Definition of "unaccustomed" []

• Not common or usual: "The legislature has produced a new budget of unaccustomed austerity” ( People). (adjective)
• Not being habituated. Used with to: is still unaccustomed to a life of stress. (adjective)

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• "“Cicero must be really desperate,” he said, with an expression of unaccustomed seriousness, “to ask for help from me."
• "Even now he recalled the unaccustomed world when he woke up, the strange feeling it had given him."
• "Moreover, having very little idea of the lapse of time -- being quite unaccustomed, that is, to reckon events from any fixed era -- primitive man cannot have gained at once a clear conception of age as applied to his fellows."