INTIMATELY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does intimately mean? 

• INTIMATELY (adverb)
  The adverb INTIMATELY has 2 senses:

1. in a close manner

2. with great or especially intimate knowledge

  Familiarity information: INTIMATELY used as an adverb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INTIMATELY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In a close manner

Synonyms:

closely; intimately; nearly

Context example:

the person most nearly concerned

Sense 2

Meaning:

With great or especially intimate knowledge

Synonyms:

intimately; well

Context example:

we knew them well

Pertainym:

intimate (marked by close acquaintance, association, or familiarity)

 Context examples 

But I have not known him long; and he is not a man, I think, to be known intimately soon.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

She who had known him intimately half a year!

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

And you have been most intimately associated with some one whose initials were J.A., and whom you afterwards were eager to entirely forget.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Since taste and smell are intimately linked in terms of the enjoyment of food, a deficiency in the ability to smell can lead to decreased food intake with possible malnutrition.

(Malignant Olfactory Nerve Neoplasm, NCI Thesaurus)

A rare tumor containing unequivocal elements of both hepatocellular and cholangiocarcinoma that are intimately admixed.

(Combined Hepatocellular Carcinoma and Cholangiocarcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)

Mrs. Ferrars is certainly nothing to me at present—but the time MAY come—how soon it will come must depend upon herself—when we may be very intimately connected.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

This Mrs. Younge was, he knew, intimately acquainted with Wickham; and he went to her for intelligence of him as soon as he got to town.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

“Why, I am intimately acquainted with them!”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Understanding the carbon cycle involves research across the terrestrial-aquatic-ocean continuum, which this study shows is intimately connected, said Hedy Edmonds, a program director in NSF's Division of Ocean Sciences.

(Tropical soil disturbance could be hidden source of carbon dioxide, National Science Foundation)

A day is the time for Earth to make one complete rotation on its axis, and a year is one revolution around the Sun — reminders that basic units of time and periods on Earth are intimately linked to our planet's motion in space.

(Deep-sea sediments lead to new understanding of solar system, National Science Foundation)