Word Meanings - UNACCUSTOMED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Not used; not habituated; unfamiliar; unused; -- which to. Chastened as a bullock unaccustomed to yoke. Jer. xxxi. 18. 2. Not usual; uncommon; strange; new. What unaccustomed cause procures her hither Shak.

Related words: (words related to UNACCUSTOMED)

• CAUSEFUL
  Having a cause.
• UNUSED
  1. Not used; as, an unused book; an unused apartment. 2. Not habituated; unaccustomed. Unused to bend, impatient of control. Thomson.
• 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.
• CAUSEWAYED; CAUSEYED
  Having a raised way ; paved. Sir W. Scott. C. Bronté.
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• BULLOCK'S-EYE
  See 3
• WHICH
  the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
• CHASTEN
  chastise; castus pure + agere to lead, drive. See Chaste, Act, and 1. To correct by punishment; to inflict pain upon the purpose of reclaiming; to discipline; as, to chasten a son with a rod. For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth. Heb. xii. 6.
• HABITUATION
  The act of habituating, or accustoming; the state of being habituated.
• HABITUATE
  1. To make accustomed; to accustom; to familiarize. Our English dogs, who were habituated to a colder clime. Sir K. Digby. Men are first corrupted . . . and next they habituate themselves to their vicious practices. Tillotson. 2. To settle as an
• UNUSUALITY
  Unusualness. Poe.
• STRANGENESS
  The state or quality of being strange (in any sense of the adjective).
• CAUSERIE
  Informal talk or discussion, as about literary matters; light conversation; chat.
• HITHERWARD
  Toward this place; hither. Marching hitherward in proud array. Shak.
• CHASTENER
  One who chastens.
• CAUSER
  One who or that which causes.
• UNACCUSTOMED
  1. Not used; not habituated; unfamiliar; unused; -- which to. Chastened as a bullock unaccustomed to yoke. Jer. xxxi. 18. 2. Not usual; uncommon; strange; new. What unaccustomed cause procures her hither Shak.
• PROCURESS
  A female procurer, or pander.
• CAUSELESS
  1. Self-originating; uncreated. 2. Without just or sufficient reason; groundless. My fears are causeless and ungrounded. Denham.
• USUAL
  Such as is in common use; such as occurs in ordinary practice, or in the ordinary course of events; customary; ordinary; habitual; common. Consultation with oracles was a thing very usual and frequent in their times. Hooker. We can make friends
• 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.
• HITHER
  1. To this place; -- used with verbs signifying motion, and implying motion toward the speaker; correlate of hence and thither; as, to come or bring hither. 2. To this point, source, conclusion, design, etc.; -- in a sense not physical. Hither
• THITHERTO
  To that point; so far.
• UNCAUSED
  Having no antecedent cause; uncreated; self-existent; eternal. A. Baxter.
• WHITHERWARD
  In what direction; toward what or which place. R. of Brunne. Whitherward to turn for a good course of life was by no means too apparent. Carlyle.
• SOMEWHITHER
  To some indeterminate place; to some place or other. Driven by the winds of temptation somewhither. Barrow.
• WHITHERSOEVER
  To whatever place; to what place soever; wheresoever; as, I will go whithersoever you lead.
• FAUNUS
  See FAUN