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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Intimate \In"ti*mate\, a. [Formerly intime, L. intimus, a superl. corresponding to the compar. interior: cf. F. intime. The form intimate is due to confusion with intimate, v. t. See Interior.]
Innermost; inward; internal; deep-seated; hearty. ``I knew from intimate impulse.''
--Milton.-
Near; close; direct; thorough; complete.
He was honored with an intimate and immediate admission.
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Close in friendship or acquaintance; familiar; confidential; as, an intimate friend.
Syn: Familiar; near; friendly; confidential.
Intimate \In"ti*mate\, n.
An intimate friend or associate; a confidant.
--Gov. of the
Tongue.
Intimate \In"ti*mate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Intimated; p. pr. & vb. n. Intimating.] [L. intimatus, p. p. of intimare to put, bring, drive, or press into, to announce, make known, from intimus the inmost. See Intimate, a.]
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To announce; to declare; to publish; to communicate; to make known. [Obs.]
He, incontinent, did proclaim and intimate open war.
--E. Hall.So both conspiring 'gan to intimate Each other's grief.
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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.
--Locke.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1630s, "closely acquainted, very familiar," from Late Latin intimatus, past participle of intimare "make known, announce, impress," from Latin intimus "inmost" (adj.), "close friend" (n.), superlative of in "in" (see in- (2)). Used euphemistically in reference to women's underwear from 1904. Related: Intimately.
"suggest indirectly," 1530s, back-formation from intimation, or else from Late Latin intimatus, past participle of intimare. Related: Intimated; intimating.
1650s, "person with whom one is intimate," from intimate (adj.).
Wiktionary
1 close acquainted; familiar. 2 Of or involved in a sexual relationship. 3 personal; private. n. 1 A very close friend. 2 (''in plural'' '''intimates''') Women's underwear, sleepwear, or lingerie, especially offered for sale in a store. v
(context transitive English) To suggest or disclose discreetly.
WordNet
adj. marked by close aquaintance, association, or familiarity; "intimate friend"; "intimate relations between economics, politics, and legal principles" - V.L. Parrington
having or fostering a warm or friendly atmosphere; especially through smallness and informality; "had a cozy chat"; "a relaxed informal manner"; "an intimate cocktail lounge"; "the small room was cozy and intimate" [syn: cozy, informal]
having mutual interests or affections; of established friendship; "on familiar terms"; "pretending she is on an intimate footing with those she slanders" [syn: familiar]
involved in a sexual relationship; "the intimate (or sexual) relations between husband and wife"; "she had been intimate with many men" [syn: sexual]
innermost or essential; "the inner logic of Cubism"; "the internal contradictions of the theory"; "the intimate structure of matter" [syn: inner, internal]
thoroughly acquainted with through study or experience; "this girl, so intimate with nature"-W.H.Hudson; "knowledgeaIble about the technique of painting"- Herbert Read [syn: intimate with, knowledgeable, knowledgeable about(p)]
Wikipedia
Intimate may refer to:
- Intimate examination, a physical examination for medical purposes that includes examination of the breasts, genitalia, or rectum of a patient
- Intimate ion pair, the interactions between a cation, anion and surrounding solvent molecules
- Intimate media, media artifacts created and collected to capture and commemorate aspects of family and intimate relationships
- Intimate part, a place on the human body which it is usually customary to keep covered with clothing in public areas
- Intimate relationship, a particularly close interpersonal relationship
Intimate is a 1999 album by Smokey Robinson. It was his first release in over seven years and marked his return to Motown Records. A recurring theme in the album, as with many of Robinson's songs, is love. Robinson explains, "If you write about dances, cars or political situations, sooner or later, you material sounds passé, dated...[Love] never goes out of style."
Robinson earned a Grammy nomination for Best Traditional R&B Vocal Performance on the album.
Intimate (also known by its full title Toni Pearen's Intimate Album) is the debut album by Australian actress and singer Toni Pearen. Recorded throughout 1992 to 1993 and released in 1994, the album spawned two top ten singles and a third top forty single. At the time her music career commenced, Pearen had been a popular cast member of the Australian drama series E Street. She was one of many Australian actresses who ventured into a music career, following the success of Kylie Minogue as well as Dannii Minogue, Natalie Imbruglia and also Pearen's E Street co-star Melissa Tkautz, who scored a successful number one hit as well as other popular songs in the early '90s.
Four singles were released from Intimate. The first single " In Your Room", peaked at number ten on the ARIA Charts in January 1993. The second single " I Want You" also peaked at number ten, in May 1993. A third single, " Walkaway Lover", was released in October 1994, peaking at number thirty-five in December. The fourth and final single " Joy" was released in March 1995 and peaked at number seventy-one during the same month. The album itself peaked at number fifty-six on its debut on the ARIA Albums Chart dated week ending 11 December 1994.
So far, this is the only album released by Pearen as she later became a television personality. She did however contribute some songs to the soundtrack of the 1995 film All Men Are Liars, which she also starred in.
"I Want You" was nominated for the ARIA Award for Best Pop Release in 1994.
Usage examples of "intimate".
You needed the joining of flesh and magic in a major intimate way to be beyond the point of safety.
It would be awkward, perhaps ruinous, if Anglesey learned of this most intimate peering.
The lecture hall was a classic seventeenth-century aula resembling the theatres and opera houses of that period: , 136 chaste, intimate, and with perfect acoustics.
In 1892 he was appointed agent to the governor-general in Baluchistan, in succession to Sir Robert Sandeman, his intimate experience of the Baluchis, gained during his railway work, having specially fitted him for this post.
In the course of his trade to India, he had formed very intimate connections with the Saracens and the Blemmyes, whose situation on either coast of the Red Sea gave them an easy introduction into the Upper Egypt.
In the early spring of 1919, when Hungary was being invaded by Czecho-Slovak troops, Italians and Rumanians, and was threatened with an invasion from the Allies Count Karolyi fled and the government fell into the hands of the radical Socialist, Bela Kun, who soon established intimate relations with the Bolshevist government at Moscow.
The baring of the five beautiful bottoms followed by intimate inspection of the naked cheeks.
He knew, by a little reflection, that this must be cattle country, for the brakie had intimated as much in their talk just before dusk.
Despite her suffering, poor Maude, recognizing the shameless display she had just made of herself, clapped her left palm over the intimate hollow to hide it from him, and was promptly rewarded with another magisterial stroke of the rod, this one switching fiercely across the broadest, most resilient curves of both her bottomcheeks.
Mr Wharton had declared calumniously more than once to an intimate friend,--had not an H in his vocabulary.
Only William Cecil, her longtime advisor, was sure enough of his welcome to interrupt the intimate talk between the two childhood friends.
Familiar faces hove into view, some known personally, some known at the intimate remove of modern celebrityhood, local media types tanned and satisfied, a sprinkling of higher-magnitude stars down from the mountain in Aspen, the socialite grouper fish, the trolling politicos, and the renowned and endowed from the glamorous world of adult entertainment, all the well-connected folk you could ever hope to rig a hot wire to.
Chemistry and Physics only deal with them as exhibiting statistical complexes of the effects of their more intimate laws.
Conde, which, however, upon Anglo-Saxon tongues, had been promptly modified to Condy, or even, among his familiar and intimate friends, to Conny.
With his sister alone had he remained intimate, and it was a secret plan of his that she, who loved music, unlike himself, and could play movingly on the violin, should be sent next year to study at the Conservatorium, despite the great expense that would entail, which must be made up in some other way.