| 单词 | familiar |
| 释义 | familiar (once / 73 pages) nadj When something is so commonplace you know it well, it's familiar. A familiar song might be one that you hum along to without even thinking about it. Like family, anything or anyone you're familiar with has been in your life for a while. It can be used in many ways. After six years of Spanish, you'll be familiar with how to conjugate verbs. You and your close friends are on familiar terms. The smell of musty tent fabric is familiar to anyone who grew up going camping a lot, and may bring on a wave of nostalgia. WORD FAMILYfamiliar: familiarise, familiarity, familiarize, familiarly, familiars, overfamiliar, unfamiliar+/familiarise: familiarisation, familiarised, familiarises, familiarising/familiarity: familiarities/familiarize: familiarization, familiarized, familiarizes, familiarizing/unfamiliar: unfamiliarity, unfamiliarly/unfamiliarity: unfamiliarities USAGE EXAMPLESTheir reward is one more game against Alabama and a quarterback, Hurts, who will look awfully familiar. Wall Street Journal(Jan 02, 2017) Every Christmas season the two Hallmark Channels release or replay a familiar holiday script. Salon(Jan 02, 2017) Not coincidentally, she was familiar with the work of Julian Jaynes. The New Yorker(Jan 01, 2017) 1n a friend who is frequently in the company of another Syn|Hypo|Hyper associate, companion, comrade, fellow date, escort a participant in a date playfellow, playmatea companion at play tovarich, tovarischa comrade (especially in Russian communism) blind datea participant in a blind date (someone you meet for the first time when you have a date with them) friend a person you know well and regard with affection and trust 2n a person attached to the household of a high official (as a pope or bishop) who renders service in return for support Hyper retainer, servant a person working in the service of another (especially in the household) 3n a spirit (usually in animal form) that acts as an assistant to a witch or wizard Syn|Hyper familiar spirit disembodied spirit, spirit any incorporeal supernatural being that can become visible (or audible) to human beings 4adj well known or easily recognized a familiar figure familiar songs familiar guests Syn|Ant acquainted having fair knowledge of beatenmuch trodden and worn smooth or bare long-familiar, well-knownfrequently experienced; known closely or intimately old(used for emphasis) very familiar knownapprehended with certainty unfamiliar not known or well known strange, unknownnot known before unacquainted, unacquainted with, unfamiliar withhaving little or no knowledge of foreign, strangerelating to or originating in or characteristic of another place or part of the world unknownnot known 5adj 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 Syn|Ant common, usual commonly encountered common or gardenthe usual or familiar type everydaycommonplace and ordinary strange, unusual being definitely out of the ordinary and unexpected; slightly odd or even a bit weird antic, fantastic, fantastical, grotesqueludicrously odd crazybizarre or fantastic curious, funny, odd, peculiar, queer, rum, rummy, singularbeyond or deviating from the usual or expected eerie, eeryinspiring a feeling of fear; strange and frightening exoticstrikingly strange or unusual freakystrange and somewhat frightening gothiccharacterized by gloom and mystery and the grotesque oddishsomewhat strange othervery unusual; different in character or quality from the normal or expected quaintstrange in an interesting or pleasing way quaintvery strange or unusual; odd or even incongruous in character or appearance weirdstrikingly odd or unusual 6adj (usually followed by `with') well informed about or knowing thoroughly familiar with the complex machinery he was familiar with those roads Syn conversant informed having much knowledge or education 7adj having mutual interests or affections; of established friendship on familiar terms Syn intimate close close in relevance or relationship |
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