Meanings
comparative more intimately · superlative most intimately
- In an intimate manner.
I have tried to find friends like me […] but have failed to form even one prolonged relationship. Only a few of them could understand how I felt and a couple of them allowed me to express my love as intimately and vigorously as I wanted to.
1980 August 9, anonymous author, “Inside Burning”, in Gay Community News, page 4Synonyms: inly
Synonyms & antonyms
adverbIn an intimate manner.
More synonyms by meaning
adverbwith great or especially intimate knowledge
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Englishintimate
- Proto-Indo-European*leyg-
- Proto-Germanic*līką
- Englishintimately
Translations
Bulgarian интимно, задушевно
- интимно (intimno)in an intimate manner
- задушевно (zaduševno)in an intimate manner
Catalan íntimament
- íntimamentin an intimate manner
Dutch intiem
- intiemin an intimate manner
Esperanto intime
- intimein an intimate manner
Finnish läheisesti, intiimisti
- läheisestiin an intimate manner
- intiimistiin an intimate manner
French intimement
- intimementin an intimate manner
Italian intimamente
- intimamentein an intimate manner
Polish intymnie
- intymniein an intimate manner
Portuguese intimamente
- intimamentein an intimate manner
Spanish íntimamente
- íntimamentein an intimate manner
Cite this entry
intimately. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/intimately
“intimately.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/intimately. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “intimately,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/intimately.
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