nonacquainted
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
25
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
3
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Not acquainted; unacquainted; unfamiliar.
Example Sentences
- "Perhaps nonfreshman men could communicate their aspirations with greater impact than could nonfreshman women, for whom such aspirations carried less apparent status-appropriateness."
- "The 398 students were divided into three categories: 208 freshmen, 93 nonfreshmen who were evaluating teachers who did not teach them in their freshman year (nonacquainted nonfreshmen), and 37 nonfreshmen who were evaluating teachers who taught them in their freshman year (acquainted nonfreshmen)."
- "Begger and lord, Odysseus, in carefully constructed sequence, passes through Hall's four proxemic, or social distances: public (nonacquainted) beggar, social guest of Eumaios, personal friend of Penelope, and, revealed at last as Odysseus, Penelope's husband and intimate bedmate."
- "Nonacquainted triads were more inhibited in their speech and seemed more concerned about how they were presenting themselves to others in their groups."
- "They agree at naming their son Destino, for the fact that he is destined for nonacquainted excellence, and neither Sir Bruno nor Lady Iylayne ever speaks of their account of The Devil with anyone; including Destino."
Etymology
From non- + acquainted.