intimate
Pronunciation: /ˈɪn.tɪ.mət/
The English word “intimate” has 10 meanings listed here.
adjective
- Closely acquainted; familiar.
- Personal; private.
- Pertaining to sex organs or underwear.
- Pertaining to sexual acts or a sexual relationship.
- Pertaining to details that require great familiarity to know.
- Very finely mixed.
noun
verb
- To suggest or disclose (something) discreetly.
- To notify.
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin intimātus, the perfect passive participle of intimō (“to put or bring into, to impress, to make familiar”) (see -ate (adjective forming suffix)), from intimus (“inmost, innermost, most intimate”), superlative of intus (“within”), from in (“in”); see interior.
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