Is "unambient" a word?

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Nope. Not a word.

It's not a valid Scrabble word.

OneLook searches 1,001 indexed dictionaries and didn't find it.
On the other hand, OneLook's "quick definition" of "word" is a "unit of meaning that native speakers can recognise".
Although I may have never seen it before, I can recognise "unambient" as meaning not ambient.
A quick look through Google's 200+ examples, "unambient" is almost always used in a musical context.

That's scary. The online OED returned no matches, and I couldn't think of a proper antonym for "ambient." It seems that some people think "unambient" suits just fine.

Another example of language evolution?

Antonyms of adj ambient

1 sense of ambient

Sense 1
ambient

INDIRECT (VIA close) -> Distant

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I would think something like "captivating" or "striking" (as an adjective) could be an antonym of ambient. Since ambient generally refers to something which blends into the background and you are only vaguely aware of.

Afraid not, Ivy. You'll have to explain yourself a bit more specifically. "Ambient" means "surrounding" or "encircling," not something that "blends into the background."