UNACQUAINTED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does unacquainted mean? 

• UNACQUAINTED (adjective)
  The adjective UNACQUAINTED has 2 senses:

1. not knowledgeable about something specified

2. having little or no knowledge of

  Familiarity information: UNACQUAINTED used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNACQUAINTED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Not knowledgeable about something specified

Synonyms:

innocent; unacquainted

Context example:

a person unacquainted with our customs

Similar:

uninformed (not informed; lacking in knowledge or information)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Having little or no knowledge of

Synonyms:

unacquainted; unacquainted with; unfamiliar with

Context example:

unacquainted with city ways

Similar:

unfamiliar (not known or well known)

 Context examples 

I was obliged to confess—I felt ashamed, even of being at this disadvantage before Littimer—that Miss Mowcher and I were wholly unacquainted.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Before this I was not unacquainted with the more obvious laws of electricity.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

But death in its more sordid and terrible aspects was a thing with which I had been unacquainted till now.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

"You have no right to preach to me, you neophyte, that have not passed the porch of life, and are absolutely unacquainted with its mysteries."

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

The word ‘Croydon’ has been originally spelled with an ‘i,’ which has been changed to ‘y.’ The parcel was directed, then, by a man—the printing is distinctly masculine—of limited education and unacquainted with the town of Croydon.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Mr. Bingley's defense of his friend was a very able one, I dare say; but since he is unacquainted with several parts of the story, and has learnt the rest from that friend himself, I shall venture to still think of both gentlemen as I did before.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Catherine began to feel something of disappointment—she was tired of being continually pressed against by people, the generality of whose faces possessed nothing to interest, and with all of whom she was so wholly unacquainted that she could not relieve the irksomeness of imprisonment by the exchange of a syllable with any of her fellow captives; and when at last arrived in the tea-room, she felt yet more the awkwardness of having no party to join, no acquaintance to claim, no gentleman to assist them.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

Then it was that the lust of the chase would suddenly come upon him, and that his brilliant reasoning power would rise to the level of intuition, until those who were unacquainted with his methods would look askance at him as on a man whose knowledge was not that of other mortals.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But great allowances should be given to a king, who lives wholly secluded from the rest of the world, and must therefore be altogether unacquainted with the manners and customs that most prevail in other nations: the want of which knowledge will ever produce many prejudices, and a certain narrowness of thinking, from which we, and the politer countries of Europe, are wholly exempted.

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

But I was perfectly unacquainted with towns and large assemblages of men.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)