Intimate

/ˈɪn.tɪ.mət/ · adjective

Meaning

Closely acquainted; familiar..

Definitions by Sense

1. Closely acquainted; familiar.
2. Personal; private.
3. (euphemistic) Pertaining to sex organs or underwear.
4. (euphemistic) Pertaining to sexual acts or a sexual relationship.
5. Pertaining to details that require great familiarity to know.
6. Very finely mixed.
7. A very close friend.
8. (in the plural intimates) Women's underwear, sleepwear, or lingerie, especially offered for sale in a store.

Example Sentences

an intimate friend

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

an intimate setting

Intimate apparel departments have separate sections for bras and panties; within those sections, our intimate apparel firm would have its bras displayed separately from its panties.

She enjoyed some intimate time alone with her husband.

The man, who had been arrested for being intimate with a donkey, admitted the conduct in question but claimed that the donkey had not been a donkey when he met her at a nightclub last Saturday night, but rather a prostitute.

The candidate showed an intimate knowledge of the inner workings of politics.

Grélard et al.⁸⁷ determined the intimate structure of pseudoviral particles of hepatitis B subvirus using solid-state NMR, light scattering, and cryo-electron microscopy.

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Word Forms

• more intimate
• most intimate
• intimates
• intimating
• intimated

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