Familiar vs Bona_fide - What's the difference?
familiar | bona_fide | Related terms |
Known to one.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-20, volume=408, issue=8845, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= Acquainted.
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=20 Intimate or friendly.
* Shakespeare
Inappropriately intimate or friendly.
Of or pertaining to a family; familial.
* Byron
(obsolete) A member of one's family or household.
(obsolete) A close friend.
*, II.i.4.2:
An attendant spirit, often in animal form.
In good faith.
Genuine; not counterfeit.
* 2000 ,
Familiar is a related term of bona_fide.
As adjectives the difference between familiar and bona_fide
is that familiar is familial while bona_fide is .familiar
English
Adjective
(en adjective)Welcome to the plastisphere, passage=Plastics are energy-rich substances, which is why many of them burn so readily. Any organism that could unlock and use that energy would do well in the Anthropocene. Terrestrial bacteria and fungi which can manage this trick are already familiar to experts in the field.}}
citation, passage=The story struck the depressingly familiar note with which true stories ring in the tried ears of experienced policemen. No one queried it. It was in the classic pattern of human weakness, mean and embarrassing and sad.}}
- Be thou familiar , but by no means vulgar.
- (Camden)
- familiar feuds
Synonyms
* (acquainted) acquainted * close, friendly, intimate, personal * (inappropriately intimate or friendly) cheeky, fresh, impudentAntonyms
* (known to one) unfamiliar, unknown * (acquainted) unacquainted * (intimate) cold, cool, distant, impersonal, standoffish, unfriendlyDerived terms
* overfamiliar * familiarity * familiarlyNoun
(en noun)- 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.
- The witch’s familiar was a black cat.
External links
* ----bona_fide
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Alternative forms
*Usage notes
The pronunciation , is the most common one in the USA and therefore listed first in American dictionaries, incl. American Heritage, Merriam-Webster, and the American versio of Collins.Webster's Third New International Dictionary, UnabridgedAdjective
(-)- Although he failed, the prime minister made a bona fide attempt to repair the nation's damaged economy.
- This is a bona fide Roman coin.
O Brother Where Art Thou?(movie):
- Ulysses Everett McGill: I am the only daddy you got! I’m the damn pater familias!
- Wharvey Gal: But you ain’t bona fide !
Usage notes
Sometimes misspelled as *bonafied,'' by incorrectly analyzing as the past tense of assumed *''bonafy .Bonafied / Bona Fide, Paul Brians