intensive
Done with intensity or to a great degreeDone with intensity or to a great degree; thorough.
» Tom is still in intensive care.
Том всё ещё в реанимации.
Meaning
10 sensesDone with intensity or to a great degree; thorough.
characterized by a high degree or intensity; often used as a combining form
Being made more intense.
Making something more intense; intensifying.
Of agriculture: increasing the productivity of an area of land.
of agriculture; intended to increase productivity of a fixed area by expending more capital and labor
Of a word: serving to give emphasis or force.
an intensive verb or preposition
tending to give force or emphasis
Involving much activity in a short period of time; highly concentrated.
I took a three-day intensive course in finance.
Of or pertaining to innate or internal intensity or strength rather than outward extent.
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.
Chiefly suffixed to a noun: using something with intensity; requiring a great amount of something; demanding.
Chiefly in intensive care: of care or treatment: involving a great degree of life support, monitoring, and other forms of effort in order to manage life-threatening conditions.
She was moved to the intensive-care unit of the hospital.
intensiv
интенси́вныйintensívnyj
(obsolete)That can be intensified; allowing an increase of degree.
(obsolete)Synonym of intense (“extreme or very high or strong in degree; of feelings, thoughts, etc.: strongly focused”).
Examples
59 sentencesTom is still in intensive care.
ruТом всё ещё в реанимации.
Tom spent weeks in intensive care.
The two gunshot victims are in the intensive care unit at a nearby hospital.
deDie zwei Schussopfer befinden sich auf der Intensivstation eines nahegelegenen Krankenhauses.
Tom is in intensive care.
ruТом в интенсивной терапии.
Tom worked in intensive care.
deTom arbeitete auf der Intensivstation.
Translations
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Origin
The adjective is derived from Late Middle English intensive (“fervent, great, intense”), bThe 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.
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Forms
more intensive, most intensive| Comparative | more intensive Lesson |
|---|---|
| Superlative | most intensive Lesson |
regular
Synonyms
2 synonymsAntonyms
5 antonymsWord family
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