Word Meanings - UNWONTED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Not wonted; unaccustomed; unused; not made familiar by practice; as, a child unwonted to strangers. Milton. 2. Uncommon; unusual; infrequent; rare; as, unwonted changes. "Unwonted lights." Byron. -- Un*wont"ed*ly, adv. -- Un*wont"ed*ness, n.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of UNWONTED)

• Extraordinary
• Unwonted
• uncommon
• peculiar
• unusual
• unprecedented
• wonderful
• marvelous
• prodigious
• monstrous
• remarkable
• strange
• preposterous

Related words: (words related to UNWONTED)

• PECULIARIZE
  To make peculiar; to set appart or assign, as an exclusive possession. Dr. John Smith.
• UNWONTED
  1. Not wonted; unaccustomed; unused; not made familiar by practice; as, a child unwonted to strangers. Milton. 2. Uncommon; unusual; infrequent; rare; as, unwonted changes. "Unwonted lights." Byron. -- Un*wont"ed*ly, adv. -- Un*wont"ed*ness, n.
• UNCOMMON
  Not common; unusual; infrequent; rare; hence, remarkable; strange; as, an uncommon season; an uncommon degree of cold or heat; uncommon courage. Syn. -- Rare; scarce; infrequent; unwonted. -- Un*com"mon*ly, adv. -- Un*com"mon*ness, n.
• PECULIARNESS
  The quality or state of being peculiar; peculiarity. Mede.
• WONDERFUL
  Adapted to excite wonder or admiration; surprising; strange; astonishing. Syn. -- Marvelous; amazing. See Marvelous. -- Won"der*ful*ly, adv. -- Won"der*ful*ness, n.
• MARVELOUS
  1. Exciting wonder or surprise; astonishing; wonderful. This is the Lord's doing; it is marvelous in our eyes. Ps. cxiii. 23. 2. Partaking of the character of miracle, or superna The marvelous fable includes whatever is supernatural, and especially
• MONSTROUS
  1. Marvelous; strange. 2. Having the qualities of a monster; deviating greatly from the natural form or character; abnormal; as, a monstrous birth. Locke. He, therefore, that refuses to do good to them whom he is bound to love ... is unnatural
• PECULIARLY
  In a peculiar manner; particulary; in a rare and striking degree; unusually.
• PECULIAR
  1. One's own; belonging solely or especially to an individual; not possessed by others; of private, personal, or characteristic possession and use; not owned in common or in participation. And purify unto himself a peculiar people. Titus ii. 14.
• PRODIGIOUSNESS
  The quality or state of being prodigious; the state of having qualities that excite wonder or astonishment; enormousness; vastness.
• UNUSUALITY
  Unusualness. Poe.
• PRODIGIOUSLY
  1. Enormously; wonderfully; astonishingly; as, prodigiously great. 2. Very much; extremely; as, he was prodigiously pleased. Pope.
• REMARKABLE
  Worthy of being remarked or noticed; noticeable; conspicuous; hence, uncommon; extraordinary. 'T is remarkable, that they Talk most who have the least to say. Prior. There is nothing left remarlable Beneath the visiting moon. Shak. Syn.
• STRANGENESS
  The state or quality of being strange (in any sense of the adjective).
• STRANGE
  estrange, F. étrange, fr. L. extraneus that is without, external, foreign, fr. extra on the outside. See Extra, and cf. Estrange, 1. Belonging to another country; foreign. "To seek strange strands." Chaucer. One of the strange queen's lords. Shak.
• MARVELOUSLY
  In a marvelous manner; wonderfully; strangely.
• PREPOSTEROUS
  1. Having that first which ought to be last; inverted in order. The method I take may be censured as preposterous, because I thus treat last of the antediluvian earth, which was first in the order of nature. Woodward. 2. Contrary to nature
• STRANGELY
  1. As something foreign, or not one's own; in a manner adapted to something foreign and strange. Shak. 2. In the manner of one who does not know another; distantly; reservedly; coldly. You all look strangely on me. Shak. I do in justice charge
• STRANGER
  One not privy or party an act, contract, or title; a mere intruder or intermeddler; one who interferes without right; as, actual possession of land gives a good title against a stranger having no title; as to strangers, a mortgage is considered
• EXTRAORDINARY
  1. Beyond or out of the common order or method; not usual, customary, regular, or ordinary; as, extraordinary evils; extraordinary remedies. Which dispose To something extraordinary my thoughts. Milton. 2. Exceeding the common degree, measure.
• ESTRANGE
  extraneare to treat as a stranger, from extraneus strange. See 1. To withdraw; to withhold; hence, reflexively, to keep at a distance; to cease to be familiar and friendly with. We must estrange our belief from everything which is not clearly and
• ESTRANGER
  One who estranges.
• ESTRANGEDNESS
  State of being estranged; estrangement. Prynne.