Familiar I Heard Face Looked Adjective Fəˈmɪliə(R Fəˈmɪliər

• to look/sound/seem familiar
• i couldn’t see any familiar faces in the room.
• he's a familiar figure in the neighbourhood.
• then she heard a familiar voice.

familiar

1. well known to you; often seen or heard and therefore easy to recognize
• OPPOSITE unfamiliar
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/unfamiliar
• to look/sound/seem familiar
• I couldn’t see any familiar faces in the room.
• He's a familiar figure in the neighbourhood.
• Then she heard a familiar voice.
• The cast contains a number of familiar names.
• The song was vaguely familiar.
• The smell is very familiar to everyone who lives near a bakery.
• Violent attacks are becoming all too familiar (= sadly familiar).

Extra Examples

• Her face looked strangely familiar.
• His face looked awfully familiar.
• His face was instantly familiar, even after all those years.
• The name sounded vaguely familiar to her.
• The place felt faintly familiar to me.
• The report's conclusions were already familiar enough to the government.
• The room looked distinctly familiar.
• a name that was somehow familiar
• a situation which has become all too familiar to most teachers
• The company's brand has become a familiar sight.
2. knowing something very well
• OPPOSITE unfamiliar
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/unfamiliar
• an area with which I had been familiar since childhood
• You will soon become familiar with the different activities.
• Are you familiar with the computer software they use?
• She would have been familiar with the work of this 18th-century German philosopher.
• Ishii is clearly intimately familiar with his script and characters.

Extra Examples

• You will need to be thoroughly familiar with our procedures.
• I'm not overly familiar with these issues.
• I was now getting much more familiar with the local area.
• By now you will be familiar with the one-way system in the centre of town.
3. very informal, sometimes in a way that is unpleasant
• You seem to be on very familiar terms with your tutor.
• After a few drinks her boss started getting too familiar for her liking.
• He was being overly familiar with Gloria.

Word Origin

• Middle English (in the sense ‘intimate’, ‘on a family footing’): from Old French familier, from Latin familiaris, from familia ‘household servants, family’, from famulus ‘servant’.