intensive
intensives
Intensive describes things that are extreme, highly dramatic, or just plain thorough. 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.
Intensive is intense, which comes from the Latin for “high strung,” plus –ive, meaning “having the qualities of.” It’s an adjective that cranks up whatever it modifies. Doing too many intensive activities can make you high strung indeed, like taking that intensive chemistry class or participating in an intensive study on the effects of sleeplessness by staying awake for four days straight. That might get you put in intensive care.
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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”
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intense
possessing or displaying a distinctive feature to a heightened degree
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intense
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of agriculture; intended to increase productivity of a fixed area by expending more capital and labor“intensive agriculture”“intensive conditions”
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extensive
of agriculture; increasing productivity by using large areas with minimal outlay and labor
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extensive
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a modifier that has little meaning except to intensify the meaning it modifies
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intensifier
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tending to give force or emphasis“an intensive adverb”
intense / intensive / intent
Vocabulary lists containing intensive
Neel, a young Bengali boy, searches his island home to find a tiger cub and rescue it from a man who hopes to sell it on the black market.
When Primrose's parents are lost at sea, she finds companionship and comfort at an unusual restaurant where every dish is served on top of a waffle.
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