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n. someone to whom private matters are confided

v. imply as a possibility; "The evidence suggests a need for more clarification"

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adj. marked by close acquaintance, association, or familiarity; "intimate friend"; "intimate relations between economics, politics, and legal principles" - V.L. Parrington

personal, intimate

adj. concerning or affecting a particular person or his or her private life and personality; "a personal favor"; "for your personal use"; "personal papers"; "I have something personal to tell you"; "a personal God"; "he has his personal bank account and she has hers"

familiar, intimate

adj. having mutual interests or affections; of established friendship; "on familiar terms"; "pretending she is on an intimate footing with those she slanders"

inner, internal, intimate

adj. innermost or essential; "the inner logic of Cubism"; "the internal contradictions of the theory"; "the intimate structure of matter"

intimate, knowledgeable, versed

adj. thoroughly acquainted through study or experience; "this girl, so intimate with nature"-W.H.Hudson; "knowledgeable about the technique of painting"- Herbert Read

companion, comrade, fellow, familiar, associate

n. a friend who is frequently in the company of another; "drinking companions"; "comrades in arms"

chum salmon, chum, Oncorhynchus keta

n. a large Pacific salmon with small spots on its back; an important food fish

acquaintance, friend

n. a person with whom you are acquainted; "I have trouble remembering the names of all my acquaintances"; "we are friends of the family"

lover

n. a significant other to whom you are not related by marriage

quaker, trembler

n. one who quakes and trembles with (or as with) fear

familiar, familiar spirit

n. a spirit (usually in animal form) that acts as an assistant to a witch or wizard

sure, trusted

adj. (of persons) worthy of trust or confidence; "a sure (or trusted) friend"

esoteric

adj. confined to and understandable by only an enlightened inner circle; "a compilation of esoteric philosophical theories"

abstruse, deep, recondite

adj. difficult to penetrate; incomprehensible to one of ordinary understanding or knowledge; "the professor's lectures were so abstruse that students tended to avoid them"; "a deep metaphysical theory"; "some recondite problem in historiography"

personal

adj. concerning or affecting a particular person or his or her private life and personality; "a personal favor"; "for your personal use"; "personal papers"; "I have something personal to tell you"; "a personal God"; "he has his personal bank account and she has hers"

privileged

adj. not subject to usual rules or penalties; "a privileged statement"

inner, interior, internal

adj. located inward; "Beethoven's manuscript looks like a bloody record of a tremendous inner battle"- Leonard Bernstein; "she thinks she has no soul, no interior life, but the truth is that she has no access to it"- David Denby; "an internal sense of rightousness"- A.R.Gurney,Jr.

home(a), interior(a), internal, national

adj. inside the country; "the British Home Office has broader responsibilities than the United States Department of the Interior"; "the nation's internal politics"

technical, expert

adj. of or relating to or requiring special knowledge to be understood; "technical terminology"; "a technical report"; "technical language"

able, capable

adj. have the skills and qualifications to do things well; "able teachers"; "a capable administrator"; "children as young as 14 can be extremely capable and dependable"

literary

adj. knowledgeable about literature; "a literary style"

bookish, studious

adj. characterized by diligent study and fondness for reading; "a bookish farmer who always had a book in his pocket"; "a quiet studious child"

intellectual

adj. appealing to or using the intellect; "satire is an intellectual weapon"; "intellectual workers engaged in creative literary or artistic or scientific labor"; "has tremendous intellectual sympathy for oppressed people"; "coldly intellectual"; "sort of the intellectual type"; "intellectual literature"

mature

adj. having reached full natural growth or development; "a mature cell"

approximate, near

adj. very close in resemblance; "sketched in an approximate likeness"; "a near likeness"

boon

adj. very close and convivial; "boon companions"

chummy, buddy-buddy, thick(p)

adj. (used informally) associated on close terms; "a close friend"; "the bartender was chummy with the regular customers"; "the two were thick as thieves for months"

close-knit, closely knit

adj. held together as by social or cultural ties; "a close-knit family"; "close-knit little villages"; "the group was closely knit"

confidential

adj. denoting confidence or intimacy; "a confidential approach"; "in confidential tone of voice"

dear, good, near

adj. with or in a close or intimate relationship; "a good friend"; "my sisters and brothers are near and dear"

familiar, intimate

adj. having mutual interests or affections; of established friendship; "on familiar terms"; "pretending she is on an intimate footing with those she slanders"

backstage

adj. concealed from the public audience

clannish, cliquish, clubby, snobbish, snobby

adj. befitting or characteristic of those who incline to social exclusiveness and who rebuff the advances of people considered inferior

cloistered, reclusive, secluded, sequestered

adj. providing privacy or seclusion; "the cloistered academic world of books"; "sat close together in the sequestered pergola"; "sitting under the reclusive calm of a shade tree"; "a secluded romantic spot"

privy, secluded, secret

adj. hidden from general view or use; "a privy place to rest and think"; "a secluded romantic spot"; "a secret garden"

exclusive, restricted

adj. not for general or public use; "a private club"

individual, personal

adj. concerning or affecting a particular person or his or her private life and personality; "a personal favor"; "for your personal use"; "personal papers"; "I have something personal to tell you"; "a personal God"; "he has his personal bank account and she has hers"

insular

adj. suggestive of the isolated life of an island; "an exceedingly insular man; so deeply private as to seem inaccessible to the scrutiny of a novelist"- Leonard Michaels

nonpublic

adj. not invested with or related to prominent position or status etc.

offstage, backstage

adj. concealed from public view or attention; "offstage political meetings"

approximate, near

adj. very close in resemblance; "sketched in an approximate likeness"; "a near likeness"

boon

adj. very close and convivial; "boon companions"

intimate

adj. marked by close acquaintance, association, or familiarity; "intimate friend"; "intimate relations between economics, politics, and legal principles" - V.L. Parrington

chummy, buddy-buddy, thick(p)

adj. (used informally) associated on close terms; "a close friend"; "the bartender was chummy with the regular customers"; "the two were thick as thieves for months"

close-knit, closely knit

adj. held together as by social or cultural ties; "a close-knit family"; "close-knit little villages"; "the group was closely knit"

confidential

adj. denoting confidence or intimacy; "a confidential approach"; "in confidential tone of voice"

dear, good, near

adj. with or in a close or intimate relationship; "a good friend"; "my sisters and brothers are near and dear"

built-in, constitutional, inbuilt, inherent, integral

adj. existing as an essential constituent or characteristic; "the Ptolemaic system with its built-in concept of periodicity"; "a constitutional inability to tell the truth"

distant, remote

adj. far apart in relevance or relationship or kinship ; "a distant cousin"; "a remote relative"; "a distant likeness"; "considerations entirely removed (or remote) from politics"

public

adj. not private; open to or concerning the people as a whole; "the public good"; "public libraries"; "public funds"; "public parks"; "a public scandal"; "public gardens"; "performers and members of royal families are public figures"

distant, remote

adj. far apart in relevance or relationship or kinship ; "a distant cousin"; "a remote relative"; "a distant likeness"; "considerations entirely removed (or remote) from politics"

aloof, distant, upstage

adj. remote in manner; "stood apart with aloof dignity"; "a distant smile"; "he was upstage with strangers"

restrained, reticent, unemotional

adj. cool and formal in manner

infrequent

adj. not frequent; not occurring regularly or at short intervals; "infrequent outbursts of temper"

ignorant, unversed

adj. uneducated in the fundamentals of a given art or branch of learning; lacking knowledge of a specific field; "she is ignorant of quantum mechanics"; "he is musically illiterate"

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