unwonted
/ʌnˈwɒntɪd//ʌnˈwɑntɪd/
unwonted adjective: not customary or habitual; unusual; infrequent; strange.
Adjective
unwonted (comparative more unwonted, superlative most unwonted)
- 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.1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published...
- 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.1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “Arrived at Home”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 91
- Unused (to); unaccustomed (to) something.
unwonted meaning in Urdu, Malayalam and Kannada
unwonted in Urdu
- خلاف دستور, نادر
unwonted in Malayalam
- unaccustomed, unusual, uncommon
- വഴക്കമല്ലാത്ത, പതിവുസമ്പ്രദായമല്ലാത്ത, ആചാരപ്രകാരല്ലാത്ത, പതിവല്ലാത്ത, സാമാന്യമല്ലാത്ത, അസാമാന്യ
unwonted in Kannada
- ಬಳಕೆಯಲ್ಲಿಲ್ಲದ
Examples of unwonted in a sentence
- And Rick with unwonted diffidence had accepted his exclusion.1986, John le Carré, A Perfect Spy:
- 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.2003, Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything: Black Swan, page 23:
- [...] enjoying in their quiet way the unwonted atmosphere of youth and happiness.2008, Edna Lyall, To Right the Wrong:
Forms of unwonted
| comparative | more unwonted |
|---|---|
| superlative | most unwonted |
Origin of unwonted
From un- + wonted. Redundant in form, as wont is by itself historically the participle adjective. Largely displaced earlier unwont.
Words formed from unwonted
Questions about unwonted
- What does unwonted mean?
- Unwonted means not customary or habitual; unusual; infrequent; strange.
- What is unwonted in Urdu?
- Unwonted in Urdu is خلاف دستور, نادر. See Unwonted meaning in Urdu.
- How do you use unwonted in a sentence?
- And Rick with unwonted diffidence had accepted his exclusion.
- What part of speech is unwonted?
- Unwonted is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce unwonted?
- Unwonted is pronounced /ʌnˈwɑntɪd/ (US).
Words near unwonted in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: unwonted (page history and authors); unwonted (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); unwonted (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); unwonted (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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