unwonted

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   out of the ordinary

   A cause for their unwonted softness of the face could not be pinned down.

2. 2
   adj

   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.

3. 3
   adj

   Unused (to); unaccustomed (to) something.

From un- + wonted. Redundant in form, as wont is by itself historically the participle adjective. Largely displaced earlier unwont.

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