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adjective
- 1. unaccustomed or unusual: "there was an unwonted gaiety in her manner"
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adjective [ before noun ] formal uk / ʌnˈwəʊn.tɪd / us / ʌnˈwɑːn.t̬ɪd / Add to word list. unusual; not often experienced or shown: He sprang to the phone with unwonted eagerness. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Unique and unusual. accidental. alt- alternative. atypically. be marked out as something idiom. flip the script idiom.
1. : being out of the ordinary : rare, unusual. 2. : not accustomed by experience. unwontedly adverb. unwontedness noun. Synonyms. aberrant. aberrated. abnormal. anomalous. atypical. especial. exceeding. exceptional. extraordinaire. extraordinary. freak. odd.
Unwonted is a pretty old-fashioned word now, meaning something unusual or out of the ordinary. Nowadays, unwonted is a pretty unwonted word itself.
noun. Word Frequency. unwonted in American English. (ʌnˈwɔntɪd ; ʌnˈwoʊntɪd ; ʌnˈwɑntɪd ; ʌnˈwʌntɪd ) adjective. 1. not common, usual, or habitual; rare. to speak with unwonted severity. 2. Archaic. not accustomed or used. usually with to. Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
Unwonted definition: not customary or usual; rare. See examples of UNWONTED used in a sentence.
unusual; not often experienced or shown: He sprang to the phone with unwonted eagerness. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Unique and unusual. accidental. alt- alternative. atypically. be marked as something idiom. flip the script idiom. guerrilla. home brew. incongruous. peerless. personalization. personalized. quaintly. quaintness.
Jun 2, 2024 · unwonted (comparative more unwonted, superlative most unwonted) Not customary or habitual; unusual; infrequent; strange.
Define unwonted. unwonted synonyms, unwonted pronunciation, unwonted translation, English dictionary definition of unwonted. adj. Not usual or accustomed: "Her unwonted breach of delicacy ... perplexed him" . un·wont′ed·ly adv. un·wont′ed·ness n.
Definition of unwonted adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
Definitions of 'unwonted' 1. out of the ordinary; unusual. [...] 2. archaic. unaccustomed; unused. [...] More. Synonyms of 'unwonted' • unusual, rare, extraordinary, unexpected [...] More. Examples of 'unwonted' in a sentence.
