Post by c***@gmail.comIs unintimate a valid word? Can I use it anyway since it seems easily
understandable?
Main Entry:unintimate
Function:adjective
: not intimate; often : distant or shy in social relationships
Sure, you can use it. The question is whether it's the best word for the
context in which you want to put it.
"They have a significantly unintimate relationship, is what I heard,"
said the professor spewing gossip over the back fence.
But it's not an elegant adjective and doesn't fit all contexts.
"The sterile atmosphere in the club made every conversation at every
table seem as unintimate as what the management laughingly called
'personal service'."
"He's a most unintimate fellow, able to talk only about the insects he's
always spotting in the computers he manages, which is why he has no
friends of any stripe," the zoologist quipped.
"We had a typical unintimate conversation: precipitation, provenance,
providence, and propitiation, but nothing about procreation," she said to
her best friend of the priest assigned to preach to her about the proper
birds and bees.
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Franke: EFL teacher and medical editor
Posting from Taiwan
It's all in the way you say it, innit?