion could pay him, he felt that he had reduced the perplexity the unwonted amount of money had caused him.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Early in the trip this might have taken place had it not been for an unwonted accident.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)