intensive
A thing which makes something more intenseA 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.
Meaning
2 sensesA 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.
A course taught intensively, involving much activity in a short period of time.
- a modifier that has little meaning except to intensify the meaning it modifies
Examples
59 sentencesTom is still in intensive care.
ruТом всё ещё в реанимации. — marafon
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. — Pfirsichbaeumchen
Tom is in intensive care.
ruТом в интенсивной терапии. — marafon
Tom worked in intensive care.
deTom arbeitete auf der Intensivstation. — Naina
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
plural: intensives| Singular | intensive |
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regular
Synonyms
1 synonyms- a modifier that has little meaning except to intensify the meaning it modifies:intensifier
See also
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