ACQUAINTED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does acquainted mean? 

• ACQUAINTED (adjective)
  The adjective ACQUAINTED has 1 sense:

1. having fair knowledge of

  Familiarity information: ACQUAINTED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ACQUAINTED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having fair knowledge of

Context example:

fully acquainted with the facts

Similar:

familiar (well known or easily recognized)

 Context examples 

You will not ask me sich a thing, for you are better acquainted with me than to suppose me capable of doing what I cannot do with ampial satisfaction to my own feelings!

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

But just got acquainted with Mrs. Weston, and others!

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

You can have been personally acquainted with very few of a set of men you condemn so conclusively.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

"And you—you ain't never fed 'm after them first days of gettin' acquainted. I'm blamed if I can see how he works it out that you're the boss."

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Impossible, Mr. Bennet, impossible, when I am not acquainted with him myself; how can you be so teasing?

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Thank you; for now we shall soon be acquainted, as I am authorized to tease you on this subject whenever we meet, and nothing in the world advances intimacy so much.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

Well, he decided, it was up to him to get acquainted in this new world.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

The Professor said:—"I may, I suppose, take it that we are all acquainted with the facts that are in these papers."

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

But why be acquainted with us now?

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

At Coblentz we had a lovely time, for some students from Bonn, with whom Fred got acquainted on the boat, gave us a serenade.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)