Definition of Intimate

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Intimate

Innermost; inward; internal; deep-seated; hearty.

Near; close; direct; thorough; complete.

Close in friendship or acquaintance; familiar; confidential; as, an intimate friend.

An intimate friend or associate; a confidant.

To announce; to declare; to publish; to communicate; to make known.

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.

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Intimate Quotations

Be polite to all, but intimate with few.
Thomas Jefferson

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
George Washington

Of all those in the army close to the commander none is more intimate than the secret agent; of all rewards none more liberal than those given to secret agents; of all matters none is more confidential than those relating to secret operations.
Sun Tzu

The psychoanalysis of neurotics has taught us to recognize the intimate connection between wetting the bed and the character trait of ambition.
Sigmund Freud

I have been black and blue in some spot, somewhere, almost all my life from too intimate contacts with my own furniture.
Frank Lloyd Wright

Family life is too intimate to be preserved by the spirit of justice. It can be sustained by a spirit of love which goes beyond justice.
Reinhold Niebuhr

The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
James A. Baldwin

The relationship between a manufacturer and his advertising agency is almost as intimate as the relationship between a patient and his doctor. Make sure that you can life happily with your prospective client before you accept his account.
David Ogilvy

My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.
Orson Welles

Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.
Nathaniel Hawthorne

Intimate Translations

intimate in Afrikaans is innig
intimate in Dutch is intiem, innig, gezellig, knus
intimate in French is intime
intimate in German is intim, bekanntgeben
intimate in Italian is intimo
intimate in Latin is insinuo, familiaris
intimate in Norwegian is antyde, fortrolig, uformell
intimate in Swedish is innerlig, intim

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