Word Meanings - ACQUAINTABLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Easy to be acquainted with; affable. Rom. of R.
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- ACQUAINTANCE
1. 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; as, I know the man; but have no acquaintance with him. Contract - ACQUAINTED
Personally known; familiar. See To be acquainted with, under Acquaint, v. t. - ACQUAINTEDNESS
State of being acquainted; degree of acquaintance. Boyle. - ACQUAINTABLE
Easy to be acquainted with; affable. Rom. of R. - AFFABLE
1. Easy to be spoken to or addressed; receiving others kindly and conversing with them in a free and friendly manner; courteous; sociable. An affable and courteous gentleman. Shak. His manners polite and affable. Macaulay. 2. Gracious; - ACQUAINTANT
An acquaintance. Swift. - ACQUAINT
Acquainted. - ACQUAINTANCESHIP
A state of being acquainted; acquaintance. Southey. - AFFABLENESS
Affability. - DISACQUAINT
To render unacquainted; to make unfamiliar. While my sick heart With dismal smart Is disacquainted never. Herrick. - INACQUAINTANCE
Want of acquaintance. Good. - PREACQUAINTANCE
Previous acquaintance or knowledge. Harris. - PREACQUAINT
To acquaint previously or beforehand. Fielding. - UNACQUAINTANCE
The quality or state of being unacquainted; want of acquaintance; ignorance. He was then in happy unacquaintance with everything connected with that obnoxious cavity. Sir W. Hamilton. - NONACQUAINTANCE
Want of acquaintance; the state of being unacquainted. - INAFFABLE
Not affable; reserved in social intercourse. - UNACQUAINTED
1. Not acquainted. Cowper. 2. Not usual; unfamiliar; strange. And the unacquainted light began to fear. Spenser. - UNACQUAINTEDNESS
Unacquaintance. Whiston. - DISACQUAINTANCE
Neglect of disuse of familiarity, or familiar acquaintance. South.