intimately
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4.6
- adverb
- /ˈɪntɪmətli/
:
íntimamente
- Waves and particles, at least when it came to light, were somehow intimately connected.
- intimately familiar
- know someone intimately
- intimately related
And now they're going to become more intimately connected with each other.
- And now they're going to become more intimately connected with each other.
- And for Hegel, language and thought are intimately connected with each other.
- The will and reason are intimately connected for Kant.
- They remembered that our struggles are intimately connected.
- I don't really know him intimately.
- And so even if that wasn't their autobiography, if it was their work, their words, you felt so intimately connected with that person.
- And then I talked to you guys and he's your friend that you knew intimately.
- I, I, I know this area intimately because I struggled with it for so much of my life.
- So stability and movement are, you know, intertwined very intimately.
- And then remember, they are intimately involved in the Syria and Iraq deployments.
- But what the point I want to make is that sleep and the immune system are intimately connected.
- You're going to be working with this person, an actual person very intimately for an extended period of time.
- But she speaks very intimately with us about the challenges that she's had as a mother.
- We are, our biology is intimately related to the day and night cycle on planet Earth.
- So I'm intimately familiar with vodka, with spirits, with working in bars and clubs.
Examples
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Yes, I certainly think faith and trust are intimately connected.
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So truth of belief is intimately connected with success in action.
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So the will to power is intimately connected with life.
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There were three dead people, and all three were intimately connected with this one woman.
Fiction book (1996) -
Race, in other words, remains a powerful social category, intimately connected to health.
Academic text (2011) -
We are, our biology is intimately related to the day and night cycle on planet Earth.
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The forced labor of some was intimately connected with the intellectual life of others.
Academic text (2017) -
During Freire's lifetime, popular education became intimately connected to a variety of social and revolutionary movements.
Academic text (2011) -
Because Native science is based on relationships rather than objectivity, ethics is naturally and intimately connected with it.
Academic text (2015) -
As a former long-haul truck driver, I am intimately familiar with this type of tire.
Synonyms
∞
1.0
Completely, showing strong knowledge or feeling
590
1.8
In a way that shows very strong feeling, for example sadness or respect
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1.0
Very near in place, time, or connection
Antonyms
How Close
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Intimately comes from the Latin word intimus, which means 'inmost' or 'deep inside', and the small part in- meaning 'in'; it is like the English word internal, which also means 'inside'. So, to know or be with someone intimately is to know them very deeply or to be very close to them.