Intensive

/ɪnˈtɛnsɪv/ · adjective

Meaning

Done with intensity or to a great degree; thorough..

Definitions by Sense

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

Example Sentences

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.

I took a three-day intensive course in finance.

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

As his [God's] Perfection is infinitely greater than the perfection of a Man, ſo it is infinitely greater than the perfection of an Angel; and vvere it not infinitely greater than the perfection of an Angel, it could not be infinitely greater than the perfection of a Man, becauſe the intenſive diſtance betvveen the perfection of an Angel and of a Man is but finite: […]

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

The queſtion is in vvhat part of this Serpent the poyſon doth lye; Some ſay in the head alone, and that therefore the Bazeliske is deafe, bycauſe the Ayre vvhich ſerueth the Organe of hearing, is reſolued by the intenſiue calidity: but this ſeemeth not to bee true, […]

[T]he Imagination invvardly or outvvardly moued, repreſents to the vnderſtanding, not intiſements only to favour the paſſion or diſlike, but a very intenſiue pleaſure follovves the paſſion, or diſpleaſure, and the vvill and reaſon are captivated by delighting in it.

Some therefore vvere of opinion, that […] vvith that aſſiduous attendance, and intenſive circumſpection vvhich a long indulgent fortune did require, he vvas grovvn not unvvilling, for his ovvn eaſe, to beſtovv handſomly upon another ſome part of the pains, and perhaps of the envie.

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• more intensive
• most intensive
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