Immediate vs Intimate - What's the difference?
immediate | intimate |
Happening right away, instantly, with no delay.
* Shakespeare
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=19 Very close; direct or adjacent.
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Manifestly true; requiring no argument.
embedded as part of the instruction itself, rather than stored elsewhere (such as a register or memory location)
Closely acquainted; familiar.
Of or involved in a sexual relationship.
Personal; private.
A very close friend.
(in plural intimates ) Women's underwear, sleepwear, or lingerie, especially offered for sale in a store.
To suggest or disclose discreetly.
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As adjectives the difference between immediate and intimate
is that immediate is ; immediate (without delay) while intimate is closely acquainted; familiar.As a noun intimate is
a very close friend.As a verb intimate is
to suggest or disclose discreetly.immediate
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Assemble we immediate council.
citation, passage=When Timothy and Julia hurried up the staircase to the bedroom floor, where a considerable commotion was taking place, Tim took Barry Leach with him. He had him gripped firmly by the arm, since he felt it was not safe to let him loose, and he had no immediate idea what to do with him.}}
- You are the most immediate to our throne.
Derived terms
* immediatelyAnagrams
* ----intimate
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- an intimate friend
- He and his sister deeply valued their intimate relationship as they didn't have much else to live for.
- She enjoyed some intimate time alone with her husband.
- an intimate setting
Noun
(en noun)- Only a couple of intimates had ever read his writing.
- You'll find bras and panties in the women's intimates section upstairs.
Synonyms
* (close friend) bosom buddy, bosom friend, cater-cousinVerb
(intimat)- The Kaiser beamed. Von Bulow had praised him. Von Bulow had exalted him and humbled himself. The Kaiser could forgive anything after that. "Haven't I always told you," he exclaimed with enthusiasm, "that we complete one another famously? We should stick together, and we will!"
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Von Bulow saved himself in time—but, canny diplomat that he was, he nevertheless had made one error: he should have begun by talking about his own shortcomings and Wilhelm's superiority—not by intimating that the Kaiser was a half-wit in need of a guardian.
- He intimated that we should leave before the argument escalated.
