intensives
- 1Plural of intensive.
Grammar guides often list "so," "totally," and "absolutely" among the most overused intensives.
The editor circled a cluster of intensives crowding a single paragraph.
Note
A regular plural that serves two quite different nouns. To a linguist, intensives are word forms built on a root to give it stronger force. In a school or training program, the same plural names short courses packed with activity. Context usually settles which is meant. Only the noun takes the -s: the adjective, as in intensive farming, never appears as intensives.
intensives is a form of intensive
intensive, noun: A short, concentrated course that packs much activity and learning into a brief period. Full entry
- Forms
- intensiveintensives plural
- Spelling
- intensive → intensives: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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