Familiar

Adjective

 * 1) Known to one.
 * There’s a familiar face.
 * 1) Acquainted.
 * I'm not familiar with this system.
 * 1) Intimate or friendly.
 * We are not on familiar terms.
 * 1) Inappropriately intimate or friendly.
 * Don’t be familiar with me, boy!
 * 1) Of or pertaining to a family; familial.

Noun

 * 1)  A member of one's family or household.
 * 2)  A close friend.
 * 3) * 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, II.i.4.2:
 * a friend of mine, that finding a receipt in Brassavola, would needs take hellebore in substance, and try it on his own person; but had not some of his familiars come to visit him by chance, he had by his indiscretion hazarded himself; many such I have observed.
 * 1) An attendant spirit often in animal form.
 * The witch’s familiar was a black cat.

Adverbs for Familiar
thoroughly; intimately; wholly; cordially; affably; unceremoniously; informally; heartily; conversantly; entirely; highly; accessibly; courteously; perfectly; completely; habitually; wontedly; long; companionably; chattily; sociably; suavely; blandly; graciously; tactfully; genially; openly; publicly; avowedly; remarkably; undoubtedly; somewhat.

Synonyms for Familiar

 * acquainted
 * close, friendly, intimate, personal
 * cheeky, fresh, impudent
 * well-known, proverbial, informed, common, customary, usual, informal, comfortable, unconstrained, unreserved, accessible, easy, approachable, casual, presuming, disrespectful.

Antonyms for Familiar

 * unfamiliar, unknown
 * unacquainted
 * cold, cool, distant, impersonal, standoffish, unfriendly
 * strange, new, foreign, formal, reserved, stiff, respectful, ceremonious, unapproachable, constrained.

Derived terms

 * Category:English words derived from: familiar
 * overfamiliar
 * familiarity

Thesaurus
Bohemian, abreast, accepted, accustomed, acquaintance, acquainted, acquainted with, advocate, affable, alter ego, amicable, amigo, ancestral spirits, angel, arrogant, attendant godling, au courant, au fait, audacious, average, aware, back-number, backer, banal, best friend, bewhiskered, bold, boon, bosom friend, bromidic, brother, buddy-buddy, bumptious, casual, casual acquaintance, chatty, chummy, close, close acquaintance, close friend, cognizant, cold, colloquial, comfortable, common, commonly known, commonplace, confidant, confidante, confidential, conformable, conscious, consuetudinary, control, contumelious, conventional, conversant, conversant with, conversational, cool, cordial, corny, cozy, current, customary, cut-and-dried, daemon, degage, demon, disdainful, disrespectful, easy, easygoing, established, everyday, fade, fairy godmother, familiar spirit, familiar with, favorer, fellow, fellow creature, fellowman, folksy, forward, free, free and easy, frequent, fresh, friend, friendly, fusty, generally accepted, genial, genius, genius domus, genius loci, good angel, good genius, gracious, guardian, guardian angel, guardian spirit, guide, habitual, hackney, hackneyed, hand and glove, hand-in-hand, haymish, homely, homey, household, household gods, hubristic, impertinent, impudent, informal, informed, informed of, inseparable, inseparable friend, insolent, insulting, intimate, intrusive, invisible helper, irregular, lares and penates, lares compitales, lares familiaris, lares permarini, lares praestites, lares viales, loose, lover, manes, mate, mindful, ministering angel, moth-eaten, musty, natural, near, neighbor, neighborly, no stranger to, nonstandard, normal, normative, notorious, numen, obtaining, obtrusive, offhand, offhanded, officious, old hat, ordinary, other self, overpresumptuous, overweening, palsy-walsy, partisan, penates, pickup, plain, platitudinous, popular, predominating, prescribed, prescriptive, presuming, presumptuous, prevailing, prevalent, privy to, procacious, prosaic, proverbial, public, pushy, received, regular, regulation, relaxed, repository, routine, set, simple, snug, sociable, social, special providence, spoken, square, stale, standard, stereotyped, stock, substandard, supporter, sympathizer, talked-about, talked-of, tete-a-tete, thick, thick as thieves, threadbare, time-honored, timeworn, totem, traditional, trite, truistic, tutelar god, tutelary, unaffected, unassuming, unceremonious, unconstrained, unconventional, uneducated, universal, universally admitted, universally recognized, unliterary, unofficial, unoriginal, unreserved, unrestrained, unstudied, up, up on, uppish, uppity, usual, vernacular, versed, warmed-over, well-kenned, well-known, well-recognized, well-understood, well-wisher, well-worn, widely known, widespread, wonted, worn, worn thin

Adjective

 * Armenian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 熟悉
 * Danish: bekendt
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 * Greek: εξοικειωμένος (eksoikeioménos)
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 * Kurmanji: aşna, şareza, pispor, zana
 * Sorani: شاره‌زا
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 * Dutch: familiair
 * Finnish: liian tuttavallinen


 * Polish: poufały
 * Russian: фамильярный

Noun

 * Finnish: apuolento, apuhenki
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 使い魔 (つかいま, tsukaima)


 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: espírito familiar,
 * Spanish: espíritu familiar,

Noun

 * 1) familiar (as opposed to formal)

Adjective

 * 1) of family
 * 2) close, familiar
 * 3) daily, plain

Noun

 * 1) relative

Related terms

 * familia
 * familiaridad
 * familiarizar