Intimate
Pronunciation
Adjective, noun- enPR: Än'tÄmÉ™t, IPA: /ˈɪn.tɪ.mÉ™t/
- enPR: Än'tÄmÄt, IPA: /ˈɪn.tɪ.meɪt/
Origin
From Latin intimare ("to put or bring into, to impress, to make familiar"), from intimus ("inmost, innermost, most intimate"), superlative of intus ("within"), from in ("in"); see interior.
Full definition of intimate
Adjective
intimate
Noun
intimate
(plural intimates)Synonyms
- (close friend) bosom buddy, bosom friend, cater-cousin
Verb
- (transitive) To suggest or disclose discreetly.
- 1936, Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends and Influence People Chapter Part 4, Chapter 3. TALK ABOUT YOUR OWN MISTAKES FIRST The Kaiser beamed. Von Bulow had praised him. Von Bulow had exalted him and humbled himself. The Kaiser could forgive anything after that. "Haven't I always told you," he exclaimed with enthusiasm, "that we complete one another famously? We should stick together, and we will!"
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Von Bulow saved himself in time—but, canny diplomat that he was, he nevertheless had made one error: he should have begun by talking about his own shortcomings and Wilhelm's superiority—not by intimating that the Kaiser was a half-wit in need of a guardian. - He intimated that we should leave before the argument escalated.