una"cquainted, ppl. adj.
[Composed by the prefix un- and acquainted.]
Derivative: unacquaintedness.
1. Of persons: Not personally known (to one); unknown. Obsolete.
Being a Londoner though altogether unacquainted, I have requested his company at supper.
Thomas Dekker & J. Webster (North-ward Hoe, 1607) OED
2. Of things: Unknown, unfamiliar, strange, unusual (to someone). Obsolete.
3. Of persons: Having no acquaintance with something; having no knowledge of something; being not acquainted with something.
Synonyms: Strange, ignorant, unknowing, uninformed.
Antonym: Acquainted; knowing; informed; intellegenced; learned; understanding.
She then considered, that it would be vain to attempt an escape from Barnardine, by flight, since the length and the intricacy of the way she had passed would soon enable him to overtake her, who was unacquainted with the turnings, and whose feebleness would not suffer her to run long with swiftness.
Ann Radcliffe (The Mysteries of Udolpho, 1794)
To those unacquainted with the fact of their motion, […] the assertion that a glacier moves must appear […] startling and incredible.
John Tyndall (The Glaciers of the Alps, 1860)
I will spare myself the pain of recurring to scenes with which you are not unacquainted, and proceed to those which more immediately attract your interest.
Ann Radcliffe (A Sicilian Romance)
Unacquainted as she was with the world.
Samuel Richardson (Clarissa, 1747)
It was Dora who applied the remedies, and with a skill and steadiness that would have seemed absolutely marvellous to one unacquainted with the young girl's previous history and training.
J. G. Austin (Outpost)
The crags, adjoining the bridge, were of such tremendous height and steepness, that to have climbed either would have been scarcely practicable to a person unacquainted with the ascent.
Ann Radcliffe (The Mysteries of Udolpho, 1794)
Construed with:
It is construed with with (formerly with in, of, or to, which are obsolete). Also with that and clause.
Being very unacquainted in the style and form of dedications.
Jonathan Swift (A Tale of a Tub, 1704)
A species of torture, but of the nature of which we are happily unacquainted in this country.
Charlotte Smith (Romance of Real Life, 1787)
[Mr. Heckewelder appears] to have been unacquainted that grasshoppers were, in fact, the favorite food of this Nine-killer
Alexander Wilson (American Ornithology, 1808)
4. Of persons: Not having acquaintance, not being personally acquainted, with another. (Without prepositional complement or in prepositionless construction) Not mutually acquainted; not having interrelation.
Synonyms: Stranger; unfamiliar.
Antonym: Acquainted; introducee; familiar; intimate; personally interrelated.
The exceeding kindness […] with which friends, as well as critics, with whom I was personally unacquainted, received my first literary venture.
Hugh Lane (Differentiation in Rheum. Dis., 1892) OED
I am unacquainted with the professor.
George Meredith (The Egoist, 1879)
I was obliged to confess—I felt ashamed, even of being at this disadvantage before Littimer—that Miss Mowcher and I were wholly unacquainted.
Charles Dickens (David Copperfield)
Conjugates of unacquainted: Unacquaintance, acquaintance, acquainted, acquaint, acquaintanceship, acquaintancy, acquaintedness, quaint (adj.), quaintish, quaintlike, quaintly, quaintness, inacquaintance, cognition, cognitional, cognitive, cognitively, cognitum, cognizability, cognizable, cognisable, cognizableness, cognizably, cognizance, cognizanced, cognizant, cognisant, cognize, cognise, cognizer, cogniser, recognizable, recognition, recognitive, recognitory, recognizability, recognizably, recognizance, recognizant, recognize, recognized, recognizedly, recognizer, recognizing, recognizingly, cognomen (n.), cognomen (v.), cognominal, cognominally, cognominate, cognomination, cognominity, cognominize, cognominous, cognosce, cognoscent, cognoscibility, cognoscible, connoisseur, connoisseurship, ignore, ignoble (adj), ignoble (v.), ignobleness, ignobly, ignominious, ignominiously, ignominiousness, ignorable, ignorance, ignorant, ignorantly, ignoration, ignominy, incognito, incognizability, incognizable, incognisable, incognizance, incognizant, incognoscent, incognoscibility, incognoscible, inconnu, narrate, narratee, narration, narrative (adj. n.), narratively, narrativity, narrator, narratory, narratress, narratrix, nobilitate, nobilitated, nobilitating, nobility, noble, nobleman, noblemanly, noble-minded, noble-mindedness, nobleness, noblesse, nobly, notice (n. v.), noticeable, noticeability, noticeably, noticer, notifiable, notification, notifier, notify, notifying, noting, notion, notional, notionalist, notionally, notionary, notionate, notionless, notorious, notoriety, notorify, notoriously, notoriousness, precognition, precognitive, precognizant, precognize, prognose, prognostic, prognosticable, prognostical, prognostically, prognosticate, prognosticated, prognostication, prognosticative, prognosticator, prognosticatory; reacquaint, reacquaintance.
