familial | (adjective) relating to or having the characteristics of a family | - |
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(adjective) occurring among members of a family usually by heredity | Synonyms: genetic, hereditary, inherited, transmissible, transmitted |
familiar | (adjective) well known or easily recognized | - |
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(adjective) within normal everyday experience; common and ordinary; not strange | - |
(adjective) having mutual interests or affections; of established friendship | Synonyms: intimate |
(adjective) (usually followed by `with') well informed about or knowing thoroughly | Synonyms: conversant |
(noun) a spirit (usually in animal form) that acts as an assistant to a witch or wizard | Synonyms: familiar spirit |
(noun) a person attached to the household of a high official (as a pope or bishop) who renders service in return for support | - |
(noun) a friend who is frequently in the company of another | Synonyms: associate, companion, comrade, fellow |
familiarisation | (noun) the experience of becoming familiar with something | Synonyms: familiarization |
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familiarise | (verb) make familiar or conversant with | Synonyms: acquaint, familiarize |
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familiarised | (adjective) having achieved a comfortable relation with your environment | Synonyms: adjusted, familiarized |
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familiarising | (adjective) serving to make familiar | Synonyms: familiarizing |
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familiarity | (noun) an act of undue intimacy | Synonyms: impropriety, indecorum, liberty |
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(noun) usualness by virtue of being familiar or well known | - |
(noun) close or warm friendship | Synonyms: closeness, intimacy |
(noun) a casual manner | Synonyms: casualness |
(noun) personal knowledge or information about someone or something | Synonyms: acquaintance, conversance, conversancy |
familiarization | (noun) the experience of becoming familiar with something | Synonyms: familiarisation |
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familiarize | (verb) make familiar or conversant with | Synonyms: acquaint, familiarise |
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familiarized | (adjective) having achieved a comfortable relation with your environment | Synonyms: adjusted, familiarised |
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familiarizing | (adjective) serving to make familiar | Synonyms: familiarising |
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familiarly | (adverb) in an intimately familiar manner | - |
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family | (noun) primary social group; parents and children | Synonyms: family unit |
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(noun) people descended from a common ancestor | Synonyms: family line, folk, kinfolk, kinsfolk, phratry, sept |
(noun) a social unit living together | Synonyms: home, house, household, menage |
(noun) (biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more genera | - |
(noun) a collection of things sharing a common attribute | Synonyms: category, class |
(noun) an association of people who share common beliefs or activities | Synonyms: fellowship |
(noun) a loose affiliation of gangsters in charge of organized criminal activities | Synonyms: crime syndicate, mob, syndicate |
(noun) a person having kinship with another or others | Synonyms: kin, kinsperson |
famine | (noun) a severe shortage of food (as through crop failure) resulting in violent hunger and starvation and death | - |
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(noun) an acute insufficiency | Synonyms: dearth, shortage |
famish | (verb) be hungry; go without food | Synonyms: hunger, starve |
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(verb) die of food deprivation | Synonyms: starve |
(verb) deprive of food | Synonyms: starve |
famished | (adjective) extremely hungry | Synonyms: esurient, ravenous, sharp-set, starved |
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famishment | (noun) a state of extreme hunger resulting from lack of essential nutrients over a prolonged period | Synonyms: starvation |
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