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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.
Unwonted definition: not customary or usual; rare. See examples of UNWONTED used in a sentence.
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.
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.
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.
Unwonted Definition. ŭn-wôntĭd, -wōn-, -wŭn- Meanings. Synonyms. Sentences. Definition Source. Origin. Adjective. Filter. adjective. Not common, usual, or habitual; uncharacteristic or atypical. To speak with unwonted severity. Webster's New World. Similar definitions. Not accustomed or used. Webster's New World. Similar definitions.
unwonted meaning, definition, what is unwonted: unusual and not what you expect to happe...: Learn more.
