intensive

Pluralintensives

1. 1
   adjective

   Packed with a lot of activity over a short time.

   Like fitting a whole week of work into one busy afternoon.

   The summer program was intensive, fitting a year of lessons into six weeks.

   They scheduled intensive rehearsals during the last week before opening night.

   Similarconcentrated, intense, accelerated, rigorous

2. 2
   adjective

   Needing a large amount of something, such as work, money, or energy.

   Like a car that needs a lot of gas to keep going.

   Raising animals this way is extremely intensive, needing constant labor and lots of feed.

   Large data centers are notoriously energy-intensive.

   Similardemanding, laborious

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3. 3
   adjective

   Done very carefully and completely, with a lot of effort.

   Like cleaning every corner of a room instead of a quick tidy-up.

   The detectives launched an intensive search for the missing documents.

   Recovery required intensive physical therapy over many months.

   Similarthorough, exhaustive, rigorous, concentrated, comprehensive

   Oppositesuperficial

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4. 4
   adjective

   Used about medical care that gives constant, close attention to keep a very sick person alive.

   Like watching over a tiny baby every single minute.

   He needed intensive care for several days after the operation.

   The nurses kept the patient under intensive monitoring all night.

   Similarcritical, aggressive

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5. 5
   nouncountable

   A short class that teaches a lot in just a few days or weeks.

   Like a sports camp that trains you all day, every day, for a week.

   She signed up for a two-week Spanish intensive over the summer.

   The coding intensive met every day for a month.

   Similarworkshop

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6. 6
   adjective

   Used about a word that makes another word stronger, like 'very' or 'really'.

   Like turning up the volume on a word.

   Words like 'so' and 'really' are intensive because they add force.

   He added an intensive word to show just how tired he felt.

   Similaremphatic

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7. 7
   adjective

   In farming, using lots of work and supplies to grow the most from the land.

   Like growing many plants in a small garden by giving them lots of care.

   Intensive farming can produce huge crops from a small field.

   They switched to intensive methods to grow more food on the same land.

   Similarindustrial

   Oppositeextensive

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8. 8
   nouncountable

   A word or form that makes another word's meaning stronger.

   Like adding an exclamation mark to make a word stronger.

   'Terribly' can work as an intensive that makes 'sorry' sound stronger.

   Writers use an intensive to give a plain word more force.

   Similarintensifier

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9. 9
   adjective

   Describing a quality that depends on the inner nature of something, not its size or amount.

   Like the sweetness of juice: it tastes the same in a small cup or a big jug.

   Temperature is an intensive property because it does not change with size.

   Density is intensive, so a small piece and a large piece have the same value.

   Oppositeextensive

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10. 10
    adjective

    Being made stronger or more intense.

    Like a fire that gets hotter as you add more wood.

    The storm grew intensive within minutes.

    As tempers rose, the meeting became increasingly intensive.

    Similarheated, fierce, vigorous

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