Meaning

Not acquainted, unfamiliar (with someone or something)..

Definitions by Sense

1. Not acquainted, unfamiliar (with someone or something).
2. (obsolete) Not usual; unfamiliar; strange.

Example Sentences

1705, William Dampier, Voyages and Descriptions, London: James Knapton, Volume 2, “Voyages to the Bay of Campeachy,” Chapter 1, p. 26, […] from our Main-top we saw the Islands to the Southward of us, and being unacquainted, knew not whether we might find among them a Channel to pass through […]

The Romains vnacquainted with such perills, wold not endure the hasard of the siege.

“[…] Were my mother to see you—to know you, I am sure she would approve; but you are unacquainted personally, and the ancient feud between the families—”

To commonplace actions he brought a special pedantic awkwardness. In Poland, France, England, students, young gentlemen of his time, had been unacquainted with kitchens. Now he did things that cooks and maids had once done.

Who when she saw Duessa sunny bright, Adornd with gold and iewels shining cleare, She greatly grew amazed at the sight, And th’vnacquainted light began to feare:

[…] [we] fill up Her enemies’ ranks,—I must withdraw and weep Upon the spot of this enforced cause,— To grace the gentry of a land remote, And follow unacquainted colours here?

Word Forms

• more unacquainted
• most unacquainted

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