UNACQUAINTED WITH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does unacquainted with mean? 

• UNACQUAINTED WITH (adjective)
  The adjective UNACQUAINTED WITH has 1 sense:

1. having little or no knowledge of

  Familiarity information: UNACQUAINTED WITH used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNACQUAINTED WITH (adjective)

Sense 1

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 

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

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

"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)

As many of the principal members of the club as could be got into the small room without filling it, supported Mr. Micawber in front of the petition, while my old friend Captain Hopkins (who had washed himself, to do honour to so solemn an occasion) stationed himself close to it, to read it to all who were unacquainted with its contents.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

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)

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)

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)

It was his nature to be communicative; he liked to open to a mind unacquainted with the world glimpses of its scenes and ways (I do not mean its corrupt scenes and wicked ways, but such as derived their interest from the great scale on which they were acted, the strange novelty by which they were characterised); and I had a keen delight in receiving the new ideas he offered, in imagining the new pictures he portrayed, and following him in thought through the new regions he disclosed, never startled or troubled by one noxious allusion.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Safie nursed her with the most devoted affection, but the poor girl died, and the Arabian was left alone, unacquainted with the language of the country and utterly ignorant of the customs of the world.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)