Intimate

Definition: Intimate

Intimate

Adjective

1. Very close in friendship or affection; "a bosom buddy"; "an intimate friendship".

2. Showing profound and detailed knowledge and understanding as from long study; "an intimate knowledge of criminal law".

3. Indicating knowledge of personal details that only a close confidant could have; "an intimate biography"; "intimate details of their relationship".

4. 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".

5. Closely interconnected or interrelated; "the intimate relations...beween economics, politics, and legal principles"- V.L.Parrington.

6. Having mutual interests or affections; of established friendship; "on familiar terms"; "pretending she is on an intimate footing with those she slanders".

7. Involved in a sexual relationship; "the intimate (or sexual) relations between husband and wife"; "she had been intimate with many men".

8. Innermost or essential; "the inner logic of Cubism"; "the internal contradictions of the theory"; "the intimate structure of matter".

9. Thoroughly acquainted with through study or experience; "this girl, so intimate with nature"-W.H.Hudson; "knowledgeable about the technique of painting"- Herbert Read.

Noun

1. Someone to whom private matters are confided.

Verb

1. Give to understand.

2. Imply as a possibility; "The evidence suggests a need for more clarification".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "intimate" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references)

Synonyms: Intimate

Friend

Comrade, mate, companion, familiar, confrere, comrade, camarade, confidante, intimate; old crony, crony; chum; pal; buddy, bosom buddy; playfellow, playmate, childhood friend; bedfellow, bedmate; chamber fellow.

Friendship

Friends with, well with, at home with, hand in hand with; on good terms, on friendly terms, on amicable terms, on cordial terms, on familiar terms, on intimate terms, on good footing; on speaking terms, on visiting terms; in one's good graces, in one's good books.

Firm friendship, staunch friendship, intimate friendship, familiar friendship, bosom friendship, cordial friendship, tried friendship, devoted friendship, lasting friendship, fast friendship, sincere friendship, warm friendship, ardent friendship.

Acquainted, familiar, intimate, thick, hand and glove, hail fellow well met, free and easy; welcome.

Information

Let fall, mention, express, intimate, represent, communicate, make known; publish; notify, signify, specify, convey the knowledge of.

Nearness

Adjective: near, nigh; close at hand, near at hand; close, neighboring; bordering upon, contiguous, adjacent, adjoining; proximate, proximal; at hand, handy; near the mark, near run; home, intimate.

Crosswords: Intimate

All sorts of intimate acts, oral and whatnot (The Firm; writing credit: David Rabe)

You can't fool us, Vic. Not after sharing so many personal, intimate fantasies (Night Court; writing credit: Artur Makarov)

No, Lloyd, we shared the most intimate thing two people can share (Say Anything...; writing credit: Cameron Crowe)

With no magic, no special powers, forbidden from intimate contact, unrecognizable to those from their past lives, Chandler Smythe and Henry McNeil now fight to save lost souls against the minions of darkness (G vs E; writing credit: David Burris; Janice Engel)

They looked sort of intimate. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer)

Intimate questions (Wonder; performing artist: Natalie Merchant)

Intimate Reflections (1974)

The Intimate Stranger (1956)

Intimate Relations (1953)

Emmanuelle 2000: Intimate Encounters (2000)

Intimate Portrait: Lynda Carter (2000)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

References

• Intimate Brands Inc: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

  (more reference examples)

Books

• Intimate Issues: Conversations Woman to Woman: 21 Questions Christian Women Ask About Sex (reference)

• The Shadow Side of Intimate Relationships: What's Going on Behind the Scene (reference)

• Abba's Child: The Cry of the Heart for Intimate Belonging (reference)

• The Vital Touch: How Intimate Contact With Your Baby Leads to Happier, Healthier Development (reference)

• Sex & Celibacy: Establishing Balance in Intimate Relationships Through Temporary Sexual Abstinence (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• An Intimate Evening with Anne Murray (reference)

• Intimate Loving 4-Pack (reference)

• Paul McCartney - Wingspan - An Intimate Portrait (reference)

• Intimate Loving: Massage For Lovers (reference)

• Intimate Portrait: Bette Davis (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Intimate Conversations (reference)

• Romantic Classics: Intimate Moments (reference)

• Intimate Evening With Dave Mckenna (reference)

• Intimate Portrait [Enhanced CD] [EP] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Man watching man and woman in intimate embrace on bed. Credit: Library of Congress.

Mitchell Field. "Plumbing system" of a fighting plane. The rear end of an air-cooled aviation engine with cowling removed, showing fuel lines, ignition leads, instrument leads and other intimate portions of the anatomy of a mighty flying power plant. Credit: Library of Congress.

Filene's, business in North Shore Shopping Center, Peabody, Massachusetts. Intimate department. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Fraternal association requires not only the growing friendship and mutual understanding between our two vast but kindred systems of society, but the continuance of the intimate relationship between our military advisers, leading to common study of potential dangers, the similarity of weapons and manuals of instructions, and to the interchange of officers and cadets at technical colleges. ("Iron Curtain" Speech)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

To be on such intimate juggling relations with darkness is excellent for brigandage and admirable for the police

Tom was silent too, as though he had said too intimate a thing and was ashamed

It is something at once more intimate with us and more universal than any other work of art.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Direct person- to-person transmission by intimate respiratory and physical contact. (references)

Refrain from intimate contact with people who have respiratory infections such as colds or the flu and get a one-time pneumonia vaccination (polyvalent pneumococcal vaccination) and yearly influenza shots. (references)

Because males, especially older males, are particularly sensitive to the social support of intimate relationships, withdrawal from these relationships because of such fears may have a negative effect on their overall health. (references)

Economic History

Canada

This is very important for new-to-market companies, where an intimate knowledge of local business practices often makes the difference between success and failure. (references)

Women

Peru

In June 2000, the Government enacted legislation that expanded the definition of domestic violence to include sexual violence, and to include all intimate partners whether or not the victim and perpetrator have ever lived together. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "intimate": be intimate ♦ be intimate with ♦ be on intimate terms with smb. ♦ become intimate ♦ intimate friends ♦ intimate friendship ♦ intimate with ♦ the intimate nature of ♦ they became intimate. Additional references.

Beginning with "intimate": intimate-like, intimate-scaled, intimate-sounding.

Ending with "intimate": non-intimate, sardinely-intimate.

Afrikaans

innig (above-board, cardiac, close, cordial, hearty, sincere, warm). (various references)

Albanian

i ngushtë (acute, bigheaded, close, close-grained, hard up, incapacious, narrow, narrow minded, near, one track, one-ideaed, particularistic, petty, poky, provincial, small, small minded, Strait, tight), i brendshëm (domestic, esoteric, immanent, indoor, inland, inlying, inner, inside, interior, internal, intestine, intramural, intrinsic, inward, Midland, seamy), i afërt (adjacent, close, cognate, connate, connected, contiguous, homogeneous, imminent, impendent, impending, near, neighboring, neighbouring, next door, nigh, proximate, thick), aludoj, afërm (close, near, nearby, next, relations, relatives). (various references)

Arabic 

‏ودي (amiable, bluff, brotherly, cordial, fraternal, friendly, genial, good natured, heartfelt, hearty, kind, neighbor, neighborly, neighbour, neighbourly, nice, outgoing, pally, sexy, sympathetic, warm, well disposed), ‏حميمي, ‏حميم (bosom, chummy, close, crony, familiar, friendly, near, special, warm), ‏عاطفي (affectional, emotional, emotive, mawkish, moving, overwhelming, passional, passionate, rhapsodic, romantic, sentimental, sentimentalist, smoochy, sob, soft, soulful), ‏صميمي, ‏صرخ يلمع, ‏أنذر يعلن. (various references)

Bulgarian 

съществен (essential, formal, fundamental, integral, integrant, intrinsic, material, meaty, radical, substantial, substantive, underlying, vital), съкровен (inmost, inner, innermost), вътрешен (domestic, endo-, home, in, indoor, inland, inner, inside, interior, internal, intrinsic, inward, mediterranean, mental), обявявам (advertise, advertize, announce, bill, declare, meld, post, proclaim, promulgate, put up, vote), намеквам (allude, get at, hint, insinuate), задълбочен (depth, earnest, exhaustive, rapt, thoroughgoing), личен (finite, individual, particular, peculiar, personal, private, privy, subjective), близък приятел, проникновен (discerning), подмятам (dandle, imply, slip in, throw out, throw up, toss up), интимен (downstage, familiar, fireside, informal, inner, inofficial, keyhole, near, pally, personal, private, privy, tete a tete, thick), известявам (advertise, advertize, advise, apprise, apprize, notify, post, proclaim), дълбок (abysmal, abyssal, deep, dreamless, heavy, hollow, intense, penetrating, penetrative, profound, rooted, visceral), давам да се разбере (import, indicate, signify). (various references)

Chinese 

莫逆 (very friendly), 近乎 (close to), 親熱 (affectionate, warm-hearted), 親切 (amiable, close and dear, cordial, familiar, friendliness, gracious, hospitality, kind), 親 (closely related, dear, parent, parents-in-law of one's offspring, relation), 亲密, 密切 (close, familiar, frequent). (various references)

Czech

intimní, soukromý (executive, personal, private, removed), naznaèit (indicate, infer, suggest, throw out), dùvìrný (close, confidential, esoteric, familiar, hail-fellow-well-met, home, hush hush, off the record, private, restricted, sensitive), dùkladný (close, elaborate, firm, good, in depth, painstaking, particular, profound, sound, stout, strong, substantial, thorough, thoroughgoing). (various references)

Danish

intim (close). (various references)

Dutch

knus (close), intiem (close), innig (above-board, cardiac, close, cordial, hearty, sincere, warm), gezellig (close, homy). (various references)

Esperanto

intima (close). (various references)

Faeroese

inniligur (close), trúnaðar- (close). (various references)

Farsi 

محرم ساختن , محرم , معنی دادن (Denote, Intend, Mean, Signify), مطلبی رارساندن (Imply), گفتن (Bubble, Cite, Inform, Observe, Rehearse, Relate, Say, Tell, Utter, Utterance), صمیمی (Chum, Chummy, Cordial, Hailfellow, Heartfelt, Near, Privy, Real, Sincere, Unaffected, Warm), خودمانی (Familiar, Hailfellow, Hobnob, Homey, Insider, Pally, Tame, Unihibit, Unihibited). (various references)

Finnish

uskottu (confidant, confidante, trusted), tuttavallinen (familiar), rakas (beloved, dear), likeinen, läheinen (adjacent, close, near, nearby, near-by, next). (various references)

French

intime (inner, inward). (various references)

German

intim (close, familiar), vertraut (close, companionably, confides, conversant, conversantly, familiar, familiarly, Matey, near, trusts, well known), innig (close, dear, fond, heartfelt, hearty, lingering, profound), andeuten (block in, denote, hint, hint at, imply, indicate, infer, insinuate, point out, presage, show, signify, suggest, to hint, to suggest). (various references)

Greek 

έμπιστοσ (faithful, fiduciary, reliable, trusted, trustworthy, trusty), στενός (narrow, tight), πολύ στενόσ, υποδηλώνω (connote, hint, indicate, suggest), ενδόμυχοσ (inmost, inward), ενδόμυχος, οικείοσ (familiar), οικείος. (various references)

Hawaiian

afërm (close, near, nearby, next, relations, relatives). (various references)

Hebrew 

משפחתי (familial, familiar, family, homely), י�"י�"ותי (amiable, brotherly, friendly, homey, neighborly, neighbourly, pally, well disposed), לבבי (bluff, cordial, genial, heartfelt, hearty, open armed, warm), אי� טימי. (various references)

Hungarian

bizalmas (chummy, colloquial, confidant, confidante, confidential, counsellor, discrete, familiar, gossiping, internal, low down, near, private, shirt-sleeve, shirttail, thick, trusted). (various references)

Icelandic

náinn (close). (various references)

Indonesian

intim (heartfully, passionately), teman karib, manja (attached, friendly, spoiled), familier (accustomed), dakhil (inner life), akrab (chummy, close, devoted). (various references)

Italian

intimo (cosy, cozy, inner, near, quiet). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

親しい (close). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

したしい (close), なかがいい (close), なかむつまじい (harmonious), �"�"ろやすい (carefree, familiar, friendly), みっせつ (close, connected, related). (various references)

Korean 

친밀한 (Familiar). (various references)

Manx

mooar (big, bold, bold promintary, capacious, chief, commodious, difficult, extensive, extravagant, familiar, grand, great, grievous, heavy, hit off, hobnob, intense, loose-fitting, major, marked, powerful, tall), curtheet (friendliness), cur er fys da (apprise), caarjagh (conciliatory, cordial), ainjyssagh (acquaintance, acquainted, familiar). (various references)

Norwegian

intim (close), uformell (informal), fortrolig (familiar), antyde (hint, imply, infer, insinuate). (various references)

Papiamen

íntimo (close). (various references)

Pig Latin

intimateay.(various references)

Portuguese

íntimo (acquainted, chummy, confidential, depth, familiar, internal, near, offscreen, secret, thorough, warm). (various references)

Romanian

intim (close, cordial, familiar, friendly, heart-to-heart, hearty, home-felt, homelike, in, innermost, internal, inward, mutual, near, private), tainic (close, cover, covert, dark, hidden, inmost, inner, innermost, inside, isolated, mysterious, mysteriously, mystic, obscure, private, privy, quiet, secret, stealthy), sugera (hint, implicate, imply, prompt, propose, suggest), serios (appreciable, demure, earnest, earnestly, genuine, grave, gravely, grievously, important, in earnest, in good earnest, matronal, minded, reliable, sad, sedate, serious, serious minded, seriously, seriousness, severe, sober, solemn, solid, staid, steady, stern, valid, weighty, well-conducted), notifica (notify, serve), lãsa sã înţeleagã, familiar (colloquial, common, familiar, familiarly, home, homelike, unceremonious, unceremoniously, usual), de naturã intimã, comunica (acquaint, break the news, commune, communicate, convey, impart, inform, intercommunicate, tell), apropiat (close, congenial, fast, forthcoming, kindred, near), aprofundat (elaborate, thorough). (various references)

Russian 

внутренний (back-end, domestic, endo-, endogeneous, indoor, in-house, inland, inner, inner tube, innermost, inside, internal, interum, intestine, intrinsical, mediterranean), однородный (congeneric, congenerical, congenerous, connatural, homogeneous, indiscrete, uniform), намекать....близкий друг / близкий, интимный (familiar, heart-to-heart), извещать (advertise, advertize, apprise, apprize, aprise, notify, send word). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

intiman (become intimate, hail fellow, heart-to-heart, thick), prisan (cheek by jowl, close, confidential, fast, hail fellow, inner, strait), nagovestiti (bespeak, betoken, forebode, harbinger, hint, imply, indicate). (various references)

Spanish

íntimo (chummy, close, familiar, informal, near, particular, personal, private, thick). (various references)

Swedish

intim (close). (various references)

Turkish

ima etmek (adumbrate, allude to, give smb. to understand, hint at, imply, import, insinuate, mention, refer, shadow forth, shadow out, sign, suggest), ilişkisi olan, içli dışlı (be hand in glove, cheek by jowl, close, inly, without circumstance), yakın (adjacent, akin, akin to, approximate, at hand, by, close, close to, close-rage, connate, connected, connection, connexion, contiguous, convenient, familiar, handy, hard, hard by, immediate, imminent, inseparable, near, near at hand, nigh, not far, pending, proximate, relative, thick, within reach, within walking distance), özel (ad hoc, closet, distinctive, esoteric, especial, exclusive, express, extraordinary, individual, particular, peculiar, personal, private, privy, proper, proprietary, self, sole, special, specific, state, very), üstü kapalı söylemek (allude, hint), açıklamak (account, account for, account for smth., clarify, clear, clear up, declare, declassify, deliver oneself, develop, dilate, dot the i's, elucidate, enucleate, evidence, explain, explicate, expound, express, get across, give smth. publicity, impart, lay open, make smth. clear, plead, render, set up, show, show forth, spit out, state, unclose, unfold, unveil), bildirmek (acquaint, advise, affirm, announce, annunciate, communicate, declare, enunciate, give forth, give out, Herald, impart, indicate, inform, issue, let know, let smb. know, Lodge, notice, notify, offer, pass, proclaim, pronounce, put up, report, say, serve notice, signal, signalize, state, tell, vote), gizli (arcane, back door, blind, camera, clandestine, classified, closet, concealed, confidential, covert, cryptic, cryptical, crypto-, disguised, esoteric, furtive, hidden, hole-and-corner, hugger mugger, huggermugger, hush hush, inner, latent, masked, occult, perdu, Perdue, private, privy, quiet, restricted, sealed, secluded, secret, secretly, slinky, sneaking, sneakingly, sneaky, snug, stealthy, sub rosa, submerged, submersed, subterranean, subterraneous, surreptitious, ulterior, under cover, underarm, undercover, underground, underhand, underhanded, undisclosed, unsearchable, unseen), çıtlatmak (drop a hint, give a hint, give smb. to understand, hint, indicate, insinuate, spring), tam (absolute, accomplished, according to cocker, accurate, all out, at the time, bang, bang on, blank, clear, complete, consummate, correct, dead, desperately, downright, due, engrained, entire, even, exact, exactly, factual, full, full complement, fully, holo-, implicit, ingrained, intact, integral, just, literal, mathematical, on time, out and out, outright, overall, perfect, plenary, Plumb, plunk, precise, precisely, prize, prompt, proper, punctual, rank, right, rightdown, root and branch, round, sharp, sheer, simple, slap bang, slick, solid, spot-on, Square, stark, straight, strict, the very, thorough, thoroughgoing, to a t, true, trueborn, unalloyed, unambiguous, unmitigated, unredeemed, unreserved, utter, very, whole), yakın arkadaş (alter ego, boon companion, close friend, crony), kişisel (closet, individual, personal, private, self, singular), sıkı fıkı (cheek by jowl, chummy, close, hail-fellow-well-met), sırdaş (confidant, confidante, in the secret, repository, the initiated), samimi (candid, childlike, chummy, companionable, cordial, devout, earnest, familiar, folksy, forthright, Frank, free, freehearted, friendly, genuine, heartfelt, heart-to-heart, heart-whole, jannock, near, on the square, open armed, openhearted, outspoken, pally, sincere, single minded, single-eyed, single-hearted, truthful, undesigning, unequivocal, warm, whole-hearted), samimi dost, homojen (homogeneous, indiscrete). (various references)

Turkmen 

яьrekdeю (affectionate). (various references)

Ukrainian

інтимний (familiar, inner), натякати (allude, beat to drums, hint, imply, insinuate, nudge), заповітний (intern, occult, sacramental), близький друг (brother, familiar), близький (agnate, akin, allied, approximate, congenial, contiguous, familiar, near, nearby, neighbor, neighbour, nigh), побіжно згадувати. (various references)

Vietnamese 

thân tính, thân mật (amicable, chummy, conversant, cordial, friendly, hail-fellow, hail-fellow-well-met, heartily, hearty, intimately, matey, maty), riêng biệt; ấm cúng chung chăn chung gối; gian gâm, quen thuộc riêng tư, người thân, mật thiết. (various references)

familiaris, familiarum, insinuo, intimus, sociabilis, sodalem, sodales, sodalibus, sodalis, sodalium. (various references)

intimationem. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "intimate": intimated, intimately, intimateness, intimatenesses, intimater, intimaters, intimates. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Intimate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: antimate, Iltifat, inatimate, iniate, initmate, intaimate, intamate, intiamte, intiate, intibate, inticate, intifada, intigate, intimat, intimdate, intimist, intimiste, intimite, intmidate, untimate. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: imitate, intimae.

-2 letters: etamin, inmate, intima, intime, mattin, mitten, tamein, titian, titman, titmen.

-3 letters: ament, amine, anime, animi, entia, imine, matin, matte, meant, menta, minae, taint, tenia, tinea, titan.

-4 letters: amen, amie, amin, ante, anti, emit, etna, inia, inti, item, main, mane, mate, matt, mean, meat, meta, mien, mina, mine, mini, mint, mite, mitt.

+1 letter: impatient, intimated, intimater, intimates, ministate.

+2 letters: antiemetic, estimating, estimation, immittance, intimately, intimaters, intimidate, meditating, meditation, ministates, tiemannite.

+3 letters: antielitism, antiemetics, estimations, immanentist, immittances, impatiently, impetrating, impetration, interatomic, intimidated, intimidates, itemization, martensitic, maternities, meditations, mentalistic, mentalities, metafiction, metrication, mistreating, readmitting, semanticist, terminating, termination, terminative, testimonial, tiemannites, unmitigated.

+4 letters: actinometric, administrate, alimentation, anthelmintic, antielitisms, antifeminist, antimagnetic, antinepotism, delimitation, dilettantism, emotionalist, emotionality, immanentists, impetrations, infotainment, intermediate, intimateness, itemizations, legitimating, legitimation, mercantilist, metafictions, metrications, militantness, monetization, mutagenicity, nonimitative, pigmentation, pneumaticity, preadmitting, reestimating, remotivating, remotivation, semanticists, simultaneity, terminations, testimonials.