not be in sb's vocabulary
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› You say that a particular quality is not in your vocabulary if you never show it or experience it: Did you say 'tact'? The word isn't in his vocabulary!Unknown and unfamiliar
(Definition of not be in sb's vocabulary from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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Synonyms and related words:
- a pig in a poke idiom
- alien adjective
- foreign adjective
- lesser-known adjective
- murky/uncharted waters idiom
- obscure adjective (NOT KNOWN)
- shadowy adjective
- strange adjective (NOT FAMILIAR)
- strangeness noun (NOT FAMILIAR)
- terra incognita noun
- the outside world idiom
- uncharted adjective
- unexplored adjective (PLACE)
- unexplored adjective (PLAN)
- unfamiliar adjective
- unheard-of adjective
- unknown noun
- unknown quantity noun
- unsung adjective
- unused adjective (NOT FAMILIAR)
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