intimate

Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: B1 — Intermediate

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Definition

  1. noun someone to whom private matters are confided
  2. verb give to understand
  3. verb imply as a possibility

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin intimātus, the perfect passive participle of intimō (“to put or bring into, to impress, to make familiar”) (see -ate (adjective forming suffix)), from intimus (“inmost, innermost, most intimate”), superlative of intus (“within”), from in (“in”); see interior.

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Synonyms

confidant

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