Intimate vs X - What's the difference?
intimate | x |
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.
* '>citation
The twenty-fourth letter of the .
Image:Latin X.png, Capital and lowercase versions of X , in normal and italic type
Image:Fraktur letter X.png, Uppercase and lowercase X in Fraktur
Roman numerals
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As an adjective intimate
is closely acquainted; familiar.As a noun intimate
is a very close friend.As a verb intimate
is to suggest or disclose discreetly.As a letter x is
the twenty-fourth letter of the.As a symbol x is
voiceless velar fricative.intimate
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.