"unfamiliar" meaning in English

See unfamiliar in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

IPA: /ˌʌnfəˈmɪli.ə(ɹ)/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-unfamiliar.wav [Southern-England] Forms: more unfamiliar [comparative], most unfamiliar [superlative]
Etymology: un- + familiar Etymology templates: {{prefix|en|un|familiar}} un- + familiar Head templates: {{en-adj}} unfamiliar (comparative more unfamiliar, superlative most unfamiliar)
  1. Strange, not familiar. Translations (not familiar): غَيْر مَأْلُوف (ḡayr maʔlūf) (Arabic), անծանոթ (ancanotʿ) (Armenian), непознат (nepoznat) (Bulgarian), စိမ်း (cim:) (Burmese), 陌生 (mòshēng) (Chinese Mandarin), uvant (Danish), ukendt (Danish), vieras (Finnish), inconnu (French), unbekannt (German), unvertraut (German), άγνωστος (ágnostos) [masculine] (Greek), ασυνήθης (asyníthis) [masculine] (Greek), aduain (Irish), 知られていない (shirarete inai) (alt: しられていない) (Japanese), бейтаныс (beitanys) (Kazakh), aliēnus (Latin), svešs (Latvian), svešāds (Latvian), neparasts (Latvian), uvant (Norwegian Bokmål), ukjent (Norwegian Bokmål), ukjent (Norwegian Nynorsk), uncūþ (Old English), framd (Plautdietsch), onbekaunt (Plautdietsch), nieznany (Polish), незнако́мый (neznakómyj) (Russian), obekant (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-unfamiliar-en-adj-HWpisaB4

Noun

IPA: /ˌʌnfəˈmɪli.ə(ɹ)/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-unfamiliar.wav [Southern-England] Forms: unfamiliars [plural]
Etymology: un- + familiar Etymology templates: {{prefix|en|un|familiar}} un- + familiar Head templates: {{en-noun}} unfamiliar (plural unfamiliars)
  1. An unfamiliar person; a stranger.
    Sense id: en-unfamiliar-en-noun-lCroA9kU Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms prefixed with un- Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 30 70 Disambiguation of English terms prefixed with un-: 45 55

Inflected forms

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