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acquaintance - 20 thesaurus results
| Main Entry: | acquaintance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | a person known informally |
| Synonyms: | associate, association, colleague, companion, contact, friend, neighbor |
| Antonyms: | stranger |
| Main Entry: | acquaintance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | knowledge of something through experience |
| Synonyms: | awareness, cognizance, familiarity, fellowship, grasp, intimacy, ken, relationship, understanding, conversance |
| Antonyms: | ignorance, strangeness, unfamiliarity |
| Main Entry: | awareness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | knowledge |
| Synonyms: | acquaintance, alertness, appreciation, apprehension, attention, cognizance, comprehension, consciousness, discernment, enlightenment, experience, familiarity, information, keenness, perception, realization, recognition, sensibility, understanding, acquaintanceship, aliveness, attentiveness, bodhi, mindfulness, sentience |
| Antonyms: | ignorance, insensitivity, unconsciousness |
| Main Entry: | confidant |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | close friend |
| Synonyms: | acquaintance, adherent, adviser, alter ego, companion, crony, familiar, intimate, mate, pal, bosom buddy |
| Notes: | a person entrusted with private information is a confidante (feminine) or confidant (masculine) |
| Antonyms: | enemy, foe |
| Main Entry: | crony |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ally, companion |
| Synonyms: | accomplice, acquaintance, associate, buddy, chum, colleague, comrade, confidant, friend, intimate, mate, pal, partner, sidekick*, bosom buddy, comate, good buddy |
| Antonyms: | enemy, foe |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | fellowship |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sociability, association |
| Synonyms: | acquaintance, alliance, amity, camaraderie, club, communion, companionship, company, conviviality, familiarity, friendliness, guild, intimacy, league, order, society, sodality, togetherness, affability, companionability, comradeship, kindliness |
| Main Entry: | intimacy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | closeness between people |
| Synonyms: | acquaintance, affection, affinity, communion, confidence, experience, familiarity, friendship, understanding, close relationship, confidentiality, inwardness |
| Antonyms: | disagreement, incompatibility |
| Main Entry: | knowledge |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person's understanding; information |
| Synonyms: | ability, acquaintance, apprehension, awareness, cognition, comprehension, consciousness, dirt*, discernment, doctrine, dogma, dope*, education, enlightenment, erudition, expertise, facts, familiarity, goods*, grasp, insight, instruction, intelligence, judgment, know-how*, learning, light*, lore, observation, philosophy, picture, power*, proficiency, recognition, scholarship, science, scoop*, substance, theory, tuition, wisdom, accomplishments, attainments, inside story, principles, schooling |
| Antonyms: | ignorance |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | mate |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | one of a pair; partner |
| Synonyms: | acquaintance, alter ego, assistant, associate, bride, buddy*, chum*, cohort, colleague, companion, compeer, complement, comrade, concomitant, consort, coordinate, counterpart, crony, double, duplicate, familiar, friend, groom, helper, helpmate, intimate, match, pal*, peer, playmate, reciprocal, roommate, schoolmate, sidekick*, spouse, twin, analog, bedmate, classmate, coworker |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | neighbor |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who lives close by |
| Synonyms: | acquaintance, bystander, friend, homebody, nearby resident, next-door neighbor |
| Main Entry: | confidante |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | friend |
| Synonyms: | acquaintance, adherent, adviser, alter ego, companion, confidant, crony, familiar, intimate, mate, amigo, bosom buddy |
| Antonyms: | adversary, enemy, foe, rival |
| Main Entry: | schoolmate |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | roommate |
| Synonyms: | acquaintance, chum*, comrade, friend, classmate |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | connection |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who aids another in achieving goal |
| Synonyms: | acquaintance, agent, ally, associate, association, contact, friend, go-between, intermediary, kin, kindred, kinship, mentor, messenger, network, reciprocity, relation, relative, sponsor |
| Antonyms: | disconnection, gap, opening |
| Main Entry: | contact |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | form of communication |
| Synonyms: | acquaintance, association, channel, commerce, communion, companionship, connection, influence, intercourse, junction, meeting, network, touch, union, unity |
| Main Entry: | experience |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | knowledge |
| Synonyms: | acquaintance, action, actuality, background, caution, combat, contact, doing, empiricism, evidence, existence, exposure, familiarity, intimacy, involvement, judgment, know-how*, maturity, observation, participation, patience, perspicacity, practicality, practice, proof, reality, savoir-faire, seasoning, sense, skill, sophistication, strife, struggle, training, trial, understanding, wisdom, forebearance, inwardness, worldliness |
| Antonyms: | ignorance, immaturity, inexperience |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | familiarity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | friendliness |
| Synonyms: | acquaintance, boldness, closeness, ease, fellowship, forwardness, freedom, freshness, friendship, intimacy, liberty, presumption, acquaintanceship, informality, naturalness, openness, sociability, unceremoniousness |
| Antonyms: | cool, distance, frigidity, reserve, aloofness, unfriendliness |
| Main Entry: | friend |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | confidant, companion |
| Synonyms: | acquaintance, ally, alter ego, associate, buddy, chum*, cohort, colleague, companion*, compatriot, comrade, consort, cousin, crony, familiar, intimate, mate, pal, partner, playmate, roommate, schoolmate, sidekick, soul mate*, spare*, bosom buddy, classmate, well-wisher |
| Antonyms: | enemy, foe |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | association |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | friendship |
| Synonyms: | acquaintance, affiliation, agreement, assistance, camaraderie, companionship, conjunction, cooperation, familiarity, fellowship, friendliness, intimacy, membership, participation, partnership, relation, relationship, acquaintanceship, comradeship, fraternization, frequenting, hookup |
| Antonyms: | antagonism, isolation, opposition, rivalry, seclusion, separation, solitude, aloneness, disunion |
| Main Entry: | familiarity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | knowledgeableness |
| Synonyms: | acquaintance, awareness, cognition, comprehension, experience, feel, grasp, knowledge, sense, understanding |
| Antonyms: | ignorance, unfamiliarity |
| Main Entry: | touch |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | manner, method |
| Synonyms: | ability, acquaintance, adroitness, approach, art, artistry, awareness, characteristic, command, communication, contact, direction, effect, facility, faculty, familiarity, finish, flair, hand, handiwork, influence, knack, mastery, skill, style, talent, technique, trademark, understanding, way, adeptness, deftness, virtuosity |
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