acquaintance
nounHow many syllables in acquaintance?
There are 3 syllables in the word acquaintance.How to pronounce acquaintance:
Definition of acquaintance:
- acquaintance (noun):
- the state of being acquainted
- a person whom one knows slightly
- personal knowledge or information about someone or something.
Synonyms for acquaintance:
acquaintanceship
association
conversance
conversancy
experience
familiarity
friend
introduction
involvement
Antonyms for acquaintance:
adversary
alter ego
amigo
antagonist
archenemy
associate
best friend
bezzie
buddy
butty
china
chum
close associate
close friend
cobber
compadre
companion
competition
competitor
comrade
confidant
confidante
constant companion
contender
corrival
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Here are some other common 3-syllable words.
- astounded
- assuage
- secular
- stunningly
- lovable
- acquiesce
- exclaiming
- genuinely
- painfully
- proudest
- pleasantries
- sheepishly
- mindlessly
- serenely
- merciful
- hierarchal
- fraudulence
- rivulet
- rapier
- double-u
- famously
- plausibly
- lighthearted
- sensibly
- nonetheless
- diminish
- verbalize
- chronicles
- ennoble
- abruptness
- mannequin
- audibly
- tenuous
- critiqued
- obscenely
- devoutly
- debacle
- satiates
- unflinching
- pitying
- overripe
- insolent
- designate
- abutting
- pompously
- seasonal
- complaisant
- surfeiting
- venerates
- allaying
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