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intensive

adj
/ɪnˈtɛnsɪv/US

Etymology

The adjective is derived from Late Middle English intensive (“fervent, great, intense”), borrowed from Old French intensif, intensive (modern French intensif) + Middle English -ive (suffix meaning ‘of the nature of, relating to’ forming adjectives), equivalent to intense + -ive. Intensif is from Medieval Latin intēnsīvus, from Latin intēnsus (“attentive; eager, intent; intensive”) + -īvus (suffix forming adjectives with the sense ‘doing; related to doing’); and intēnsus is the perfect passive participle of intendō (“to stretch out, strain”), from in- (prefix meaning ‘to, towards’) + tendō (“to extend, stretch, stretch out”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *tend- (“to extend, stretch”)). Doublet of intend. The noun is derived from the adjective.

  1. derived from *tend-✻ — “to extend, stretch”
  2. derived from intēnsus — “attentive; eager, intent; intensive”
  3. derived from intēnsīvus
  4. derived from intensif
  5. inherited from intensive — “fervent, great, intense”

Definitions

  1. Done with intensity or to a great degree

    Done with intensity or to a great degree; thorough.

    • Secondly, I continue to base my concepts on intensive study of a limited suite of collections, rather than superficial study of every packet that comes to hand.

  2. Being made more intense.

  3. Making something more intense

    Making something more intense; intensifying.

  4. ›+ 7 more definitions

    1. Involving much activity in a short period of time

      Involving much activity in a short period of time; highly concentrated.

      • I took a three-day intensive course in finance.

    2. Of or pertaining to innate or internal intensity or strength rather than outward extent.

    3. Chiefly suffixed to a noun

      Chiefly suffixed to a noun: using something with intensity; requiring a great amount of something; demanding.

      • This job is difficult because it is so labour-intensive.

    4. That can be intensified

      That can be intensified; allowing an increase of degree.

    5. Synonym of intense (“extreme or very high or strong in degree

      Synonym of intense (“extreme or very high or strong in degree; of feelings, thoughts, etc.: strongly focused”).

      • Faſcination is the povver and act of Imagination, intenſiue vpon other bodies, than the bodie of the Imaginant; […]

    6. A thing which makes something more intense

      A thing which makes something more intense; specifically (linguistics), a form of a word with a more forceful or stronger sense than the root on which it is built.

    7. A course taught intensively, involving much activity in a short period of time.

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Derived

biointensive, capital-intensive, capital intensive, carbon-intensive, energy-intensive, for all intensive purposes, hyperintensive, hypointensive, intensive agriculture, intensive animal farming, intensive care, intensive care unit, intensive farming, intensively, intensiveness, intensive pronoun, intensive property, intensive therapy, intensive treatment, intensivist, labor-intensive, labour-intensive, neurointensive, nonintensive, nonintensively, plural intensive, power-intensive, superintensive, time-intensive, ultraintensive, unintensive, work-intensive

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA