unacquainted
unacquainted adjective: not acquainted, unfamiliar (with someone or something).
Adjective
unacquainted (comparative more unacquainted, superlative most unacquainted)
- Not acquainted, unfamiliar (with someone or something).
- The Romains vnacquainted with such perills, wold not endure the hasard of the siege.1563, Arthur Golding, transl., The Historie of Leonard Aretine concerning the Warres betwene the Imperialles and the Gothes for the Possession of Italy, London: George Bucke, Book 1, Chapter 10, p. 38
- […] from our Main-top we saw the Islands to the Southward of us, and being unacquainted, knew not whether we might find among them a Channel to pass through […]1705, William Dampier, Voyages and Descriptions, London: James Knapton, Volume 2, “Voyages to the Bay of Campeachy,” Chapter 1, p. 26
- Not usual; unfamiliar; strange.
- Who when she saw Duessa sunny bright,
Adornd with gold and iewels shining cleare,
She greatly grew amazed at the sight,
And th’vnacquainted light began to feare:1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 66 - […] [we] fill up
Her enemies’ ranks,—I must withdraw and weep
Upon the spot of this enforced cause,—
To grace the gentry of a land remote,
And follow unacquainted colours here?c. 1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Iohn”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...
- Who when she saw Duessa sunny bright,
unacquainted meaning in Hindi, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam
unacquainted in Hindi
- unacquainted, unfamiliar
- अपरिचित aparicit
unacquainted in Urdu
- انجان, غیرمانوس, ناآشنا, ناواقف
unacquainted in Bengali
- unacquainted
- অপরিচিত opricito
unacquainted in Malayalam
- unaccustomed, unfamiliar, unused
- പരിചിയിച്ചിട്ടില്ലാത്ത, പരിചിതമല്ലാത്ത, അപരിചിതമായ, വഴക്കമില്ലാത്ത, പതിവില്ലാത്ത, ശീലമില്ലാത്ത
More languagesFewer languages
- unacquainted in Kannada
- ಗುರುತಿಲ್ಲದ, ಅಪರಿಚಿತ, ಅಭ್ಯಾಸವಿಲ್ಲದ, ರೂಡಿ ಇಲ್ಲದ
Examples of unacquainted in a sentence
- “[…] Were my mother to see you—to know you, I am sure she would approve; but you are unacquainted personally, and the ancient feud between the families—”1819, Jedediah Cleishbotham [pseudonym; Walter Scott], Tales of My Landlord, Third Series. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV)...
- In Poland, France, England, students, young gentlemen of his time, had been unacquainted with kitchens.1970, Saul Bellow, chapter 1, in Mr. Sammler’s Planet, Greenwich, CT: Fawcett, published 1971, page 11:
Forms of unacquainted
| comparative | more unacquainted |
|---|---|
| superlative | most unacquainted |
Origin of unacquainted
From un- + acquainted.
Words formed from unacquainted
Questions about unacquainted
- What does unacquainted mean?
- Unacquainted means not acquainted, unfamiliar (with someone or something).
- What is unacquainted in Hindi?
- Unacquainted in Hindi is अपरिचित (aparicit). See Unacquainted meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use unacquainted in a sentence?
- “[…] Were my mother to see you—to know you, I am sure she would approve; but you are unacquainted personally, and the ancient feud between the families—”
- What part of speech is unacquainted?
- Unacquainted is an adjective.
Words near unacquainted in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: unacquainted (page history and authors); अपरिचित (Hindi) (page history and authors); unacquainted (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); অপরিচিত (Bengali) (page history and authors); unacquainted (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); unacquainted (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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