Definitions of Familiar

1.   A confidential officer employed in the service of the tribunal, especially in apprehending and imprisoning the accused.

2.   An attendant demon.

3.   a person who is frequently in the company of another; " drinking companions"; " comrades in arms"

4.   Well known; well understood; common; frequent; as, a familiar illustration.

5.   a person attached to the household of a high official ( as a pope or bishop) who renders service in return for support

6.   An intimate acquaintance; attendant demon.

7.   Of or pertaining to a family; domestic.

8.   Well acquainted or intimate; showing the manner of an intimate; free; having a thorough knowledge of; well known or understood.

9.   a spirit ( usually in animal form) that acts as an assistant to a witch or wizard

10.   Characterized by, or exhibiting, the manner of an intimate friend; not formal; unconstrained; easy; accessible.

11.   Improperly acquainted; wrongly intimate.

12.   An attendant demon or evil spirit.

13.   Pertaining to a family; domestic; well- acquainted; intimate; affable; not formal or distant; well versed in; well known or understood by frequent use; unceremonious; unconstrained; intimate in an unlawful degree.

14.   Intimate; free; versed in; well- known.

15.   A familiar friend.

16.   well known or easily recognized; " a familiar figure"; " familiar songs"; " familiar guests"

17.   One well or long acquainted; a demon supposed to attend at call.

18.   An intimate; a companion.

19.   Well acquainted; thoroughly versed.

20.   An intimate; one long acquainted; a demon or evil spirit supposed to attend at a call.

21.   Familiarly.

22.   ( usually followed by ` with') well informed about or knowing thoroughly; " conversant with business trends"; " familiar with the complex machinery"; " he was familiar with those roads"

23.   Intimate; informal; forward; free. 3, Well known; common; unaffected.

24.   A servant of the Inquisition.

25.   within normal everyday experience; common and ordinary; not strange; " familiar ordinary objects found in every home"; " a familiar everyday scene"; " a familiar excuse"; " a day like any other filled with familiar duties and experiences"

26.   having mutual interests or affections; of established friendship; " on familiar terms"; " pretending she is on an intimate footing with those she slanders"

27.   Closely acquainted or intimate, as a friend or companion; well versed in, as any subject of study; as, familiar with the Scriptures.

28.   Well acquainted with; intimate; affable; easy and unconstrained; common; frequent.

29.   An intima te.

30.   Well acquainted, or intimate, with; domestic; affable; easy; unconstrained; unceremonious.

31.   One long acquainted; a spirit or demon supposed to wait on; an officer or servant of the Inquisition employed to arrest and imprison the accused.

Antonyms for Familiar

fresh, timid, cold, aloof, transcendental, crazy, far-out, remarkable, aberrated, kinky, wild, insensible, creepy, reserved, haunting, unparalleled, erratic, analphabetic, demure, eerie, eccentric, erudite, rummy, extraordinary, gothic, peculiar, weird, unheard-of, preternatural, miraculous, nonpareil, remote, unknown, deviate, romantic, freak, frosty, strange, humble, unrivaled, oblivious, inattentive, freaky, infrequent, intermittent, unassertive, odd, especial, laughable, literary, detached, diffident, unique, extraordinaire, unacquainted, foreigner, unaware, unpretentious, unwonted, Aberrational, illiterate, unfamiliar with, rum, down-to-earth, fantastic, marvelous, curious, spaced-out, Queerish, supernormal, screwy, droll, cranky, untaught, grotesque, onetime, wilding, out-of-the-way, whimsical, untamed, unsociable, unconscious, unexampled, retiring, crotchety, anomalous, antisocial, standoffish, transcendent, uneducated, outre, bizarre, quaint, unmatched, unheeding, unread, new, sporadic, feral, rare, superhuman, occasional, funny, mousy, novel, oddish, other, one-off, off-the-wall, meek, exotic, blind, off-kilter, unknowing, unlearned, untypical, unlettered, eery, inimitable, unaccustomed, unassuming, dark, antic, modest, incomparable, learned, unsurpassed, unusual, bashful, atypical, deviant, spookish, singular, uninformed, magical, funky, unprecedented, uncustomary, unfamiliar, fantastical, matchless, uncanny, lowly, ignorant, unearthly, distant, phenomenal, quirky, timorous, glamorous, uninstructed, bookish, peerless, abnormal, aberrant, bizarro, benighted, stranger, unnatural, unknowledgeable, irregular, unmindful, unequaled, seldom, unbroken, shy, untutored, uncommon, way out, outlandish, unwitting, outsider, nonliterate, spooky, unacquainted with, cool, original, devious, unschooled, weirdo, withdrawn, exceptional, only, savage, exceeding, undomesticated, outlander, unfriendly, one shot, unsurpassable, offbeat, comical, wacky, supernatural, simple.

Quotes of Familiar

1. National Osteoporosis Awareness and Prevention Month is celebrated each May, and becomes a chance for our Nation to become more familiar with the effects of this disease, and about the preventable steps that we can take to deal with it. – Lois Capps

2. Trying to write books with a subject matter or in a genre or style you're not familiar with is the best way to find the Big Block looming. – Jeffery Deaver

3. I've never seen anything like it since. Some of the Canada Cups came close, but by then a lot of European players came and played in our league so we were more familiar with them. – Marcel Dionne

4. And that because the moving parts are a million times smaller than the ones we're familiar with, they move a million times faster, just as a smaller tuning fork produces a higher pitch than a large one. – K. Eric Drexler

5. The vast majority of human beings dislike and even actually dread all notions with which they are not familiar Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have generally been persecuted, and always derided as fools and madmen. – Aldous Huxley

6. Groupies to me, were people who followed you around. Familiar faces who were always there, asking for autographs. We have more of those now, but they're not sexual. – Davy Jones

7. If there is a look of human eyes that tells of perpetual loneliness, so there is also the familiar look that is the sign of perpetual crowds. – Alice Meynell

8. Nothing is more common than for men to think that because they are familiar with words they understand the ideas they stand for. – John Henry Newman

9. We have such a long, familiar history with Peter Falk. The minute his mug is on that screen people smile. – Paul Reiser

10. I had to make a change. It was no slight on my staff either. We'd all been at Boro for seven years. But certain players had got too familiar with the set -up. I had to turn it round. Terry was the one man I could think of to do it. So I went for him. – Bryan Robson

11. He who does not become familiar with nature through love will never know her. – Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

12. Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar – Percy Bysshe Shelley

13. I met the guys through a friend of a friend, and their former drummer had quit. I wasn't too familiar with the Chili Peppers before that, so I joined at the end of 88' and we finished recording Mother's Milk at the end of 89', next thing I know I'm in Spin with a sock. – Chad Smith

14. We are familiar with terrorism. But indiscriminate, cross -border, religiously motivated terrorism is new. – Gijs de Vries

15. There are two sayings that are familiar in every news room across the country: 1) sex sells; 2) if it bleeds it leads. – Armstrong Williams

Usage examples for Familiar

1. “ " I suppose your life has not been of a kind to make you very familiar with it all. ” – The Honorable Peter Stirling and What People Thought of Him by Paul Leicester Ford

2. “ You are most of you already familiar with them. ” – Complete State of the Union Addresses from 1790 to the Present by Various

3. “ It isn't the things that are right and perfect in your life that make it familiar ” – The Tunnel Under The World by Frederik Pohl

4. “ " You've got to let us go, because we are the only ones who are at all familiar with her theory," Rodebush insisted. ” – Triplanetary by Edward Elmer Smith

5. “ No; and yet, now it was suggested to him, there had been something strangely familiar about one of the men. ” – The Light That Lures by Percy Brebner

6. “ It is good that you have fallen in with us, Jeriji, you who are familiar with the place. ” – The Luck of Gerard Ridgeley by Bertram Mitford

7. “ The name has a familiar ring, somehow. ” – The Bronze Bell by Louis Joseph Vance

8. “ To Fanny the thought of death was familiar ” – Tempest and Sunshine by Mary J. Holmes

9. “ That young chap was too familiar anyway. ” – Patty's Suitors by Carolyn Wells

10. “ In his interest in his companion, he had until this moment, taken no note of things without, nor did his eyes rest now upon any familiar scene. ” – The Case and The Girl by Randall Parrish

11. “ And I said I wasn't sure, I had met so many people, and there was something familiar about him. ” – Lahoma by John Breckinridge Ellis

12. “ The name, too, had a familiar sound. ” – Peter A Novel of Which He is Not the Hero by F. Hopkinson Smith

13. “ It is assumed that the hearer is familiar with the principles referred to. ” – Logic, Inductive and Deductive by William Minto

14. “ " Why, to be sure," says I, like a fool, " you have been a little over- familiar ” – A Set of Rogues by Frank Barrett

15. “ Or how many of them have names which are even faintly familiar to the public?" ” – The Turnstile by A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley) Mason

16. “ People were familiar with it; they knew and liked it. ” – Paul and the Printing Press by Sara Ware Bassett

17. “ And the strange thing was that the voice was familiar ” – Salute to Adventurers by John Buchan

18. “ The first is familiar ” – Chopin: The Man and His Music by James Huneker

19. “ And not even the great Merazzi, the conductor, was more familiar with the music than he. ” – The Matador of the Five Towns and Other Stories by Arnold Bennett

20. “ Probably the best test of value is one with which I was familiar some years ago. ” – Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Joshua Rose

Rhymes for Familiar

• unfamiliar;

Idioms for Familiar

• be on familiar terms;
• familiar ring;
• have a familiar ring;
• have a familiar ring ( to it);