Intensive

Quick meaning: Intensive is an adjective meaning Done with intensity or to a great degree; thorough.

Meaning

Done with intensity or to a great degree; thorough.

More Meanings

1. Being made more intense.
2. Making something more intense; intensifying.
3. Involving much activity in a short period of time; highly concentrated.
4. Of or pertaining to innate or internal intensity or strength rather than outward extent.
5. Chiefly suffixed to a noun: using something with intensity; requiring a great amount of something; demanding.
6. That can be intensified; allowing an increase of degree.
7. Synonym of intense (“extreme or very high or strong in degree; of feelings, thoughts, etc.: strongly focused”).

Example Sentences

I took a three-day intensive course in finance.

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

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

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.

Word Forms

• intensives

Synonyms for intensive

Depending on context, synonyms include intense, intensifier.

Antonyms for intensive

Common opposites include unintensive, nonintensive, superficial, extensive.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include intensifier, intense, intensity, drastic, robust, strong.

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