Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

inacquaintance

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: in-ac-quain-tance
IPA

27

Scrabble Score

14

Letters

4

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Lack of acquaintance; ignorance.

Uncountable

Example Sentences

"[…] so in asthma, where there is no expuition, or the expuition does not appear till the paroxysm is subsiding, we ought, I think, in fair reason, rather to acknowledge or inacquaintance with the actual cause than to place our faith in one that has so little to support it."
"He could scarcely have advanced a theory indicating a more unfortunate inacquaintance with the subject."
"It is a form of which George Eliot seems especially fond: her young ladies refuse the most ineligible offers out of devotion to their aunts; her young gentlemen have all the arduous inacquaintance with Latin which their education requires […]"

Etymology

From in- + acquaintance.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: in

Usage

Uncountable

Questions

What does inacquaintance mean?: Lack of acquaintance; ignorance.
Where does inacquaintance come from?: From in- + acquaintance.

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