Usually means: Not known or recognized before.
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We found 25 dictionaries that define the word unfamiliar:

General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. unfamiliar: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. unfamiliar: Merriam-Webster
  3. unfamiliar: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. unfamiliar: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. unfamiliar: Collins English Dictionary
  6. unfamiliar: Vocabulary.com
  7. Unfamiliar, unfamiliar: Wordnik
  8. unfamiliar: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. unfamiliar: Wiktionary
  10. unfamiliar: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. unfamiliar: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. unfamiliar: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. unfamiliar: Dictionary.com
  14. unfamiliar: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. unfamiliar: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. unfamiliar: Rhymezone
  17. unfamiliar: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. unfamiliar: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. unfamiliar: FreeDictionary.org
  20. unfamiliar: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. unfamiliar: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. unfamiliar: Legal dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. unfamiliar: Idioms

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▸ adjective:  Strange, not familiar.
▸ noun:  An unfamiliar person; a stranger.

Similar:
unacquainted, unknown, strange, unacquainted with, unfamiliar with, nonfamiliar, unfamiliarized, alien, unfamiliarised, unstrange, more...

Opposite:
familiar, known, recognizable, customary, usual

Phrases:
unfamiliar with, My Unfamiliar Family, unfamiliar name, unfamiliar people, being unfamiliar with something, more...

Colors:
    byzantium,     celadon,     ecru,     gamboge,     heliotrope, more...


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Similar:
unacquainted, unknown, strange, unacquainted with, unfamiliar with, nonfamiliar, unfamiliarized, alien, unfamiliarised, unstrange, more...

Opposite:
familiar, known, recognizable, customary, usual

Phrases:
unfamiliar with, My Unfamiliar Family, unfamiliar name, unfamiliar people, being unfamiliar with something, unfamiliar sensations, unfamiliar surroundings, unfamiliar events, unfamiliar things, more...

Colors:
    byzantium,     celadon,     ecru,     gamboge,     heliotrope, more...



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