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.