Synonyms of the word familiar


FAMILIARACQUAINTED - ASSOCIATE - BEATEN - CLOSE - COMMON - COMPANION - COMRADE - CONVERSANT - EVERYDAY - FELLOW - FRIEND - INFORMED - INTIMATE - KNOWN - OLD - RETAINER - SERVANT - SPIRIT - USUAL - WELL-KNOWN

familiar

  • adj. Known to one.
  • adj. Acquainted.
  • adj. Intimate or friendly.
  • adj. Inappropriately intimate or friendly.
  • adj. Of or pertaining to a family; familial.
  • n. (obsolete) A member of one's family or household.
  • n. (obsolete) A close friend.
  • n. An attendant spirit, often in animal form.

acquainted

  • adj. Personally known; familiar.
  • v. simple past tense and past participle of acquaint.

associate

  • adj. Joined with another or others and having equal or nearly equal status.
  • adj. Having partial status or privileges.
  • adj. Following or accompanying; concomitant.
  • adj. (biology, dated) Connected by habit or sympathy.
  • n. A person united with another or others in an act, enterprise, or business; a partner.
  • n. Somebody with whom one works, coworker, colleague.
  • n. A companion; a comrade.
  • n. One that habitually accompanies or is associated with another; an attendant circumstance.
  • n. A member of an institution or society who is granted only partial status or privileges.
  • v. (intransitive) To join in or form a league, union, or association.
  • v. (intransitive) To spend time socially; keep company.
  • v. (transitive) To join as a partner, ally, or friend.
  • v. (transitive) To connect or join together; combine.
  • v. (transitive) To connect evidentially, or in the mind or imagination.
  • v. (reflexive, in deliberative bodies) To endorse.
  • v. (mathematics) To be associative.
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To accompany; to be in the company of.

beaten

  • adj. defeated.
  • adj. repeatedly struck.
  • adj. (cooking, of a liquid) mixed by paddling with a wooden spoon or other implement.
  • v. past participle of beat.

close

  • v. (physical) To remove a gap.
  • v. (social) To finish, to terminate.
  • v. To come or gather around; to enclose; to encompass; to confine.
  • v. (surveying) To have a vector sum of 0; that is, to form a closed polygon.
  • n. An end or conclusion.
  • n. The manner of shutting; the union of parts; junction.
  • n. A grapple in wrestling.
  • n. (music) The conclusion of a strain of music; cadence.
  • n. (music) A double bar marking the end.
  • adj. (now rare) Closed, shut.
  • adj. Narrow; confined.
  • adj. At a little distance; near.
  • adj. Intimate; well-loved.
  • adj. Oppressive; without motion or ventilation; causing a feeling of lassitude.
  • adj. (Ireland, England, Scotland, weather) Hot, humid, with no wind.
  • adj. (linguistics, phonetics, of a vowel) Articulated with the tongue body relatively close to the hard palate.
  • adj. Strictly confined; carefully guarded.
  • adj. (obsolete) Out of the way of observation; secluded; secret; hidden.
  • adj. Nearly equal; almost evenly balanced.
  • adj. Short.
  • adj. (archaic) Dense; solid; compact.
  • adj. (archaic) Concise; to the point.
  • adj. (dated) Difficult to obtain.
  • adj. (dated) Parsimonious; stingy.
  • adj. Adhering strictly to a standard or original; exact.
  • adj. Accurate; careful; precise; also, attentive; undeviating; strict.
  • adj. Marked, evident.
  • n. (now rare) An enclosed field.
  • n. (Britain) A street that ends in a dead end.
  • n. (Scotland) A very narrow alley between two buildings, often overhung by one of the buildings above the…
  • n. (Scotland) The common staircase in a tenement.
  • n. A cathedral close.
  • n. (law) The interest which one may have in a piece of ground, even though it is not enclosed.

common

  • adj. Mutual; shared by more than one.
  • adj. Occurring or happening regularly or frequently; usual.
  • adj. Found in large numbers or in a large quantity.
  • adj. Simple, ordinary or vulgar.
  • adj. (grammar) In some languages, particularly Germanic languages, of the gender originating from the coalescence…
  • adj. (grammar) Of or pertaining to common nouns as opposed to proper nouns.
  • adj. Vernacular, referring to the name of a kind of plant or animal, i.e., common name vs. scientific name.
  • adj. (obsolete) Profane; polluted.
  • adj. (obsolete) Given to lewd habits; prostitute.
  • n. Mutual good, shared by more than one.
  • n. A tract of land in common ownership; common land.
  • n. The people; the community.
  • n. (law) The right of taking a profit in the land of another, in common either with the owner or with other…
  • v. (obsolete) To communicate (something).
  • v. (obsolete) To converse, talk.
  • v. (obsolete) To have sex.
  • v. (obsolete) To participate.
  • v. (obsolete) To have a joint right with others in common ground.
  • v. (obsolete) To board together; to eat at a table in common.

companion

  • n. A friend, acquaintance, or partner; someone with whom one spends time or keeps company.
  • n. (dated) A person employed to accompany or travel with another.
  • n. (nautical) The framework on the quarterdeck of a sailing ship through which daylight entered the cabins…
  • n. (nautical) The covering of a hatchway on an upper deck which leads to the companionway; the stairs themselves.
  • n. (topology) A knot in whose neighborhood another, specified knot meets every meridian disk.
  • n. (figuratively) A thing or phenomenon that is closely associated with another thing, phenomenon, or person.
  • n. (attributive) An appended source of media or information, designed to be used in conjunction with and…
  • n. (astronomy) A celestial object that is associated with another.
  • n. A knight of the lowest rank in certain orders.
  • n. (obsolete, derogatory) A fellow; a rogue.
  • v. (obsolete) To be a companion to; to attend on; to accompany.
  • v. (obsolete) To qualify as a companion; to make equal.

comrade

  • n. A mate, companion, or associate.
  • n. A companion in battle; fellow soldier.
  • n. A fellow socialist, communist or other very politically leftist person.
  • n. A gender-neutral title, functionally similar to "Mr.", "Mrs.", "Miss", "Ms." etc, in left-wing circles…
  • v. (transitive) To associate with in a friendly way.

conversant

  • adj. closely familiar; current; having frequent interaction.
  • adj. familiar or acquainted by use or study; well-informed; versed.
  • adj. (obsolete) Concerned; occupied.
  • n. One who converses with another.

everyday

  • adj. appropriate for ordinary use, rather than for special occasions.
  • adj. commonplace, ordinary.
  • adv. Misspelling of every day.
  • n. (rare) the ordinary or routine day or occasion.

fellow

  • n. (obsolete) A colleague or partner.
  • n. (archaic) A companion; a comrade.
  • n. A man without good breeding or worth; an ignoble or mean man.
  • n. An equal in power, rank, character, etc.
  • n. One of a pair, or of two things used together or suited to each other; a mate.
  • n. (colloquial) A male person; a man.
  • n. (rare) A person; an individual, male or female.
  • n. (heading) A rank or title in the professional world, usually given as "Fellow".
  • adj. Having common characteristics; being of the same kind, or in the same group.
  • v. To suit with; to pair with; to match.

friend

  • n. A person other than a family member, spouse or lover whose company one enjoys and towards whom one feels…
  • n. A boyfriend or girlfriend.
  • n. An associate who provides assistance.
  • n. A person with whom one is vaguely or indirectly acquainted.
  • n. A person who backs or supports something.
  • n. (informal) An object or idea that can be used for good.
  • n. (colloquial, ironic, used only in the vocative) Used as a form of address when warning someone.
  • n. (object-oriented programming) A function or class granted special access to the private and protected…
  • n. (climbing) A spring-loaded camming device.
  • n. (obsolete) A paramour of either sex.
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To act as a friend to, to befriend; to be friendly to, to help.
  • v. (transitive) To add (a person) to a list of friends on a social networking site; to officially designate…

informed

  • v. simple past tense and past participle of inform.
  • adj. Instructed; having knowledge of a fact or area of education.
  • adj. Based on knowledge; founded on due understanding of a situation.
  • adj. (obsolete) Created, given form.
  • adj. (obsolete) unformed or ill-formed; deformed; shapeless.

intimate

  • adj. Closely acquainted; familiar.
  • adj. Of or involved in a sexual relationship.
  • adj. Personal; private.
  • n. A very close friend.
  • n. (in plural intimates) Women's underwear, sleepwear, or lingerie, especially offered for sale in a store.
  • v. (transitive) To suggest or disclose discreetly.

known

  • adj. Identified as a specific type; renowned, famous.
  • adj. Researched, accepted, familiar.
  • n. (algebra) A variable or constant whose value is already determined.
  • n. Any fact or situation which is known or familiar.
  • v. past participle of know.

old

  • adj. Of an object, concept, relationship, etc., having existed for a relatively long period of time.
  • adj. Of an item that has been used and so is not new (unused).
  • adj. Having existed or lived for the specified time.
  • adj. (heading) Of an earlier time.
  • adj. Tiresome.
  • adj. Said of subdued colors, particularly reds, pinks and oranges, as if they had faded over time.
  • adj. A grammatical intensifier, often used in describing something positive. (Mostly in idioms like good old,…
  • adj. (obsolete) Excessive, abundant.
  • n. (with "the") People who are old; old beings; the older generation, taken as a group.

retainer

  • n. Any thing or person that retains.
  • n. A dependent or follower of someone of rank.
  • n. A paid servant, especially one who has been employed for many years.
  • n. A fee one pays to reserve the other's time for services.
  • n. (dentistry) A device that holds teeth in position after orthodontic treatment.

servant

  • n. One who is hired to perform regular household or other duties, and receives compensation. As opposed to…
  • n. One who serves another, providing help in some manner.
  • v. (obsolete) To subject.

spirit

  • n. The collective souls of man or another entity.
  • n. A supernatural being, often but not exclusively without physical form; ghost, fairy, angel.
  • n. Enthusiasm.
  • n. The manner or style of something.
  • n. (usually in the plural) A volatile liquid, such as alcohol. The plural form spirits is a generic term…
  • n. Energy; ardour.
  • n. One who is vivacious or lively; one who evinces great activity or peculiar characteristics of mind or…
  • n. Temper or disposition of mind; mental condition or disposition; intellectual or moral state; often in…
  • n. (obsolete) Air set in motion by breathing; breath; hence, sometimes, life itself.
  • n. (obsolete) A rough breathing; an aspirate, such as the letter h; also, a mark denoting aspiration.
  • n. Intent; real meaning; opposed to the letter, or formal statement.
  • n. (alchemy, obsolete) Any of the four substances: sulphur, sal ammoniac, quicksilver, and arsenic (or, according…
  • n. (dyeing) stannic chloride.
  • v. To carry off, especially in haste, secrecy, or mystery.
  • v. To animate with vigor; to excite; to encourage; to inspirit; sometimes followed by up.

usual

  • adj. most commonly occurring.

well-known

  • adj. Familiar, famous, renowned or widely known.
  • adj. (computing, not comparable) Generally recognised; reserved for some usual purpose.

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