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/ˈɪntəmət/ /ˈɪntəmˌeɪt/ /ˈɪnəmət/ Listen

adjective

Intimate adj.

Innermost; inward; internal; deep-seated; hearty. "I knew from intimate impulse."

Near; close; direct; thorough; complete. "He was honored with an intimate and immediate admission."

Close in friendship or acquaintance; familiar; confidential; as, an intimate friend.

Synonyms: Familiar; near; friendly; confidential.

verb

Intimate v. t. (past & past part. intimated; pres. part. intimating)

To announce; to declare; to publish; to communicate; to make known. (Obs.) "He, incontinent, did proclaim and intimate open war." "So both conspiring 'gan to intimate Each other's grief."

To suggest obscurely or indirectly; to refer to remotely; to give slight notice of; to hint; as, he intimated his intention of resigning his office. "The names of simple ideas and substances, with the abstract ideas in the mind, intimate some real existence, from which was derived their original pattern."

noun

Intimate n. An intimate friend or associate; a confidant.

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Etymology of 'Intimate'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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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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