intensive
/ɪnˈtɛnsɪv/
Done with intensity or to a great degree; thorough; Being made more intense; Making something more intense
- comparative
- more intensive
- superlative
- most intensive
Meanings
- 1
Done with intensity or to a great degree; thorough
The patient is in intensive care.
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He is in hospital in intensive care.
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- 2
Being made more intense
- 3
Making something more intense; intensifying.; Of agriculture: increasing the productivity of an area of land
- 4
Making something more intense; intensifying.; Of a word: serving to give emphasis or force
- 5
Involving much activity in a short period of time; highly concentratedrare
- 6
Of or pertaining to innate or internal intensity or strength rather than outward extentrare
- 7
Chiefly suffixed to a noun: using something with intensity; requiring a great amount of something; demandingrare
- 8
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 conditionsrare
- 9
That can be intensified; allowing an increase of degreerare
- 10
Synonym of intense (“extreme or very high or strong in degree; of feelings, thoughts, etc.: strongly focused”)rare