FAMILIAR vs OVERFAMILIAR: NOUN
- A familiar friend; an intimate; a close companion; one long acquainted; one accustomed to another by free, unreserved converse.
- A spirit (usually in animal form) that acts as an assistant to a witch or wizard
- A person attached to the household of a high official (as a pope or bishop) who renders service in return for support
- A person who is frequently in the company of another
- A member of one's family or household.
- A confidential officer employed in the service of the tribunal, especially in apprehending and imprisoning the accused.
- An attendant demon or evil spirit.
- An officer of the Tribunal of the Inquisition who arrested persons accused or suspected. See inquisition.
- In the Roman Catholic Church, a member of the household of the pope or of a bishop, supported at his expense, and rendering him domestic, though not menial service. The familiar must live in the diocese of his superior.
- A familiar spirit; a demon or evil spirit supposed to attend at call. See familiar spirit, under I.
- A close friend or associate.
- An attendant spirit, often taking animal form.
- One who performs domestic service in the household of a high official.
- A person who frequents a place.
- An attendant spirit often in animal form.
- A close friend.
- An intimate; a companion.
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FAMILIAR vs OVERFAMILIAR: ADJECTIVE
- Characterized by, or exhibiting, the manner of an intimate friend; not formal; unconstrained; easy; accessible.
- Closely acquainted or intimate, as a friend or companion; well versed in, as any subject of study.
- Of or pertaining to a family; domestic.
- Well known; well understood; common; frequent.
- Familial.
- Taking undue liberties; presumptuous.
- Natural and unstudied; informal.
- Of established friendship; intimate.
- Having fair knowledge; acquainted.
- Often encountered or seen: : common.
- Within normal everyday experience; common and ordinary; not strange
- Well known or easily recognized
- Domesticated; tame. Used of animals.
- Having mutual interests or affections; of established friendship
- (usually followed by `with') well informed about or knowing thoroughly
- Of or pertaining to a family; familial.
- Inappropriately intimate or friendly.
- Intimate or friendly.
- A demon or evil spirit supposed to attend at call.
- Known to one.
- Improperly acquainted; wrongly intimate.
- Acquainted.
- So acquainted with something, that one doesn't notice it, or is annoyed by it
- Common or repeated to the point of being unnoticed or annoying
- Taking undue liberties; assuming an unwarranted tone of familiarity.
- Unduly forward or brash; offensively presumptuous.
- Exceedingly common or ordinary.
- Too familiar, as.
- Taking undue liberties
- Overly friendly or intimate
FAMILIAR vs OVERFAMILIAR: OTHER WORD TYPES
- Synonyms Close, intimate, amicable, fraternal, near.
- Well known from frequent observation, use, etc.; well understood.
- Having an intimate knowledge; well knowing; well acquainted; well versed (in a subject of study): as, he is familiar with the works of Horace.
- Characterized by ease or absence of stiffness or pedantry; unconstrained.
- Having a friendly aspect or manner; exhibiting the manner of an intimate friend; affable; not formal or distant; especially, using undue familiarity; intrusive; forward.
- Of established friendship
- Not strange
- Common and ordinary
- Having, or springing from, intimate and friendly social relations; closely intimate: as, a familiar friend; familiar companionship; to be on familiar terms with one.
- Pertaining to a family; domestic.
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FAMILIAR vs OVERFAMILIAR: RELATED WORDS
- Fellow, Forward, Associate, Informed, Old, Casual, Everyday, Usual, Informal, Intimate, Common, Close, Overfamiliar, Acquainted, Conversant
- Mirthless, Grand guignol, Overdetermined, Bathetic, Unaffecting, Overwrought, Overlong, Formulaic, Mawkish, Trite, Banal, Hackneyed, Melodramatic, Forward, Familiar
FAMILIAR vs OVERFAMILIAR: DESCRIBE WORDS
- Fellow, Forward, Associate, Informed, Old, Casual, Everyday, Usual, Informal, Intimate, Common, Close, Overfamiliar, Acquainted, Conversant
- Mirthless, Grand guignol, Overdetermined, Bathetic, Unaffecting, Overwrought, Overlong, Formulaic, Mawkish, Trite, Banal, Hackneyed, Melodramatic, Forward, Familiar
FAMILIAR vs OVERFAMILIAR: SENTENCE EXAMPLES
- Both groups should be familiar with those rights.
- Both parties should be familiar with state law.
- We have to become familiar with those patterns.
- All supervisors must be thoroughly familiar with firehazards.
- To make the unfamiliar familiar and the familiar unfamiliar by embedding differences within similarities and similarities within differences is good poetry.
- Those familiar with the legal system are more likely to sue, and physicians are very familiar with the system.
- You may be familiar with his family though you might not be familiar with him individually.
- Familiar names in the Collection tab of the Familiar System UI.
- The name is not familiar to me, but of his deeds I am familiar.
- It started to become familiar, almost too familiar.
- Prison officials say he became "overfamiliar with a staff member' and that the case is under investigation.
FAMILIAR vs OVERFAMILIAR: QUESTIONS
- What is a familiar drug in Toxicologic Emergencies?
- Do dogs prefer familiar words or mismatched speech?
- How familiar are millennials with the Marine Corps?
- Are you familiar with brunnera or Siberian bugloss?
- What are the complications of poliposis adenomatosa familiar?
- Will Street Pianos Become a familiar sight everywhere?
- What makes the Familiar Familiar and the Strange Strange?
- What is the familiar setting for the stories with familiar settings?
- Who coined the phrase the familiar now seems not so familiar?
- How does the familiar Quick Guide rate familiar forms?
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