Origin
intimate + -ly
intimately
adverb
- When two people talk about the very personal details of their lives, this is an example of people who talk intimately.
- When someone knows a subject very well, this is an example of a situation where he knows the subject intimately.
Intimately is defined as something done with great familiarity or reflecting great closeness.
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Sentence Examples
- John he was intimately associated with the leaders of the parliamentary party.
- Their descendants are known as the senior and junior branches of the family, and since 1841 each has ruled his 'own portion as a separate state, though the lands belonging to each are so intimately entangled, that even in Dewas, the capital town, the two sides of the main street are under different administrations and have different arrangements for water supply and lighting.
- The doctrine was his protest against a separation of the human and the divine in Christ, and was intimately connected with his mystical view of the work of Christ.
- Evelyn, who knew him intimately from his youth, describes him as "a man of excellent natural parts but nothing of generous or grateful."
- The name of Delft is most intimately associated with the manufacture of the beautiful faience pottery for which it was once famous.
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