| 单词 | unfamiliar |
| 释义 | unfamiliar (once / 1145 pages) adj Unfamiliar things are unknown or unexplored. On your first day at a new school, every single face you see is unfamiliar. Traveling in an unfamiliar city is easier with a map or a GPS, and meeting the unfamiliar people who live there is easier if you speak at least a few words of their language. Some people love eating unfamiliar food — things they've never tasted before — while others aren't fond of it. When something (or someone) is familiar, it's known to you — the word shares a Latin root with family. Add the "not" prefix un-, and you've got unfamiliar. WORD FAMILYunfamiliar: unfamiliarity, unfamiliarly+/familiar: familiarise, familiarity, familiarize, familiarly, familiars, overfamiliar, unfamiliar/familiarise: familiarisation, familiarised, familiarises, familiarising/familiarity: familiarities/familiarize: familiarization, familiarized, familiarizes, familiarizing/unfamiliarity: unfamiliarities USAGE EXAMPLESCheck the “about us” page of unfamiliar sites: is there actual staff? The Guardian(Jan 01, 2017) Sustaining its success, however, is leading the industry into unfamiliar territory. Wall Street Journal(Dec 28, 2016) A glossary allows children to look up the definitions of unfamiliar words. New York Times(Dec 28, 2016) adj not known or well known a name unfamiliar to most be alert at night especially in unfamiliar surroundings Syn|Ant strange, unknown not known before unacquainted, unacquainted with, unfamiliar withhaving little or no knowledge of foreign, strangerelating to or originating in or characteristic of another place or part of the world unknownnot known familiar well known or easily recognized acquaintedhaving fair knowledge of beatenmuch trodden and worn smooth or bare long-familiar, well-knownfrequently experienced; known closely or intimately old(used for emphasis) very familiar knownapprehended with certainty |
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