Intensive Meaning and Definition


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Intensive meaning

Word: Intensive

How to pronounce: ɪnˈtensɪv

Adjective

Definitions:

1. Concentrated on a single area or subject or into a short time; very thorough or vigorous.

Example sentences: "She undertook an intensive Arabic course"

2. (of an adjective, adverb, or particle) expressing intensity; giving force or emphasis.

3. Denoting a property which is measured in terms of intensity (e.g. concentration) rather than of extent (e.g. volume), and so is not simply increased by addition of one thing to another.

Example sentences: "Clearly, the intercept differences produced by the intensive properties were substantially smaller than those produced by spatial properties."

Noun

Definitions:

1. An intensive adjective, adverb, or particle; an intensifier.

Example sentences: "Particles are added, usually as completives and intensives, to two and three-syllable verbs of Latin origin: contract out, divide off/up, level off, measure off/out, select out, separate off/out."


Synonyms:

laborious

tedious

arduous

cumbersome

hard

stressful

vigorous

strenuous

heavy

fierce

violent

furious

profound

deep

acute

keen


Antonyms:

weak


Derivations:

intensively

intensely

intensity

intension

intense

intensify


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Intensive in Other Languages...

Spanish: Intensivo

German: Kapazität

French: Intensif

Italian: Intensivo

Turkish: Yoğun


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