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Definition of intimately in English: intimatelyadverb ˈɪntɪmətli 1In a way that involves detailed knowledge. everyone knew intimately what was going on as submodifier he is intimately familiar with her work Example sentencesExamples - He is intimately aware of how vulnerable people can be.
- He became intimately acquainted with the strengths and weaknesses of the world's "great buildings."
- He was appointed Queen's guide in 1963 and knows the sands intimately.
- At the start of the new millennium, the world's researchers became intimately acquainted with an insect no larger than a gnat.
- In Sri Lanka, he consulted the genius of a place whose climate and culture he knew intimately.
- It's vital the sales staff becomes intimately familiar with the artists' work.
- A seasoned survey veteran would have been intimately familiar with the facts of this translation process.
- After living for almost a decade on Minorca, he knows the island's landscape intimately.
- Residential architects get to know their clients much more intimately than do our commercial counterparts.
- His subjects are items from his experiences, items he knows, intimately at least by proximity.
- 1.1 In a way that involves a close link or relationship.
themes of love and death were intimately connected Example sentencesExamples - There is an engagement in this project between the cultural institution and the concept of the marketplace to which a commercial city like Melbourne is intimately associated.
- These stories tell the essential narratives of our lives, and they are intimately linked with art.
- Specialists had made significant progress in documenting Algeria's Roman heritage, a process intimately bound up with French imperial ambitions.
- Lewis's move toward abstraction was intimately bound up with a "crisis in relations between masculinity and representation."
- As well as embodying novelty and enchantment, the architecture of the spa reflected these intimately connected functions.
- All were intimately tied to the historic dead who were exhumed and venerated for the symbolism of their unique state of preservation.
- Naming Nguni cattle is a complex process that is intimately connected to Zulu oral history and poetry.
- Copper and the sea have always been intimately associated, and in Lisbon they are brought into crisp modern conjunction.
- What is shocking about her withdrawal is the rigor with which she rejected two intimately connected systems: patriarchy and capitalism.
- Architecture has become intimately related to development exploitation and inequity by an increasingly democratic society.
2In a private and personal way. the pair laughed and talked intimately Example sentencesExamples - Playwright, director, and cast make you believe every word so that you feel you know these people as intimately as your own family.
- The facts were often so transmogrified as to be unrecognizable except to the writer himself and to the people who knew him intimately.
- Opening the poem to contemporary reading and readers opens the context that, to Shelley's mind, he shared most intimately with Keats.
- The acting is peerless, and you feel as if you know every individual man intimately.
- I loved the man, I got to know him intimately, and he's now dead.
- He claimed to have learned "from several who knew him intimately" that the sensibility of Gray was even morbid.
- No one needed to see another movie where the villain and the cop know each other intimately.
- They produce a work that is at once ambiguous and, in its daring decisions, intimately personal.
- Internal evidence from the canon of Melville's writings suggests he knew Milton intimately and studied him closely.
- I look admiringly at the strangely worked beauty of his art while the two men talk intimately together.
- 2.1euphemistic In a sexual way.
a fear of being touched intimately Example sentencesExamples - While two of the kids intimately embrace, the third nonchalantly smokes a cigarette.
- He has described how he was intimately fondled by a prison doctor.
- She gradually abandoned her painting, only returning to it when she became intimately involved with Picasso.
- He set his eyes on her, intimately caressed her very being, and embroidered thoughts in her mind totally unlike herself.
- The cabbie admits he could not resist a swipe at a young passenger who, after groping his girlfriend rather intimately, offered the driver a cigarette.
- Teenagers who intimately kiss many different people almost quadruple their risk of developing meningitis, according to a study to be published today.
- They broke up early this year, soon after some pictures that showed him intimately hugging another woman were publicized.
- Apparently he noticed a young man intimately teasing his wife.
- She inevitably asked me if I had become intimately involved with anyone.
- It is very hard to concentrate whilst being held intimately in a man's arms.
Definition of intimately in US English: intimatelyadverbˈin(t)əmətlē 1In a way that involves detailed knowledge. everyone knew intimately what was going on as submodifier he is intimately familiar with her work Example sentencesExamples - In Sri Lanka, he consulted the genius of a place whose climate and culture he knew intimately.
- A seasoned survey veteran would have been intimately familiar with the facts of this translation process.
- He is intimately aware of how vulnerable people can be.
- At the start of the new millennium, the world's researchers became intimately acquainted with an insect no larger than a gnat.
- His subjects are items from his experiences, items he knows, intimately at least by proximity.
- It's vital the sales staff becomes intimately familiar with the artists' work.
- Residential architects get to know their clients much more intimately than do our commercial counterparts.
- After living for almost a decade on Minorca, he knows the island's landscape intimately.
- He became intimately acquainted with the strengths and weaknesses of the world's "great buildings."
- He was appointed Queen's guide in 1963 and knows the sands intimately.
- 1.1 In a way that involves a close link or relationship.
themes of love and death were intimately connected Example sentencesExamples - There is an engagement in this project between the cultural institution and the concept of the marketplace to which a commercial city like Melbourne is intimately associated.
- Architecture has become intimately related to development exploitation and inequity by an increasingly democratic society.
- All were intimately tied to the historic dead who were exhumed and venerated for the symbolism of their unique state of preservation.
- Naming Nguni cattle is a complex process that is intimately connected to Zulu oral history and poetry.
- Lewis's move toward abstraction was intimately bound up with a "crisis in relations between masculinity and representation."
- Specialists had made significant progress in documenting Algeria's Roman heritage, a process intimately bound up with French imperial ambitions.
- As well as embodying novelty and enchantment, the architecture of the spa reflected these intimately connected functions.
- These stories tell the essential narratives of our lives, and they are intimately linked with art.
- What is shocking about her withdrawal is the rigor with which she rejected two intimately connected systems: patriarchy and capitalism.
- Copper and the sea have always been intimately associated, and in Lisbon they are brought into crisp modern conjunction.
2In a private and personal way. the pair laughed and talked intimately Example sentencesExamples - He claimed to have learned "from several who knew him intimately" that the sensibility of Gray was even morbid.
- The facts were often so transmogrified as to be unrecognizable except to the writer himself and to the people who knew him intimately.
- I look admiringly at the strangely worked beauty of his art while the two men talk intimately together.
- I loved the man, I got to know him intimately, and he's now dead.
- Internal evidence from the canon of Melville's writings suggests he knew Milton intimately and studied him closely.
- They produce a work that is at once ambiguous and, in its daring decisions, intimately personal.
- The acting is peerless, and you feel as if you know every individual man intimately.
- No one needed to see another movie where the villain and the cop know each other intimately.
- Playwright, director, and cast make you believe every word so that you feel you know these people as intimately as your own family.
- Opening the poem to contemporary reading and readers opens the context that, to Shelley's mind, he shared most intimately with Keats.
- 2.1euphemistic In a sexual way.
a fear of being touched intimately Example sentencesExamples - While two of the kids intimately embrace, the third nonchalantly smokes a cigarette.
- Teenagers who intimately kiss many different people almost quadruple their risk of developing meningitis, according to a study to be published today.
- It is very hard to concentrate whilst being held intimately in a man's arms.
- They broke up early this year, soon after some pictures that showed him intimately hugging another woman were publicized.
- She gradually abandoned her painting, only returning to it when she became intimately involved with Picasso.
- Apparently he noticed a young man intimately teasing his wife.
- The cabbie admits he could not resist a swipe at a young passenger who, after groping his girlfriend rather intimately, offered the driver a cigarette.
- She inevitably asked me if I had become intimately involved with anyone.
- He set his eyes on her, intimately caressed her very being, and embroidered thoughts in her mind totally unlike herself.
- He has described how he was intimately fondled by a prison doctor.
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