intimate

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Pronunciation

• enPR: ĭn'tĭmət, IPA: /ˈɪn.tɪ.mət/
• enPR: ĭn'tĭmāt, IPA: /ˈɪn.tɪ.meɪt/

Adjective

intimate

1. Closely acquainted; familiar.

   an intimate friend

   He and his sister deeply valued their intimate relationship as they didn't have much else to live for.

2. Of or involved in a sexual relationship.

   She enjoyed some intimate time alone with her husband.

3. Personal; private.

   an intimate setting

4. Pertaining to details that require great familiarity to know.

Translations

• French: intime
• German: vertraut, innig
• Italian: stretto, intimo
• Portuguese: íntimo
• Russian: бли́зкий
• Spanish: íntimo

Translations

• French: intime
• German: intim
• Italian: intimo
• Portuguese: íntimo
• Russian: инти́мный

Translations

• Italian: privato, proprio, personale
• Portuguese: íntimo, pessoal
• Russian: ли́чный
• Spanish: íntimo

Noun

intimate (plural intimates)

1. A very close friend.

   Only a couple of intimates had ever read his writing.

2. (in plural intimates) Women's underwear, sleepwear, or lingerie, especially offered for sale in a store.

   You'll find bras and panties in the women's intimates section upstairs.

Synonyms

• (close friend) bosom buddy, bosom friend, cater-cousin

Translations

• Italian: amico per la pelle
• Portuguese: íntimo

Translations

• Italian: biancheria intima

Verb

intimate (intimates, present participle intimating; past and past participle intimated)

1. (ambitransitive) To suggest or disclose (something) discreetly.

   •     The Kaiser beamed. Von Bulow had praised him. Von Bulow had exalted him and humbled himself. The Kaiser could forgive anything after that. "Haven't I always told you," he exclaimed with enthusiasm, "that we complete one another famously? We should stick together, and we will!"
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         Von Bulow saved himself in time—but, canny diplomat that he was, he nevertheless had made one error: he should have begun by talking about his own shortcomings and Wilhelm's superiority—not by intimating that the Kaiser was a half-wit in need of a guardian.

   He intimated that we should leave before the argument escalated.
2. (transitive, India) To notify.

   I will intimate you when the details are available.

Translations

• German: vorsichtig andeuten
• Russian: намекать

Related terms

• intimacy
• intimation

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