unacquainted
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.82 in modern English
24
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Not acquainted, unfamiliar (with someone or something).
Example Sentences
- "The Romains vnacquainted with such perills, wold not endure the hasard of the siege."
- "1705, William Dampier, Voyages and Descriptions, London: James Knapton, Volume 2, “Voyages to the Bay of Campeachy,” Chapter 1, p. 26, […] from our Main-top we saw the Islands to the Southward of us, and being unacquainted, knew not whether we might find among them a Channel to pass through […]"
- "“[…] Were my mother to see you—to know you, I am sure she would approve; but you are unacquainted personally, and the ancient feud between the families—”"
- "To commonplace actions he brought a special pedantic awkwardness. In Poland, France, England, students, young gentlemen of his time, had been unacquainted with kitchens. Now he did things that cooks and maids had once done."
- "Who when she saw Duessa sunny bright, Adornd with gold and iewels shining cleare, She greatly grew amazed at the sight, And th’vnacquainted light began to feare:"
- "[…] [we] fill up Her enemies’ ranks,—I must withdraw and weep Upon the spot of this enforced cause,— To grace the gentry of a land remote, And follow unacquainted colours here?"
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Germanic *un- Proto-West Germanic *un- Old English un- Middle English un- English un- English acquainted English unacquainted From un- + acquainted.
Usage
Inflected Forms
more unacquainted (comparative)
most unacquainted (superlative)