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Definition of Intensive
1. Adjective. Characterized by a high degree or intensity; often used as a combining form. "A labor-intensive industry"
2. Noun. A modifier that has little meaning except to intensify the meaning it modifies. "`honestly' in `I honestly don't know' is an intensifier"
Generic synonyms: Modifier, Qualifier
Examples of language type: Living, Every Last, Well, All-fired, Bloody, Damn, Mightily, Mighty, Powerful, Right, In Truth, Really, Truly, Deadly, Deucedly, Devilishly, Insanely, Madly, Downright, Literally, Most, Hellishly, Infernally, So, Such, Positively, Marvellously, Marvelously, Superbly, Terrifically, Toppingly, Wonderfully, Wondrous, Wondrously, Ever, Ever So, Just, Simply, Candidly, Frankly, Honestly, Goddam, Goddamn, Goddamned, Precious, Preciously
Derivative terms: Intensify
3. Adjective. Tending to give force or emphasis. "An intensive adverb"
4. Adjective. Of agriculture; intended to increase productivity of a fixed area by expending more capital and labor. "Intensive conditions"
Definition of Intensive
1. a. Stretched; admitting of intension, or increase of degree; that can be intensified.
2. n. That which intensifies or emphasizes; an intensive verb or word.
3. a. Designating, or pertaining to, any system of farming or horticulture, usually practiced on small pieces of land, in which the soil is thoroughly worked and fertilized so as to get as much return as possible; -- opposed to extensive.
Definition of Intensive
1. Adjective. Thorough, to a great degree, with intensity. ¹
2. Adjective. Demanding, requiring a great amount. ¹
3. Adjective. Highly concentrated. ¹
4. Noun. (linguistics) Form of a word with a stronger or more forceful sense than the root on which the intensive is built. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Intensive
1. [n -S]
Medical Definition of Intensive
1. Relating to or marked by intensity; denoting a form of treatment by means of very large doses or of substances possessing great strength or activity. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Intensive
Literary usage of Intensive
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Outlines of Psychology by Wilhelm Max Wundt, Charles Hubbard Judd (1902)
"We may, accordingly, define intensive ideas, as combinations of sensational elements,
... It follows from their nature, that intensive ideas do not ..."
2. Health Care Technology And Its Assessment In Eight Countries edited by H. David Banta (2004)
"NEONATAL Intensive CARE Specialized clinics, fully equipped for neonatal intensive
care, appeared in Sweden during the 1960s and gradually spread. ..."
3. Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of English Usage by Inc. Merriam-Webster (1994)
"And there are long-standing disputes about the propriety of adjectives and flat
adverbs in intensive function. Historical observers like Lamberts 1972 and ..."
4. Outlines of Psychology: Based Upon the Results of Experimental Investigation by Oswald Külpe, Edward Bradford Titchener (1909)
"The Intensive Sensibility. x. The problems to be solved by the psychology of
sensation in connection with its second general property, that of intensity, ..."
5. Methods of Teaching in High Schools by Samuel Chester Parker (1920)
"It is in the content subject that the more intensive thorough treatment of fewer
... The part played by details in the intensive treatment of a few topics, ..."
6. The Practice of Silviculture: With Particular Reference to Its Application by Ralph Chipman Hawley (1921)
"Extensive versus Intensive Application — The discussion of the shelterwood method
has up to this point related particularly to its intensive application. ..."
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