intimate
marked by close acquaintance, association, or familiarity
How often you will meet it
Rank 2,745 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 6,044 times across 155,370 chapters — 0.003% of every word in the library.
What it means
adjective
- marked by close acquaintance, association, or familiarity intimate friendintimate relations between economics, politics, and legal principles
- concerning things deeply private and personal also: private intimate correspondenceprivate family matters
- having or fostering a warm or friendly and informal atmosphere also: cozy, informal had a cozy chata relaxed informal manner
- having mutual interests or affections; of established friendship also: familiar on familiar termspretending she is on an intimate footing with those she slanders
- used euphemistically to refer to the genitals he touched her intimate parts
- involved in a sexual relationship also: sexual the intimate (or sexual) relations between husband and wifeshe had been intimate with many men
intimate in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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Oh hopes of love that intimate redress, Yet prove the load-stars unto bad betide!
Elizabethan Sonnet Cycles: Phillis - Licia · Martha Foote [Editor] Crow · Chapter 1
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The most intimate friends of the family were ignorant of its most painful sores.
Other People's Money · Emile Gaboriau · Chapter 1
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Even to his intimate friend and assistant, Dr. Laidlaw, he vouchsafed no word of true explanation or lament.
Four Weird Tales · Algernon Blackwood · Chapter 2
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Soon the tempter at Mainwaring's heart gave signification to these praises, soon this adventurer became his most intimate friend.
Lucretia — Volume 06 · Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron Lytton · Chapter 1
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His father had never spoken to him so; never before, perhaps, had he said anything as intimate to any of his sons.
The Courage of the Commonplace · Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews · Chapter 1