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View synonyms for acquainted

acquainted

[ uh-kweyn-tid ]

adjective

  1. having personal knowledge as a result of study, experience, etc.; informed (usually followed by with ):

    to be acquainted with law.

  2. brought into social contact; made familiar:

    people acquainted through mutual friends.



acquainted

/ əˈkweɪntɪd /

adjective

  1. sometimes foll by with on terms of familiarity but not intimacy
  2. foll by with having knowledge or experience (of); familiar (with)


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Other Words From

  • ac·quainted·ness noun
  • half-ac·quainted adjective
  • quasi-ac·quainted adjective
  • unac·quainted adjective
  • well-ac·quainted adjective

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Word History and Origins

Origin of acquainted1

First recorded in 1250–1300; Middle English; acquaint + -ed 2

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Example Sentences

Throughout her life, she says, she has been well acquainted with the everyday injustices of gender inequality.

She never knew him to have firearms in the year or so they were acquainted.

His mother and his father were well-acquainted with a life of crime.

Once I was better acquainted, or so I thought, with the tweet as a formal exercise and what you could do with it, I dove right in.

If you haven't acquainted yourself with the saga of Reinhart-Rogoff, read this post by Mike Konczal.

A less imaginative man than Aristide would have immediately acquainted the police with his discovery.

Meadow Mouse was too well acquainted with old Mr. Crow to get himself into any such fix as that.

The aroma is pleasant and mild, and to those but little acquainted with them, agreeable.

By all the codes which I am acquainted with, I am a devilishly wicked specimen of the sex.

His friend M. Pitot had lately died, but I met many French gentlemen who were acquainted with him.

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