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intimately

[in-tuh-mit]

adjective

associated in close personal relations: an intimate friend.

characterized by or involving warm friendship or a personally close or familiar association or feeling: an intimate greeting.

very private; closely personal: one's intimate affairs.

characterized by or suggesting privacy or intimacy; warmly cozy: an intimate little café.

(of an association, knowledge, understanding, etc.) arising from close personal connection or familiar experience.

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engaged in or characterized by sexual relations.

(of clothing) worn next to the skin, under street or outer garments: intimate apparel.

detailed; deep: a more intimate analysis.

showing a close union or combination of particles or elements: an intimate mixture.

10.

inmost; deep within.

11.

of, pertaining to, or characteristic of the inmost or essential nature; intrinsic: the intimate structure of an organism.

12.

of, pertaining to, or existing in the inmost depths of the mind: intimate beliefs.

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noun

13.

an intimate friend or associate, especially a confidant.

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Intimately is always a great word to know.

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a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare.

a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.

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Origin:
1600–10; < Latin intim(us) a close friend (noun use of the adj.; see intima) + -ate¹

Related forms

in·ti·mate·ly, adverb

in·ti·mate·ness, noun

Synonyms
1. dear. See familiar. 3. privy, secret. 8. exacting, thorough. 13. crony.

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World English Dictionary

intimate¹ (ˈɪntɪmɪt)

—*adj* (foll by with) (foll by with)
1.	characterized by a close or warm personal relationship: an intimate friend
2.	deeply personal, private, or secret
3.	euphemistic having sexual relations (with)
4.	a. having a deep or unusual knowledge (of)
	b. (of knowledge) deep; extensive
5.	having a friendly, warm, or informal atmosphere: an intimate nightclub
6.	of or relating to the essential part or nature of something; intrinsic
7.	denoting the informal second person of verbs and pronouns in French and other languages

—n
8.	a close friend

[C17: from Latin intimus very close friend, from (adj): innermost, deepest, from intus within]

'intimately¹

—*adv*

'intimateness¹

—n

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