Thesaurus
familiar
Synonyms and Antonyms of familiar
- the little inside jokes that people who have long been familiar like to share
bosom, buddy-buddy, chummy, close, friendly, inseparable, intimate, thick, tight
- book editors who are familiar with what is being taught in the schools
at home, in the know
- The woman and her pair of Welsh corgis were a familiar sight in the quiet neighborhood.
a dime a dozen
- Rather too familiar for a first-time guest in our home, the woman kept asking how much we paid for this or for that.
arrogant, bumptious, complacent, conceited, egoistic (also egoistical), egomaniacal, egotistic (or egotistical), highfalutin (also hifalutin), high-and-mighty, high-hat, hoity-toity, important, overweening, pompous, prideful, proud, self-asserting, self-assertive, self-complacent, self-conceited, self-important, self-satisfied, smug, uppity, vain, vainglorious
cavalier, disdainful, haughty, lordly, pretentious, snobbish, stuck-up, supercilious, superior
audacious, bold-faced, brash, brassbound, brassy, brazen, cheeky, cocky, fresh, impertinent, impudent, insolent, overbold, pert, sassy, saucy
demure, down-to-earth, humble, lowly, meek, unassertive, unpretentious
Synonym Discussion of familiar
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- a common error
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- lacked common honesty
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- common manners
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- an ordinary pleasant summer day
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- a very ordinary sort of man
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- plain hard-working people
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- a familiar melody
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- a writer of popular romances
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- souvenirs designed to appeal to the vulgar taste
familiar
Synonyms and Antonyms of familiar
- A longtime familiar of the gym, she would most likely have been there on the day in question.
- With old familiars the normally reserved writer can be quite warm and funny.
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