单词 | unfamiliar |
释义 | unfamiliaradj. (un- prefix1 1.) ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > want of knowledge, ignorance > that which is unknown > [adjective] uncouthc897 neweOE fremdc950 unknownOE unseena1200 unketha1275 unkedc1275 strange13.. disguisyc1330 unknowedc1380 aliena1382 unhearda1382 unkenneda1400 ranishc1400 ignorant?a1475 unwittenc1485 unbekend1513 unacquainted1551 unkent1579 unwitted1582 unfamiliar1593 unsounded1594 incognite1609 ignote1623 in the urn1658 unfathomed1659 unexperienced1698 unknown-of1700 undiscovered1707 inaudite1708 darka1727 unascertained1751 unwist1757 unknownst1805 unbeknown1824 unbeknownst1848 unsampled1890 1593 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie i. i. 48 The matters which we handle seeme by reason of newnesse..darke, intricate and vnfamiliar. 1648 R. Herrick Hesperides sig. K4v Because thou prizest things that are Curious, and un-familiar. c1698 J. Locke Thoughts on Conduct of Understanding §32 (1754) 127 Abstruse and unfamiliar ideas which the mind is not yet thoroughly accustomed to. 1753 Warton Observ. Spenser's F.Q. 141 It must be confest that his uncouth or rather unfamiliar language has deterr'd many from perusing him. 1829 E. Bulwer-Lytton Devereux II. ii. vi. 108 His face did not seem unfamiliar to me. 1848 C. Dickens Dombey & Son xlix. 481 Looking without interest or recognition at the unfamiliar walls around her. 1891 F. W. Farrar Darkness & Dawn II. xli. 72 When Onesimus recovered full consciousness he did not recognise his unfamiliar surroundings. Derivatives unfaˈmiliarness n. ΚΠ 1881 Times 17 May 4/6 A multitude of little changes of this kind..arouse a general sense of unfamiliarness. Draft additions 1993 unfaˈmiliarly adv. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > unaccustomedness or state of disuse > [adverb] > in an unfamiliar manner unfamiliarly1895 1895 I. K. Funk et al. Standard Dict. Eng. Lang. II. Unfamiliarly. 1979 C. E. Schorske Fin-de-Siècle Vienna vii. 362 It was a prophetic Lebensgefühl that produced the explosion in the garden: a humanism unfamiliarly mixed with nihilism. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < adj.1593 |
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