Nouns (7)
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familiar, familiar spirit
n. a spirit (usually in animal form) that acts as an assistant to a witch or wizard
companion, comrade, fellow, familiar, associate
n. a friend who is frequently in the company of another; "drinking companions"; "comrades in arms"
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Adjectives (7)
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familiar
adj. "the limits of the known world"
familiar
adj. well known or easily recognized; "a familiar figure"; "familiar songs"; "familiar guests"
familiar
adj. 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"
familiar, unstudied
adj. "lectured in a familiar style"
familiar, intimate
adj. having mutual interests or affections; of established friendship; "on familiar terms"; "pretending she is on an intimate footing with those she slanders"
Fuzzynyms (106)
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companion, comrade, fellow, familiar, associate
n. a friend who is frequently in the company of another; "drinking companions"; "comrades in arms"
chum salmon, chum, Oncorhynchus keta
n. a large Pacific salmon with small spots on its back; an important food fish
friend
n. a person you know well and regard with affection and trust; "he was my best friend at the university"
quaker, trembler
n. one who quakes and trembles with (or as with) fear
confidant, intimate
n. someone to whom private matters are confided
confidant, intimate
n. someone to whom private matters are confided
chum salmon, chum, Oncorhynchus keta
n. a large Pacific salmon with small spots on its back; an important food fish
assistant, helper, help, supporter
n. a person who contributes to the fulfillment of a need or furtherance of an effort or purpose; "my invaluable assistant"; "they hired additional help to finish the work"
acquaintance, friend
n. a person with whom you are acquainted; "I have trouble remembering the names of all my acquaintances"; "we are friends of the family"
associate
n. a person with subordinate membership in a society, institution, or commercial enterprise; "associates in the law firm bill at a lower rate than do partners"
colleague, co-worker, fellow worker, workfellow
n. an associate that one works with
match
n. the score needed to win a match
member, fellow member
n. one of the persons who compose a social group (especially individuals who have joined and participate in a group organization); "only members will be admitted"; "a member of the faculty"; "she was introduced to all the members of his family"
participant
n. someone who takes part in an activity
neighbor, neighbour
n. a nearby object of the same kind; "Fort Worth is a neighbor of Dallas"; "what is the closest neighbor to the Earth?"
familiar, familiar spirit
n. a spirit (usually in animal form) that acts as an assistant to a witch or wizard
quaker, trembler
n. one who quakes and trembles with (or as with) fear
wife, married woman
n. a married woman; a man's partner in marriage
bride
n. a woman who has recently been married
countryman
n. a man from your own country
husband, hubby, married man
n. a married man; a woman's partner in marriage
companion, fellow traveler, fellow traveller
n. a traveler who accompanies you
side by side
adj. closely related or associated; "a city in which communism and democracy had to live side by side"
aware(p), cognizant, cognisant
adj. (sometimes followed by `of') having or showing knowledge or understanding or realization or perception; "was aware of his opponent's hostility"; "became aware of her surroundings"; "aware that he had exceeded the speed limit"
conversant
adj. well informed about or familiar with; usu followed by "with": "conversant with business trends"
frequent
adj. coming at short intervals or habitually; "a frequent guest"; "frequent complaints"
habitual
adj. made a norm or custom or habit; "his habitual practice was to eat an early supper"; "her habitual neatness"
perennial, recurrent, repeated
adj. recurring again and again; "perennial efforts to stipulate the requirements"
regular, steady
adj. relating to a person who does something regularly; "a regular customer"; "a steady drinker"
customary, habited, habitual, wonted
adj. commonly used or practiced; usual; "his accustomed thoroughness"; "took his customary morning walk"; "his habitual comment"; "with her wonted candor"
everyday, mundane, quotidian, routine, unremarkable, workaday
adj. found in the ordinary course of events; "a placid everyday scene"; "it was a routine day"; "there's nothing quite like a real...train conductor to add color to a quotidian commute"- Anita Diamant
normal, average
adj. conforming with or constituting a norm or standard or level or type or social norm; not abnormal; "serve wine at normal room temperature"; "normal diplomatic relations"; "normal working hours"; "normal word order"; "normal curiosity"; "the normal course of events"
commonplace
adj. completely ordinary and unremarkable; "air travel has now become commonplace"; "commonplace everyday activities"
pedestrian, prosaic, prosy, earthbound
adj. lacking wit or imagination; "a pedestrian movie plot"
routine, habitual
adj. occurring at fixed times or predictable intervals; "made her routine trip to the store"
frequent
adj. frequently encountered; "a frequent (or common) error is using the transitive verb `lay' for the intransitive `lie'";
perennial, recurrent, repeated
adj. recurring again and again; "perennial efforts to stipulate the requirements"
received
adj. widely accepted as true or worthy; "a received moral idea"; "Received political wisdom says not; surveys show otherwise"- Economist
accustomed
adj. (often followed by `to') in the habit of or adapted to; "accustomed to doing her own work"; "I've grown accustomed to her face"
ceremonious, conventional
adj. rigidly formal or bound by convention; "their ceremonious greetings did not seem heartfelt"
conventional
adj. following accepted customs and proprieties; "conventional wisdom"; "she had strayed from the path of conventional behavior"; "conventional forms of address"
affable, amiable, cordial, genial
adj. diffusing warmth and friendliness; "an affable smile"; "an amiable gathering"; "cordial relations"; "a cordial greeting"; "a genial host"
commonplace
adj. completely ordinary and unremarkable; "air travel has now become commonplace"; "commonplace everyday activities"
pedestrian, prosaic, prosy, earthbound
adj. lacking wit or imagination; "a pedestrian movie plot"
cliched, ready-made
adj. repeated regularly without thought or originality; "ready-made phrases"
friendly
adj. easy to understand or use; "user-friendly computers"; "a consumer-friendly policy"; "a reader-friendly novel"
common, vernacular, vulgar
adj. being or characteristic of or appropriate to everyday language; "common parlance"; "a vernacular term"; "vernacular speakers"; "the vulgar tongue of the masses"; "the technical and vulgar names for an animal species"
matter-of-fact, prosaic
adj. not fanciful or imaginative; "local guides describe the history of various places in matter-of-fact tones"; "a prosaic and unimaginative essay"
Synonyms (39)
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appreciated, apprehended, comprehended
adj. fully understood or grasped; "dangers not yet appreciated"; "these apprehended truths"; "a thing comprehended is a thing known as fully as it can be known"
best-known
adj. most familiar or renowned; "Stevenson's best-known work is probably `Treasure Island'"
better-known, better known
adj. more familiar or renowned than the other of two: "the better known book of the two"
celebrated, famed, far-famed, famous, illustrious, notable, noted, renowned
adj. widely known and esteemed; "a famous actor"; "a celebrated musician"; "a famed scientist"; "an illustrious judge"; "a notable historian"; "a renowned painter"
identified
adj. having the identity known or established; "the identified bodies were released for burial"
legendary
adj. so celebrated as to having taken on the nature of a legend; "the legendary exploits of the arctic trailblazers"
proverbial
adj. widely known and spoken of; "her proverbial lateness"; "the proverbial absentminded professor"; "your proverbial dizzy blonde"
well-known, well known
adj. frequently experienced; known closely or intimately; "a long-familiar face"; "a well-known voice reached her ears"
regular
adj. in accord with regular practice or procedure; "took his regular morning walk"; "her regular bedtime"
knockabout
adj. suitable for rough use; "a knockabout overcoat"; "a knockabout old car"
folksy
adj. very informal and familiar; "a folksy radio commentator"; "a folksy style"
free-and-easy, casual
adj. natural and unstudied; "using their Christian names in a casual way"; "lectured in a free-and-easy style"
unceremonious, unceremonial
adj. without ceremony or formality; "an unceremonious speech"
approximate, near
adj. very close in resemblance; "sketched in an approximate likeness"; "a near likeness"
boon
adj. very close and convivial; "boon companions"
intimate
adj. marked by close acquaintance, association, or familiarity; "intimate friend"; "intimate relations between economics, politics, and legal principles" - V.L. Parrington
chummy, buddy-buddy, thick(p)
adj. (used informally) associated on close terms; "a close friend"; "the bartender was chummy with the regular customers"; "the two were thick as thieves for months"
close-knit, closely knit
adj. held together as by social or cultural ties; "a close-knit family"; "close-knit little villages"; "the group was closely knit"
confidential
adj. denoting confidence or intimacy; "a confidential approach"; "in confidential tone of voice"
dear, good, near
adj. with or in a close or intimate relationship; "a good friend"; "my sisters and brothers are near and dear"
Antonyms (28)
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stranger
n. an individual that one is not acquainted with
unknown
adj. not known; "an unknown amount"; "an unknown island"; "an unknown writer"; "an unknown source"
unfamiliar
adj. not known or well known; "a name unfamiliar to most"; "be alert at night especially in unfamiliar surroundings"
unknown
adj. not known; "an unknown amount"; "an unknown island"; "an unknown writer"; "an unknown source"
obscure, unknown, unsung
adj. not famous or acclaimed; "an obscure family"; "unsung heroes of the war"
infrequent
adj. not frequent; not occurring regularly or at short intervals; "infrequent outbursts of temper"
fresh, new, novel
adj. original and of a kind not seen before; "the computer produced a completely novel proof of a well-known theorem"
ignorant, unversed
adj. uneducated in the fundamentals of a given art or branch of learning; lacking knowledge of a specific field; "she is ignorant of quantum mechanics"; "he is musically illiterate"
unfamiliar
adj. not known or well known; "a name unfamiliar to most"; "be alert at night especially in unfamiliar surroundings"
unusual
adj. not usual or common or ordinary; "a scene of unusual beauty"; "a man of unusual ability"; "cruel and unusual punishment"; "an unusual meteorite"
aberrant, deviant, deviate
adj. markedly different from an accepted norm; "aberrant behavior"; "deviant ideas"
anomalous
adj. deviating from the general or common order or type; "advanced forms of life may be anomalous in the universe"
distant, remote
adj. far apart in relevance or relationship or kinship ; "a distant cousin"; "a remote relative"; "a distant likeness"; "considerations entirely removed (or remote) from politics"
aloof, distant, upstage
adj. remote in manner; "stood apart with aloof dignity"; "a distant smile"; "he was upstage with strangers"
restrained, reticent, unemotional
adj. cool and formal in manner
infrequent
adj. not frequent; not occurring regularly or at short intervals; "infrequent outbursts of temper"
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