Proximate vs Intimate - What's the difference?
proximate | intimate | Related terms |
Close or closest; adjacent.
* J. S. Harford
* T. Burnet
(legal) Immediately preceding or following in a chain of causation.
About to take place; impending.
(linguistics) A grammatical marker in the Algonquian (and some other) languages for a principal third person
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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Proximate is a related term of intimate.
As adjectives the difference between proximate and intimate
is that proximate is close or closest; adjacent while intimate is closely acquainted; familiar.As nouns the difference between proximate and intimate
is that proximate is (linguistics) a grammatical marker in the algonquian (and some other) languages for a principal third person while intimate is a very close friend.As a verb intimate is
to suggest or disclose discreetly.proximate
English
Adjective
(-)- proximate ancestors
- the proximate natural causes of it [the deluge]
Antonyms
* ultimateDerived terms
* proximate cause * proximatelyNoun
(en noun)See also
* obviativeExternal links
* * ----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.