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intensive
[ in-ten-siv ]
adjective
- of, relating to, or characterized by intensity:
intensive questioning.
- tending to intensify; intensifying.
- Medicine/Medical.
- increasing in intensity or degree.
- instituting treatment to the limit of safety.
- noting or pertaining to a system of agriculture involving the cultivation of limited areas, and relying on the maximum use of labor and expenditures to raise the crop yield per unit area ( extensive ).
- requiring or having a high concentration of a specified quality or element (used in combination):
Coal mining is a labor-intensive industry.
- Grammar. indicating increased emphasis or force. Certainly is an intensive adverb. Myself in I did it myself is an intensive pronoun.
noun
- something that intensifies.
- Grammar. an intensive element or formation, as -self in himself, or Latin -ō in iac-ō, “I hurl” from ō, “I throw.”
intensive
/ ɪˈɛԲɪ /
adjective
- involving the maximum use of land, time, or some other resource
an intensive course
intensive agriculture
- usually in combination using one factor of production proportionately more than others, as specified
labour-intensive
capital-intensive
- agriculture involving or farmed using large amounts of capital or labour to increase production from a particular area Compare extensive
- denoting or relating to a grammatical intensifier
- denoting or belonging to a class of pronouns used to emphasize a noun or personal pronoun, such as himself in the sentence John himself did it. In English, intensive pronouns are identical in form with reflexive pronouns
- of or relating to intension
- physics of or relating to a local property, measurement, etc, that is independent of the extent of the system Compare extensive
noun
- an intensifier or intensive pronoun or grammatical construction
Derived Forms
- ˈٱԲԱ, noun
- ˈٱԲ, adverb
Other Word Forms
- ·ٱs· adverb
- ·ٱs·Ա noun
- ܲi·ٱs adjective
- un·ٱs· adverb
Word History and Origins
Origin of intensive1
Example Sentences
The 70-year-old remains in intensive care and will undergo new tests.
Vanellope is taken to the children's paediatric intensive care unit and will spend some time in hospital recovering.
This was the chocolate that resulted in her being treated in intensive care.
“Just a little support at a critical moment can really prevent the need for much more intensive service later,” said pediatric psychologist Marian Williams, the program’s co-director.
An Israeli strike has destroyed the intensive care and surgery departments of the main medical facility in Gaza City, Hamas has said.
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