Familiar vs Traditional - What's the difference?
familiar | traditional | 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.
Of or pertaining to tradition; derived from tradition; communicated from ancestors to descendants by word only; transmitted from age to age without writing; as, traditional opinions; traditional customs; traditional expositions of the Scriptures.
Observant of tradition; attached to old customs; old-fashioned.
In lieu of the name of the composer of a piece of music, whose real name is lost in the mists of time.
Familiar is a related term of traditional.
As adjectives the difference between familiar and traditional
is that familiar is familial while traditional is of or pertaining to tradition; derived from tradition; communicated from ancestors to descendants by word only; transmitted from age to age without writing; as, traditional opinions; traditional customs; traditional expositions of the scriptures.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
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English
Adjective
(en adjective)- I think her traditional values are antiquated .
