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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

... it interesting to become intimate with lighting, for it can serve him well. The housewife will often find much interest in making shades of textiles and of parchment. Charming glassware in appropriate tints and painted designs is available for all rooms. In the bedchamber and the nursery some of ...

— Artificial Light - Its Influence upon Civilization • M. Luckiesh

... answer; you were present when it was put into my hands. He informed me of his bad state of health, and conjured me, for my own sake, to inquire no farther into the nature of his connection with me, but to rest satisfied with his declaring it to be such and so intimate, that he designed to constitute me his heir. When I was preparing to leave Fairport to join him, a second express brought me word that he was no more. The possession of great wealth was unable to suppress the remorseful feelings with which I now regarded ...

— The Antiquary, Complete • Sir Walter Scott

... fundamental importance, we have valuable accounts of some parts of the life of Columbus by his friend Andres Bernaldez, the curate of Los Palacios near Seville.[398] Peter Martyr, of Anghiera, by Lago Maggiore, was an intimate friend of Columbus, and gives a good account of his voyages, besides mentioning him in sundry epistles.[399] Columbus himself, moreover, was such a voluminous writer that his contemporaries laughed about it. "God grant," says Zuniga in a letter to the Marquis ...

— The Discovery of America Vol. 1 (of 2) - with some account of Ancient America and the Spanish Conquest • John Fiske

... for a moment or so, then seized the plate in one hand, and the biscuits in another, and went in search of the Prince, breathing vile words anent "grub" and his intimate interior. He approached ...

— The War in the Air • Herbert George Wells

... upon them; human ears have listened to their appeals; human lips have opposed their suggestions and ridiculed their counsels; human hands have met them with insult and abuse. In the council hall and the court of justice, these heavenly messengers have shown an intimate acquaintance with human history; they have proved themselves better able to plead the cause of the oppressed than were their ablest and most eloquent defenders. They have defeated purposes and arrested evils that would have greatly retarded the work of God, and would have caused great suffering ...

— The Great Controversy Between Christ and Satan • Ellen G. White

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