unwonted

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Scrabble points
12
Words With Friends
15
Letters
8
Pronunciation
/ʌnˈwɑntɪd/
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/ʌnˈwɑntɪd/ · /ʌnˈwɒntɪd/

Definition of unwonted

2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. Not customary or habitual; unusual; infrequent; strange.
    “Be of comfort; / My father's of a better nature, sir, / Than he appears by speech: this is unwonted, / Which now came from him.”
    “After the first flutter of conscious delight which his entrance had caused, she was able to talk to him cheerfully, and her spirits rose with the unwonted enjoyment.”
    “And Rick with unwonted diffidence had accepted his exclusion. Now with the same diffidence he came, looking trim and loving and mysteriously humble.”
    “...And ocean salinity, of course, represented only the merest sliver of my ignorance. I didn't know what a proton was, didn't know a quark from a quasar, didn't know how geologists could look at a layer of rock on a canyon wall and tell you how old it was, didn't know anything, really. I became gripped by a quiet, unwonted but insistent urge to know a little more about these matters and to understand above all how people figured them out.”
    “[...] enjoying in their quiet way the unwonted atmosphere of youth and happiness.”
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adj

  1. Not customary or habitual; unusual; infrequent; strange.
    “Be of comfort; / My father's of a better nature, sir, / Than he appears by speech: this is unwonted, / Which now came from him.”
    “After the first flutter of conscious delight which his entrance had caused, she was able to talk to him cheerfully, and her spirits rose with the unwonted enjoyment.”
    “And Rick with unwonted diffidence had accepted his exclusion. Now with the same diffidence he came, looking trim and loving and mysteriously humble.”
    “...And ocean salinity, of course, represented only the merest sliver of my ignorance. I didn't know what a proton was, didn't know a quark from a quasar, didn't know how geologists could look at a layer of rock on a canyon wall and tell you how old it was, didn't know anything, really. I became gripped by a quiet, unwonted but insistent urge to know a little more about these matters and to understand above all how people figured them out.”
    “[...] enjoying in their quiet way the unwonted atmosphere of youth and happiness.”
  2. (archaic)Unused (to); unaccustomed (to) something.

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Etymology

From un- + wonted. Redundant in form, as wont is by itself historically the participle adjective. Largely displaced earlier unwont.

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