acquainted
Having met before
Acquainted means familiar with someone or something through experience or introduction.
To be acquainted with a person is to know them, though not intimately: We're acquainted but not close friends.
To be acquainted with a subject is to have knowledge of it: Are you acquainted with the regulations?
To get acquainted is to become familiar: Let's get acquainted over coffee.
Given necessary knowledge
- consciousMentally present and alert
- mindfulConsciously attentive
- apprisedGave pertinent information
- briefedGiven essential information
notified · advised · versed · conversant · knowledgeable · enlightened · alert · attuned
Gathering for discussion
- greetingExpression of welcome
- introductionPreliminary section or presentation
- handshakeMutual palm-gripping gesture
- networkingBuilding professional relationships
icebreaker · mingling · socializing · encounter · reception · orientation · welcome · newcomer
informed
Given necessary knowledge
briefed · notified · advised · versed · conversant · knowledgeable · enlightened · alert · attuned · up-to-date
meeting
Gathering for discussion
- greetingExpression of welcome
- introductionPreliminary section or presentation
- handshakeMutual palm-gripping gesture
networking · icebreaker · mingling · socializing · encounter · reception · orientation · welcome · newcomer · stranger
friendly
Showing kindness, warmth
amicable · companionable · congenial · warm · neighborly · collegial · chummy · affable · genial · sociable
- familiarityfamiliar, unfamiliar, known, unknown, stranger
- skill levelsbeginner, novice, intermediate, expert, advanced
acquaintedunacquainted
Not knowing someone
strangers · unfamiliar · unknown · unintroduced · unmet
acquaintedunfamiliar
Not previously known
unacquainted · ignorant · unaware · uninformed · unknowing
- nodding acquaintanceMinimal social connection
- casual acquaintance
- renew acquaintancesResume lapsed social ties
- acquaintance rapeSexual assault by someone familiar
- make someone's acquaintanceBe formally introduced
- chance acquaintanceSomeone met coincidentally
acquaintance, acquaint, unacquainted, acquainting, acquaintances, acquaintanceship, reacquainted, reacquaint, reacquainting