intimate
15
5.8
- adjective
- /ˈɪntɪmət/
:
profundo
- So there's an intimate connection that's been studied scientifically between conscious experience and mathematics.
- intimate knowledge
- intimate familiarity
- intimate understanding
You are deeply, deeply familiar and intimate with Colombia and its people.
- You are deeply, deeply familiar and intimate with Colombia and its people.
- You've got to have an intimate knowledge of your marketplace.
- That means you can be very, very, you can be very intimate with the world of your thoughts.
- It's historic, historic, high stakes testimony in Congress from someone with intimate knowledge of Trump's criminal wrongdoing.
Examples
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Would you be able to describe it in intimate detail?
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As dealmakers, multimedia lawyers need intimate knowledge of how diverse parties see the world.
Academic text (1994) -
And the first step is something that we all have evidence for from our own intimate experience.
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You have this intimate knowledge of these materials and how it plays with the body.
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Their combined presence and intimate knowledge of each other is very significant.
Academic text (2008) -
Administrators have an intimate and working knowledge of the selection process.
Academic text (1996) -
Kerr commented that each physician had intimate knowledge of the community, allowing for a "personal touch."
Academic text (2013) -
Like her father, Woolf was an inveterate walker and had an intimate understanding of London on foot.
Academic text (1995) -
Yet through diligence and perseverance, plus a special, intimate knowledge of many Broadway personalities, it was only a question of time before she emerged a full-blown star.
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The researchers relied on their intimate knowledge of the subject to conduct the study effectively.
Synonyms
476
2.8
Knowing a place or subject well from experience
92
4.1
A person who has learned a lot about a subject
3
6.7
Knowing a lot about a subject because of study or practice
1
4.2
Known for a long time and easy to recognize
Comfortable and used to a place or job after some time
Compounds
How Familiar
Surface Forms
Etymology
Intimate comes from the Latin root intimus, meaning 'inmost' or 'within'. To be intimate with something is to know it 'inside out', so the word now means a deep, detailed, or thorough knowledge.