Acquaintance Synonyms and Antonyms

ə-kwāntəns
The state of being acquainted
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. association
  2. companionship
  3. relationship
  4. knowledge
A person with whom one is acquainted
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. friend
  2. associate
  3. acquaintanceship
  4. colleague
  5. bowing acquaintance
  6. cognizance
  7. companion
  8. speaking acquaintance
  9. comrade
  10. conversance
  11. escort
  12. conversancy
  13. familiarity
  14. neighbor
  15. friendship
  16. fellowman
  17. acquaintedness
  18. kith
  19. mate
Antonyms:
  1. stranger
  2. ignorance
  3. unacquaintance
  4. unfamiliarity
Knowledge gained through personal experience or study
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. familiarity
  2. awareness
  3. experience
  4. conversance
  5. self-knowledge
  6. conversancy
Antonyms:
  1. ignorance
  2. unacquaintance
  3. unfamiliarity
  4. stranger
  5. strangeness

Acquaintance Sentence Examples

  • He's not a casual acquaintance whom you barely know.

  • He had an acquaintance with the literature.

  • Happy to make your acquaintance, Miss Sidwell.

  • Of this school, which had Lagrange for its professor of mathematics, we have an amusing account in the life of Gilbert Elliot, 1st earl of Minto, who with his brother Hugh, afterwards British minister at Berlin, there made the acquaintance of Mirabeau.

  • He also gained a thorough acquaintance with the French language.

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