What are the opposite words for Familiar?
"Familiar" is a word generally used to describe something that is well known or recognized. However, its antonyms or opposites can indicate that something is either uncommon, unrecognizable, or unknown. Words such as "strange", "unfamiliar", "alien", "unknown", and "peculiar" can be used to describe something that is not familiar. These terms are commonly used in discussions, descriptions, or observations of people, cultures, places, and things that are not well known. Conversely, these terms may also suggest an eagerness or curiosity to explore the unfamiliar and expand one's horizons.
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- familiar
- different
- curious
- obscure
- secret
- irregular
- unusual
- new
- important
- special
- extreme
- exceptional
- abnormal
- alien
- confidential
- eerie
- extraordinary
- fantastic
- foreign
- imported
- interesting
- magical
- marvelous
- mind-boggling
- miraculous
- mysterious
- notable
- peculiar
- quirky
- romantic
- spooky
- uncanny
- uncommon
- undiscovered
- unheard-of
- unimaginable
- unknown
- unthinkable
- bizarre
- eccentric
- esoteric
- freakish
- grotesque
- inconceivable
- inexperienced
- ludicrous
- noteworthy
- novel
- outlandish
- rare
- remarkable
- strange
- tremendous
- unfamiliar
- unnatural
- unprecedented
- wonderful
- different from standard or norm
- exotic
- strange, wild
- very odd
- separate, distinct
- bizarre, unusual
- mysterious, obscure
- not native or usual; mysterious
- unique
- strange and wonderful
- common, well-known
- friendly, bold
- strange, different; imaginary
- unbelieveable
- from another country, experience
- odd, peculiar
- ugly, misshapen
- brought in from another place
- farfetched
- beyond reason, belief
- unskilled, unfamiliar
- appealing, entertaining
- hard to believe; amazing
- surprisingly wonderful
- secret, concealed
- recent, fresh
- recently discovered
- important; famous
- new, original
- out-of-the-way, little-known
- bizarre, strange
- bizarre, odd
- astounding, exceptional
- exceptional, infrequent
- extraordinary, unusual
- sentimental, idealistic
- distinguished, distinctive; important in own way
- deviating, unfamiliar
- huge, overwhelming
- phenomenal
- very strange, unusual
- very different
- unfound
- obscure, mysterious
- not regular; artificial
- exceptional, original
- incredible, unusual
- odd, bizarre
- great, extraordinary
- Other antonyms
- familiar
- different
- curious
-
obscure
- unnoted,
- unhonored,
- in conspicuous,
- in glorious,
- in visible,
- in-conspicuous,
- in-glorious,
- in-visible,
- more sequestered,
- more unhonored,
- more unnoted,
- most sequestered,
- most unhonored,
- re moved,
- re tired,
- un disclosed,
- un distinguished,
- un honored,
- un noted,
- un seen,
- un sung,
- un-disclosed,
- un-distinguished,
- un-honored,
- un-important,
- un-noted,
- un-sung.
- secret
- irregular
- unusual
-
new
- dewy,
- uncontaminated,
- untrodden,
- Neoteric,
- cutting-edge,
- dewiest,
- dewier,
- brandnew,
- brand new,
- cuttingedge,
- dis similar,
- dis-similar,
- just out,
- more cutting edge,
- more cutting-edge,
- more cuttingedge,
- more uncontaminated,
- more untrodden,
- most cutting edge,
- most cutting-edge,
- most cuttingedge,
- most neoteric,
- most uncontaminated,
- most untrodden,
- nower,
- nowest,
- re cent,
- spick and span,
- ultra modern,
- ultra-modern,
- un contaminated,
- un liker,
- un likest,
- un skilled,
- un spoiled,
- un touched,
- un trodden,
- un-contaminated,
- un-likest,
- un-skilled,
- un-spoiled,
- un-touched,
- un-trodden,
- up to date.
- important
- special
- extreme
- exceptional
-
abnormal
- off-base,
- spastic,
- out of line,
- grodier,
- grody,
- hetero clite,
- hetero-clite,
- more deviate,
- more heteroclite,
- more heteromorphic,
- more off base,
- more off-base,
- more offbase,
- more spastic,
- most deviate,
- most heteroclite,
- most heteromorphic,
- most off base,
- most off-base,
- most spastic,
- off color,
- offbase,
- offcolor,
- out line,
- un expected,
- un-expected.
- alien
- confidential
- eerie
- extraordinary
-
fantastic
- phantasmagorical,
- primo,
- A 1,
- first class,
- cat's meow,
- firstrate,
- firstclass,
- best ever,
- cat meow,
- cats meow,
- far fetched,
- first rate,
- in sane,
- in saner,
- in sanest,
- in-sane,
- in-saner,
- in-sanest,
- mis leading,
- mis-leading,
- more cracking,
- more humongous,
- more phantasmagorical,
- more primo,
- more ridiculous,
- most cracking,
- most humongous,
- most phantasmagorical,
- most primo,
- out of world,
- out sight,
- out this world,
- out world,
- over whelming,
- over-whelming,
- un believable,
- un likelier,
- un likeliest,
- un likely,
- un-believable,
- un-likelier,
- un-likeliest,
- un-likely,
- un-real.
-
foreign
- alien,
- inapposite,
- nonnative,
- transoceanic,
- uncharacteristic,
- Inconsonant,
- Irrelative,
- Non-resident,
- unassimilable,
- de rived,
- de-rived,
- ex patriate,
- ex-patriate,
- extra local,
- extra-local,
- extralocal,
- far off,
- from abroad,
- in accessible,
- in apposite,
- in consonant,
- in-accessible,
- in-apposite,
- in-consonant,
- more exiled,
- more expatriate,
- more extralocal,
- more immigrant,
- more inapposite,
- more inconsonant,
- more irrelative,
- more nonnative,
- more nonresident,
- more transoceanic,
- more unassimilable,
- more uncharacteristic,
- most adopted,
- most exiled,
- most expatriate,
- most extralocal,
- most inapposite,
- most inconsonant,
- most irrelative,
- most nonnative,
- most nonresident,
- most unassimilable,
- most uncharacteristic,
- non native,
- non resident,
- non-native,
- not domestic,
- not native,
- over seas,
- over-seas,
- trans oceanic,
- trans-oceanic,
- un accustomed,
- un assimilable,
- un characteristic,
- un explored,
- un related,
- un-accustomed,
- un-assimilable,
- un-characteristic,
- un-related.
- imported
- interesting
-
magical
- demoniac,
- ensorcelled,
- parapsychological,
- runic,
- sorcerous,
- spiritualistic,
- witching,
- witchlike,
- wizardly,
- telekinetic,
- be witched,
- be-witched,
- more conjuring,
- more ensorcelled,
- more entranced,
- more runic,
- more sorcerous,
- more spiritualistic,
- more telekinetic,
- more tranced,
- more witching,
- more witchlike,
- more wizardly,
- most conjuring,
- most demoniac,
- most ensorcelled,
- most entranced,
- most parapsychological,
- most sorcerous,
- most spellbinding,
- most spiritualistic,
- most telekinetic,
- most tranced,
- most witching,
- most witchlike,
- most wizardly,
- para psychological,
- para-psychological.
- marvelous
- mind-boggling
- miraculous
- mysterious
-
notable
- bodacious,
- Celebrious,
- pre-eminent,
- bigleague,
- distingue,
- high-profile,
- highprofile,
- majorleague,
- more bodacious,
- more celebrious,
- more high profile,
- more high-profile,
- more highprofile,
- more rubric,
- most bodacious,
- most celebrious,
- most distingue,
- most high profile,
- most high-profile,
- most highprofile,
- most nameable,
- most rubric,
- pre eminent,
- red letter,
- redletter,
- top drawer,
- topdrawer,
- well known,
- wellknown.
- peculiar
- quirky
-
romantic
- fairytale,
- syrupy,
- lovey-dovey,
- ex citing,
- fairy-tale,
- lovey dovey,
- loveydovey,
- more fairy tale,
- more fairy-tale,
- more lovey dovey,
- more lovey-dovey,
- more loveydovey,
- more syrupy,
- most fairy-tale,
- most lovey dovey,
- most lovey-dovey,
- most loveydovey,
- most syrupy,
- starry eyed,
- starryeyed,
- tearjerking,
- un realistic.
- spooky
-
uncanny
- supernormal,
- supranormal,
- Inexplainable,
- in explainable,
- in spired,
- in-explainable,
- in-spired,
- more inexplainable,
- more supernormal,
- more supranormal,
- most inexplainable,
- most supernormal,
- most supranormal,
- super normal,
- super-normal,
- supra normal,
- supra-normal,
- un cannier,
- un canniest,
- un canny,
- un-cannier,
- un-canniest.
- uncommon
- undiscovered
- unheard-of
- unimaginable
-
unknown
- so-and-so,
- such-and-such,
- unexplained,
- unidentified,
- unperceived,
- unrecognized,
- unrevealed,
- Incog,
- uncelebrated,
- Unapprehended,
- Unascertained,
- de solate,
- de-solate,
- in cog,
- in-cog,
- more incog,
- more so and so,
- more so-and-so,
- more such and such,
- more such-and-such,
- more unapprehended,
- more unascertained,
- more uncelebrated,
- more unexplained,
- more unperceived,
- more unrecognized,
- more unrevealed,
- most incog,
- most so and so,
- most so-and-so,
- most such and such,
- most such-and-such,
- most unapprehended,
- most unascertained,
- most uncelebrated,
- most unexplained,
- most unnoted,
- most unperceived,
- most unrecognized,
- most unrevealed,
- so and so,
- such and such,
- un apprehended,
- un ascertained,
- un celebrated,
- un charted,
- un explained,
- un identified,
- un known,
- un named,
- un perceived,
- un recognized,
- un revealed,
- un-apprehended,
- un-ascertained,
- un-celebrated,
- un-charted,
- un-explained,
- un-identified,
- un-known,
- un-named,
- un-perceived,
- un-recognized,
- un-revealed,
- un-told.
- unthinkable
- bizarre
- eccentric
- esoteric
- freakish
- grotesque
-
inconceivable
- unknowable,
- Incogitable,
- Insupposable,
- in cogitable,
- in conceivable,
- in supposable,
- in-cogitable,
- in-conceivable,
- in-supposable,
- mind boggling,
- mindboggling,
- more imcomprehensible,
- more incogitable,
- more insupposable,
- more unknowable,
- most imcomprehensible,
- most incogitable,
- most insupposable,
- most unknowable,
- re achier,
- re achiest,
- re-achiest,
- re-achy,
- reachier,
- reachiest,
- reachy,
- un convincing,
- un knowable,
- un substantial,
- un-convincing,
- un-knowable,
- un-substantial,
- won't fly,
- won't wash,
- wont fly,
- wont wash.
-
inexperienced
- prentice,
- spring chicken,
- unfamiliar with,
- unfledged,
- untried,
- Sophomoric,
- Kidder,
- Unconversant,
- in experienced,
- in expert,
- in nocent,
- in-experienced,
- in-expert,
- in-nocent,
- kiddest,
- more amateur,
- more prentice,
- more rookie,
- more tenderfoot,
- more unconversant,
- more unfledged,
- most amateur,
- most prentice,
- most rookie,
- most tenderfoot,
- most unconversant,
- most unfledged,
- un acquainted,
- un conversant,
- un disciplined,
- un fledged,
- un practiced,
- un schooled,
- un seasoned,
- un sophisticated,
- un trained,
- un tried,
- un trieder,
- un triedest,
- un worldlier,
- un worldliest,
- un worldly,
- un-acquainted,
- un-conversant,
- un-fledged,
- un-schooled,
- un-seasoned,
- un-trained,
- un-tried,
- un-trieder,
- un-triedest,
- un-used,
- un-worldlier,
- un-worldliest,
- un-worldly,
- wet behind ears.
- ludicrous
- noteworthy
- novel
- outlandish
-
rare
- recherche,
- Unfrequent,
- Subtile,
- few and far between,
- few far between,
- more attenuate,
- more attenuated,
- more recherche,
- more seldom,
- more semioccasional,
- more unfrequent,
- most attenuate,
- most attenuated,
- most recherche,
- most seldom,
- most semioccasional,
- most unfrequent,
- semi occasional,
- semi-occasional,
- semioccasional,
- sub tile,
- sub tiler,
- sub-tile,
- subtiler,
- subtilest,
- un frequent,
- un-frequent.
- remarkable
- strange
- tremendous
-
unfamiliar
- unfamiliar,
- Inconversant,
- uninvestigated,
- in cognizant,
- in conversant,
- in-cognizant,
- in-conversant,
- little known,
- more inconversant,
- more uninvestigated,
- most inconversant,
- most uninvestigated,
- not associated,
- not versed in,
- out contact,
- out of contact,
- un aware,
- un familiar,
- un informed,
- un initiated,
- un instructed,
- un investigated,
- un knowing,
- un witting,
- un-aware,
- un-explored,
- un-familiar,
- un-informed,
- un-initiated,
- un-instructed,
- un-investigated,
- un-knowing,
- un-witting.
-
unnatural
- in sincere,
- in sincerer,
- in sincerest,
- in-sincere,
- in-sincerer,
- in-sincerest,
- madeup,
- makebelieve,
- more concocted,
- more imitation,
- more put on,
- more put-on,
- more staged,
- more unconforming,
- most concocted,
- most fabricated,
- most imitation,
- most put on,
- most puton,
- most staged,
- puton,
- un conforming,
- un-conforming,
- un-natural,
- unconforming.
- unprecedented
- wonderful
- different from standard or norm
- exotic
- strange, wild
- very odd
- separate, distinct
- bizarre, unusual
- mysterious, obscure
- not native or usual; mysterious
- unique
- strange and wonderful
- common, well-known
- friendly, bold
- strange, different; imaginary
- unbelieveable
- from another country, experience
- odd, peculiar
- ugly, misshapen
- brought in from another place
- farfetched
- beyond reason, belief
- unskilled, unfamiliar
- appealing, entertaining
- hard to believe; amazing
- surprisingly wonderful
- secret, concealed
-
recent, fresh
- new.
- recently discovered
- important; famous
- new, original
- out-of-the-way, little-known
- bizarre, strange
- bizarre, odd
- astounding, exceptional
-
exceptional, infrequent
- rare.
- extraordinary, unusual
- sentimental, idealistic
- distinguished, distinctive; important in own way
- deviating, unfamiliar
- huge, overwhelming
- phenomenal
- very strange, unusual
- very different
- unfound
- obscure, mysterious
- not regular; artificial
- exceptional, original
- incredible, unusual
- odd, bizarre
- great, extraordinary
- Other antonyms
Antonym of the day
stops in one's tracks
- Antonyms:
- bore, disenchant, disgust.