Antonyms for acquaintanceac·quain·tance

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1. acquaintancenoun

   Synonyms:
   intimacy, familiarity, knowledge, fellowship

2. acquaintancenoun

   A state of being acquainted, or of having intimate, or more than slight or superficial, knowledge; personal knowledge gained by intercourse short of that of friendship or intimacy

   I know of the man; but have no acquaintance with him.

   Synonyms:
   familiarity, knowledge, fellowship, intimacy

3. acquaintancenoun

   A person or persons with whom one is acquainted.

   Synonyms:
   fellowship, intimacy, knowledge, familiarity

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1. acquaintance

   Acquaintance between persons supposes that each knows the other; we may know a public man by his writings or speeches, and by sight, but can not claim acquaintance unless he personally knows us. There may be pleasant acquaintance with little companionship; and conversely, much companionship with little acquaintance, as between busy clerks at adjoining desks. So there may be association in business without intimacy or friendship. Acquaintance admits of many degrees, from a slight or passing to a familiar or intimate acquaintance; but acquaintance unmodified commonly signifies less than familiarity or intimacy. As regards persons, familiarity is becoming restricted to the undesirable sense, as in the proverb, "Familiarity breeds contempt;" hence, in personal relations, the word intimacy, which refers to mutual knowledge of thought and feeling, is now uniformly preferred. Friendship includes acquaintance with some degree of intimacy, and ordinarily companionship, though in a wider sense friendship may exist between those who have never met, but know each other only by word and deed. Acquaintance does not involve friendship, for one may be well acquainted with an enemy. Fellowship involves not merely acquaintance and companionship, but sympathy as well. There may be much friendship without much fellowship, as between those whose homes or pursuits are far apart. There may be pleasant fellowship which does not reach the fulness of friendship. Compare ATTACHMENT; FRIENDSHIP; LOVE. As regards studies, pursuits, etc., acquaintance is less than familiarity, which supposes minute knowledge of particulars, arising often from long experience or association.

   Antonyms:
   ignorance, ignoring, inexperience, unfamiliarity

   Synonyms:
   association, companionship, experience, familiarity, fellowship, friendship, intimacy, knowledge

   Preposition:
   Acquaintance with a subject; of one person with another; between persons.

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1. acquaintance

   Antonyms:
   ignorance, unfamiliarity, inexperience, well has also the colloquial meaning of a person with whom one i s acquainted

   Synonyms:
   knowledge, intimacy, familiarity, experience, companionship

Matched Categories

1. • Information
   • Person
   • Relationship

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:5.0 / 1 vote

1. acquaintance, familiarity, conversance, conversancynoun

   personal knowledge or information about someone or something

   Antonyms:
   stranger, unknown, alien

   Synonyms:
   intimacy, liberty, casualness, conversancy, closeness, friend, familiarity, indecorum, impropriety, conversance, acquaintanceship

2. acquaintance, acquaintanceshipnoun

   a relationship less intimate than friendship

   Antonyms:
   unknown, stranger, alien

   Synonyms:
   friend, conversancy, acquaintanceship, familiarity, conversance

3. acquaintance, friendnoun

   a person with whom you are acquainted

   "I have trouble remembering the names of all my acquaintances"; "we are friends of the family"

   Antonyms:
   alien, stranger, unknown

   Synonyms:
   ally, booster, conversancy, admirer, friend, familiarity, champion, supporter, conversance, acquaintanceship, protagonist

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1. acquaintancenoun

   Antonyms:
   ignorance, unfamiliarity, unacquaintance

   Synonyms:
   familiarity, kith

How to use acquaintance in a sentence?

1. Jonathan Todres:

   Hollywood loves a very dramatic abduction and similar stories, but that is not what typically happens in trafficking cases, it is usually someone they know or someone that an acquaintance knows. So it may be that a peer introduces them to someone who ends up recruiting for a trafficking ring.

2. Penelope Fitzgerald:

   It's very good for an idea to be commonplace. The important thing is that a new idea should develop out of what is already there so that it soon becomes an old acquaintance. Old acquaintances aren't by any means always welcome, but at least one can't be mistaken as to who or what they are.

3. Baltimore Police Commissioner Michael Harrison:

   We are seeing the same thing you're seeing in New York and all the other big cities across the country : a spike in increase in violence but it's a number of issues, it's group and gang violence, it's retaliation from previous bad acts. But we are seeing an increase in close acquaintance shootings and domestic violence shootings where people just have absolutely poor or no conflict resolution skills and/or using guns to solve their conflicts.

4. Ambrose Bierce:

   Acquaintance, n. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.

5. Police Cmdr. Greg McEachern:

   These assaults were not date rapes. They were not acquaintance rapes. These assaults were violent rapes committed by a serial rapist -- a sexual deviant predator who was not going to stop until it was caught.

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