| 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, conversance, familiarity, fellowship, grasp, intimacy, ken, relationship, understanding |
Antonyms: |
ignorance, strangeness, unfamiliarity |
| Main Entry: | association |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | friendship |
Synonyms: |
acquaintance, acquaintanceship, affiliation, agreement, assistance, camaraderie, companionship, comradeship, conjunction, cooperation, familiarity, fellowship, fraternization, frequenting, friendliness, hookup, intimacy, membership, participation, partnership, relation, relationship |
Antonyms: |
aloneness, antagonism, disunion, isolation, opposition, rivalry, seclusion, separation, solitude |
| Main Entry: | awareness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | knowledge |
Synonyms: |
acquaintance, acquaintanceship, alertness, aliveness, appreciation, apprehension, attention, attentiveness, bodhi, cognizance, comprehension, consciousness, discernment, enlightenment, experience, familiarity, information, keenness, mindfulness, perception, realization, recognition, sensibility, sentience, understanding |
Antonyms: |
ignorance, insensitivity, unconsciousness |
| Main Entry: | confidant |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | close friend |
Synonyms: |
acquaintance, adherent, adviser, alter ego, bosom buddy, companion, crony, familiar, intimate, mate, pal |
| Notes: | a person entrusted with private information is a confidante (feminine) or confidant (masculine) |
Antonyms: |
enemy, foe |
| 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: | crony |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ally, companion |
Synonyms: |
accomplice, acquaintance, associate, bosom buddy, buddy, chum, colleague, comate, comrade, confidant, friend, good buddy, intimate, mate, pal, partner, sidekick* |
Antonyms: |
enemy, foe |
| Main Entry: | experience |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | knowledge |
Synonyms: |
acquaintance, action, actuality, background, caution, combat, contact, doing, empiricism, evidence, existence, exposure, familiarity, forebearance, intimacy, involvement, inwardness, judgment, know-how, maturity, observation, participation, patience, perspicacity, practicality, practice, proof, reality, savoir-faire, seasoning, sense, skill, sophistication, strife, struggle, training, trial, understanding, wisdom, worldliness |
Antonyms: |
ignorance, immaturity, inexperience |
| Main Entry: | familiarity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | friendliness |
Synonyms: |
acquaintance, acquaintanceship, boldness, closeness, ease, fellowship, forwardness, freedom, freshness, friendship, informality, intimacy, liberty, naturalness, openness, presumption, sociability, unceremoniousness |
Antonyms: |
aloofness, cool, distance, frigidity, reserve, unfriendliness |