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Definition of Intimate

Intimate

  1. Innermost; inward; internal; deep-seated; hearty.
  2. Near; close; direct; thorough; complete.
  3. Close in friendship or acquaintance; familiar; confidential; as, an intimate friend.
  4. An intimate friend or associate; a confidant.
  5. To announce; to declare; to publish; to communicate; to make known.
  6. 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.

Intimate Quotations

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

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

There's no other company that could make a MacBook Air and the reason is that not only do we control the hardware, but we control the operating system. And it is the intimate interaction between the operating system and the hardware that allows us to do that. There is no intimate interaction between Windows and a Dell notebook.
Steve Jobs

To be intimate with a married man, when my own father cheated on my mother, is not something I could forgive. I could not look at myself in the morning if I did that. I wouldn't be attracted to a man who would cheat on his wife.
Angelina Jolie

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