Adjective familiar has 4 senses
- familiar - well known or easily recognized; "a familiar figure"; "familiar songs"; "familiar guests"
Antonyms: unfamiliar, strange, unknown, unacquainted, unacquainted with, unfamiliar with
- familiar - 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"
Antonyms: strange, unusual, antic, fantastic, fantastical, grotesque, crazy, curious, funny, odd, peculiar, queer, rum, rummy, singular, eerie, eery, exotic, freaky, gothic, oddish, other, quaint, weird
- conversant, familiar - (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"
Antonym: uninformed (indirect, via informed)
- familiar, intimate - having mutual interests or affections; of established friendship; "on familiar terms"; "pretending she is on an intimate footing with those she slanders"
Antonym: distant (indirect, via close)
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Noun familiar has 3 senses
- familiar - a person attached to the household of a high official (as a pope or bishop) who renders service in return for support
--1 is a kind of servant, retainer
- companion, comrade, fellow, familiar, associate - a person who is frequently in the company of another; "drinking companions"; "comrades in arms"
--2 is a kind of friend
--2 has particulars: date, escort; playmate, playfellow; tovarich
- familiar, familiar spirit - a spirit (usually in animal form) that acts as an assistant to a witch or wizard
--3 is a kind of spirit, disembodied spirit
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