FAMILIARIZED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does familiarized mean? 

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

1. having achieved a comfortable relation with your environment

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• FAMILIARIZED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having achieved a comfortable relation with your environment

Synonyms:

adjusted; familiarised; familiarized

Similar:

orientated; oriented (adjusted or located in relation to surroundings or circumstances; sometimes used in combination)

 Context examples 

I soon grew so familiarized to the sight of spirits, that after the third or fourth time they gave me no emotion at all: or, if I had any apprehensions left, my curiosity prevailed over them.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

But when the second moment had passed, when she found every doubt, every solicitude removed, compared her situation with what so lately it had been,—saw him honourably released from his former engagement, saw him instantly profiting by the release, to address herself and declare an affection as tender, as constant as she had ever supposed it to be,—she was oppressed, she was overcome by her own felicity;—and happily disposed as is the human mind to be easily familiarized with any change for the better, it required several hours to give sedateness to her spirits, or any degree of tranquillity to her heart.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)