Intensive Definition
ĭn-tĕnsĭv
adjective
Increasing or causing to increase in degree or amount.
Webster's New World
Of or characterized by intensity; thorough, profound, and intense; concentrated or exhaustive.
Webster's New World
Tending to emphasize or intensify.
An intensive adverb.
American Heritage
Possessing or requiring to a high degree. Often used in combination.
Labor-intensive.
American Heritage
Designating care of an especially attentive nature given to critically ill hospital patients, typically in a special ward (intensive care unit)
Webster's New World
Synonyms:
noun
A linguistic element, such as the adverb extremely or awfully, that provides force or emphasis.
American Heritage
Anything that intensifies.
Webster's New World
An intensive word, prefix, etc.
Webster's New World
Synonyms:
affix
Intensively using, requiring large amounts of, or concentrating within itself large amounts of (a specified thing)
Labor-intensive.
Webster's New World
Other Word Forms of Intensive
Noun
Singular:
intensivePlural:
intensivesOrigin of Intensive
From Middle French intensif, from Medieval Latin intensivus, from intendere.
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