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UNACQUAINTED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Having little or no knowledge of
Example:
unacquainted with city ways
Synonyms:
unacquainted; unacquainted with; unfamiliar with
Classified under:
Similar:
unfamiliar (not known or well known)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Not knowledgeable about something specified
Example:
a person unacquainted with our customs
Synonyms:
innocent; unacquainted
Classified under:
Similar:
uninformed (not informed; lacking in knowledge or information)
Context examples:
As many of the principal members of the club as could be got into the small room without filling it, supported Mr. Micawber in front of the petition, while my old friend Captain Hopkins (who had washed himself, to do honour to so solemn an occasion) stationed himself close to it, to read it to all who were unacquainted with its contents.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
It was his nature to be communicative; he liked to open to a mind unacquainted with the world glimpses of its scenes and ways (I do not mean its corrupt scenes and wicked ways, but such as derived their interest from the great scale on which they were acted, the strange novelty by which they were characterised); and I had a keen delight in receiving the new ideas he offered, in imagining the new pictures he portrayed, and following him in thought through the new regions he disclosed, never startled or troubled by one noxious allusion.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Safie nursed her with the most devoted affection, but the poor girl died, and the Arabian was left alone, unacquainted with the language of the country and utterly ignorant of the customs of the world.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
Were we among the tamer scenes of nature I might fear to encounter your unbelief, perhaps your ridicule; but many things will appear possible in these wild and mysterious regions which would provoke the laughter of those unacquainted with the ever-varied powers of nature; nor can I doubt but that my tale conveys in its series internal evidence of the truth of the events of which it is composed.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
