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Synonyms for acquaintance
ac·quain·tance
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Wiktionary
acquaintancenoun
Synonyms:
intimacy, familiarity, knowledge, fellowshipacquaintancenoun
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, intimacyacquaintancenoun
A person or persons with whom one is acquainted.
Synonyms:
fellowship, intimacy, knowledge, familiarity
English Synonyms and Antonyms
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.
Synonyms:
association, companionship, experience, familiarity, fellowship, friendship, intimacy, knowledgeAntonyms:
ignorance, ignoring, inexperience, unfamiliarityPreposition:
Acquaintance with a subject; of one person with another; between persons.
Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms
acquaintance
Synonyms:
knowledge, intimacy, familiarity, experience, companionshipAntonyms:
ignorance, unfamiliarity, inexperience, well has also the colloquial meaning of a person with whom one i s acquainted
Princeton's WordNet
acquaintance, familiarity, conversance, conversancynoun
personal knowledge or information about someone or something
Synonyms:
intimacy, liberty, casualness, conversancy, closeness, friend, familiarity, indecorum, impropriety, conversance, acquaintanceshipacquaintance, acquaintanceshipnoun
a relationship less intimate than friendship
Synonyms:
friend, conversancy, acquaintanceship, familiarity, conversanceacquaintance, friendnoun
a person with whom you are acquainted
"I have trouble remembering the names of all my acquaintances"; "we are friends of the family"
Synonyms:
ally, booster, conversancy, admirer, friend, familiarity, champion, supporter, conversance, acquaintanceship, protagonist
Matched Categories
Dictionary of English Synonymes
acquaintancenoun
Synonyms:
familiarity, familiar knowledgeacquaintancenoun
Synonyms:
friend (with whom one is not intimate)
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
acquaintancenoun
Synonyms:
familiarity, kithAntonyms:
ignorance, unfamiliarity, unacquaintance
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "acquaintance":
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#503 | friend | |
#566 | experience | |
#726 | association | |
#897 | knowledge | |
#4169 | liberty | |
#4708 | champion | |
#6595 | friendship | |
#6850 | fellowship | |
#10766 | booster | |
#13251 | ally | |
#15000 | supporter | |
#18908 | familiarity | |
#20144 | intimacy | |
#22164 | acquaintance | |
#30049 | protagonist | |
#34551 | companionship | |
#39155 | closeness | |
#46836 | admirer | |
#66317 | impropriety | |
#238685 | casualness | |
#290097 | acquaintanceship |
How to use acquaintance in a sentence?
A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.
A friend will know you better in the first minute they see you, than your acquaintance will in a thousand years.
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.
Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.
Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance or a stranger.
Translations for acquaintance
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- معرفةArabic
- познайник, познанствоBulgarian
- ངོ་ཤེས་པTibetan Standard
- konesañsBreton
- conegutCatalan, Valencian
- známýCzech
- Bekanntschaft, Bekannte, Bekannter, UmgangGerman
- γνωστός, γνωριμίαGreek
- konatoEsperanto
- amistad, relación, conocido, conocida, trato, conocimiento, juntaSpanish
- آشنایی, آشناPersian
- tuttava, tuttu, tuttavasuhde, tuttavuusFinnish
- fréquentation, accointance, relationFrench
- ismeretség, ismerősHungarian
- ծանոթ, ծանոթությունArmenian
- conoscenzaItalian
- 知り合い, 知人Japanese
- ការស្គាល់គ្នាKhmer
- ناسیارKurdish
- အသိအကျွမ်းBurmese
- bekendheid, bekende, kennisDutch
- forbindelseNorwegian
- znajomość, znajoma, znajomyPolish
- [[ser]] [[conhecido]], conhecimento, conhecidoPortuguese
- cunoștință, cunoscut, cunoscutăRomanian
- знакомый, знакомство, знакомаяRussian
- poznánstvo, pòznanica, pòznanīkSerbo-Croatian
- známa, známy, známosťSlovak
- bekant, bekantskapSwedish
- அறிமுகம்Tamil
- పరిచయముTelugu
- ผู้คุ้นเคยThai
- aşinaTurkish
- tanishuv, tanishUzbek
- người quenVietnamese
- jisevädan, seväd, sevädan, hisevädanVolapük
- 熟人Chinese
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