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Intimate

adjective

1.

Marked by close acquaintance, association, or familiarity. "Intimate relations between economics, politics, and legal principles"

2.

Having or fostering a warm or friendly and informal atmosphere. Synonyms: cozy, informal. "A relaxed informal manner" , "An intimate cocktail lounge" , "The small room was cozy and intimate"

3.

Having mutual interests or affections; of established friendship. Synonym: familiar. "Pretending she is on an intimate footing with those she slanders"

4.

Involved in a sexual relationship. Synonym: sexual. "She had been intimate with many men" , "He touched her intimate parts"

5.

Innermost or essential. Synonyms: inner, internal. "The internal contradictions of the theory" , "The intimate structure of matter"

6.

Thoroughly acquainted through study or experience. Synonyms: knowledgeable, versed. "Knowledgeable about the technique of painting"

verb

(past & past part. intimated; pres. part. intimating)

1.

Give to understand. Synonyms: adumbrate, insinuate.

2.

Imply as a possibility. Synonym: suggest.

noun

1.

Someone to whom private matters are confided. Synonym: confidant.

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"Intimate" Quotes from Famous Books

... among the very best cliches (my own and others)—"supersubtle analysis," "intimate psychology," "masterly handling," "incomparable artistry"—I found nothing that it didn't seem a sort of impertinence to apply to JOSEPH CONRAD's Chance, which METHUEN has just had the good luck to publish. For the whole thing is much nearer wizardry than workmanship. I put the book down with ...

— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, January 28, 1914 • Various

... would not retire before ten, they might not before midnight, and the prospect was unpleasant. In a lull of the wind I could hear from the inside the voice of Flora reading aloud; the words of course inaudible—only a flow of undecipherable speech, quiet, cordial, colourless, more intimate and winning, more eloquent of her personality, but not less beautiful than song. And the next moment the clamour of a fresh squall broke out about the cottage; the voice was drowned in its bellowing, and I was glad to retreat ...

— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 20 (of 25) • Robert Louis Stevenson

... within them, a Breath of the Divine Life which every Christian knew: a Presence which brought strength and comfort, power and love and discipline, and bore fruits of love and joy and peace. Who or what was it? An influence from on high? Yes: but it seemed more intimate, more personal than any mere "influence," more indissolubly one with them, knitting them into a fellowship in which they were united with the Father and the Son. "Truly our fellowship is with the Father, and with ...

— Religious Reality • A.E.J. Rawlinson

... summer when she was fourteen, Priscilla Glenn knew less about the Far Hill people than she did about the inhabitants of heaven and hell, with whom her father was upon such intimate and familiar terms. ...

— The Place Beyond the Winds • Harriet T. Comstock

... Rubaiyat warn us of the danger of Greatness, the instability of Fortune, and while advocating Charity to all Men, recommending us to be too intimate with none. Attar makes Nizam-ul-Mulk use the very words of his friend Omar [Rub. xxviii.], "When Nizam-ul- Mulk was in the Agony (of Death) he said, 'Oh God! I am passing away in ...

— Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam • Omar Khayyam

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