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# unacquainted

«unacquainted» in Mova's school dictionary: **not knowing about it or not having met it: «unacquainted…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (unacquainted)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Unacquainted with something means not knowing about it or not having met it: «unacquainted with the rules». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unacquainted/#m1)

2) Unacquainted people have not met each other before. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unacquainted/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

It appears in stories and formal writing, often in older books: a stranger unacquainted with the town, a reader unacquainted with a word. In everyday talk people say «didn't know» or «hadn't met». Phrases: «unacquainted with».

### examples

- The new boy was unacquainted with the school's rules. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unacquainted/#x1)
- Many people are unacquainted with this old card game. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unacquainted/#x2)
- The two families were unacquainted until the street party. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unacquainted/#x3)
- Being unacquainted with the forest, we kept to the path. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unacquainted/#x4)
- The visitor seemed unacquainted with British money. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unacquainted/#x5)
- I was unacquainted with the word, so I looked it up. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unacquainted/#x6)

### note

Followed by «with»: «unacquainted with the area». Spelt with «cq»: un-ac-QUAINT-ed. Opposite: acquainted. Formal; «not familiar with» means nearly the same.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «unacquainted» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unacquainted/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.