unused to

Unfamiliar with doing

Unused to means unaccustomed to or unfamiliar with something through lack of experience: She was unused to such attention.

The phrase describes someone who hasn't developed comfort or facility with a situation, activity, or condition: His hands, unused to manual labor, blistered quickly.

Related

novice · disoriented · beginner · learner · rookie · amateur · fish out of water · thrown in · tenderfoot · unhabituated · tyro · neophyte · ignorant · bewildered · uneasy · foreign · strange · unaccustomed

Opposites
familiarity and habituation

unused toused to

Past habitual action

broken in

Family

unused, use, used, usable, usability, useless, uselessly, uselessness, useful

Familiarity
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Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Abstract · Everyday, not technical · Rated G