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unfamiliar

adj
/ˌʌnfəˈmɪli.ə(ɹ)/

Etymology

From un- + familiar.

  1. derived from familiāris
  2. inherited from familiar,familier
  3. formed as unfamiliar — “un- + familiar”

Definitions

  1. Strange, not familiar.

    • United were second-best for long periods as they struggled to adapt to an unfamiliar line-up and were ultimately fortunate to leave Merseyside with their unbeaten league run still intact.

  2. An unfamiliar person

    An unfamiliar person; a stranger.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at unfamiliar. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01unfamiliar02stranger03outsider04newcomer05neophyte06novice

A definitional loop anchored at unfamiliar. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

6 hops · closes at unfamiliar

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA