intensive

Intensive means having high intensity. An intensive chemistry course meets six days a week for five hours a day. If you're in intensive care, you're getting close medical scrutiny, 24/7.

Intense means extreme––intense runners run marathons. Intense people have strong opinions, which they express forcefully. Intensity means the amount of intense-ness a thing has. If something is low-intensity, you might call it laid back. If something is high-intensity, it's intensive.

PRIMARY MEANINGS OF: intensive

1	adj	characterized by a high degree or intensity; often used as a combining form
2	n adj	a modifier that has little meaning except to intensify the meaning it modifies tending to give force or emphasis

FULL DEFINITIONS OF: intensive

1

adj characterized by a high degree or intensity; often used as a combining form

“the questioning was intensive”

“intensive care”

“research-intensive”

“a labor-intensive industry”

Synonyms: intense
possessing or displaying a distinctive feature to a heightened degree

adj of agriculture; intended to increase productivity of a fixed area by expending more capital and labor

“intensive agriculture”

“intensive conditions”

Antonyms:: extensive
of agriculture; increasing productivity by using large areas with minimal outlay and labor

2

n a modifier that has little meaning except to intensify the meaning it modifies

Synonyms:: intensifier

Type of:: modifier, qualifier
a content word that qualifies the meaning of a noun or verb

adj tending to give force or emphasis

“an intensive adverb”

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PRIMARY MEANINGS OF: intensive

adj characterized by a high degree or intensity; often used as a combining form

adj of agriculture; intended to increase productivity of a fixed area by expending more capital and labor

n a modifier that has little meaning except to intensify the meaning it modifies

adj tending to give force or emphasis