Bedfellow vs Intimate - What's the difference?
bedfellow | intimate | Related terms |
One with whom one shares a bed.
* 1599 Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew , .
An associate, often an otherwise improbable one.
* 1873' ''They say that "misfortune makes men acquainted with strange '''bedfellows ". The old hereditary Whig Cabinet ministers must, no doubt, by this time have learned to feel themselves at home with strange neighbours at their elbows.'' — Anthony Trollope, ''Phineas Redux ,
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Closely acquainted; familiar.
Of or involved in a sexual relationship.
Personal; private.
A very close friend.
(in plural intimates ) Women's underwear, sleepwear, or lingerie, especially offered for sale in a store.
To suggest or disclose discreetly.
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Bedfellow is a related term of intimate.
As nouns the difference between bedfellow and intimate
is that bedfellow is one with whom one shares a bed while intimate is a very close friend.As an adjective intimate is
closely acquainted; familiar.As a verb intimate is
to suggest or disclose discreetly.bedfellow
English
Noun
(en noun)- ''Young budding virgin, fair and fresh and sweet,
- ''Whither away, or where is thy abode?
- ''Happy the parents of so fair a child;
- ''Happier the man whom favourable stars
- Allot thee for his lovely bed-fellow .
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Synonyms
* (one with whom one shares a bed) bedmateDerived terms
* strange bedfellowsintimate
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- an intimate friend
- He and his sister deeply valued their intimate relationship as they didn't have much else to live for.
- She enjoyed some intimate time alone with her husband.
- an intimate setting
Noun
(en noun)- Only a couple of intimates had ever read his writing.
- You'll find bras and panties in the women's intimates section upstairs.
Synonyms
* (close friend) bosom buddy, bosom friend, cater-cousinVerb
(intimat)- 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.