e-quainted
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Acquainted by means of online communication.
Example Sentences
- "People I was thrilled to meet after being e-quainted forever: […]"
- "I'm e-quainted with someone who goes to the VA there and he says he sees Indian groceries when he goes there."
- "2000, Russell Merris, Graph Theory, Wiley-IEEE, →ISBN, page 195, Let’s say two people are e-quainted if, during the past year, they participated together in one or more of the same chat room discussions. Otherwise, call them e-stranged. Then any two people attending the convention’s introductory cocktail party will be either e-quainted or e-stranged."
- "I am e-quainted with a Catherine who became Cathrin, also for Goff reasons."
Etymology
Blend of e- + acquainted.
Inflected Forms
more e-quainted (comparative)
most e-quainted (superlative)