The Only Use of
acquaint
in
Flowers for Algernon -- Short Story
- How was I to know that a highly respected psychoexperimentalist like Nemur was unacquainted with Hindustani and Chinese?
p. 14.2unacquainted = not familiarstandard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unacquainted means not and reverses the meaning of acquainted. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
Definition:
to cause to know; or to cause to be familiar with