unfamiliaradjective
uk/ʌn.fəˈmɪl.i.ər/us/ʌn.fəˈmɪl.i.jɚ/B2 not known to you:
I noticed several unfamiliar faces in the meeting room.
His name was unfamiliar to me.
be unfamiliar with sth
B2 to not have any knowledge or experience of something:
Many older people are unfamiliar with computers.
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- Many of the technical terms were unfamiliar to me.
- She felt increasingly nervous as she walked across a room full of unfamiliar faces.
- I'm afraid you'll have to explain things to me, I'm unfamiliar with this system.
- He sounded very much like someone I knew, but his face was unfamiliar.
- People can often be hostile to anything foreign or unfamiliar.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Unknown and unfamiliar
- a pig in a poke idiom
- alien
- foreign
- hidden
- lesser-known
- obscure
- obscurity
- pig
- shadowy
- strange
- strangeness
- TBD
- uncharted
- uncommon
- unexplored
- unheard-of
- unknown
- unused
- vocabulary
- wild card
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