intensive
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: agriculture
business
economics
education
human-sciences
lifestyle
linguistics
medicine
sciences
Etymology: The 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.
The noun is derived from the adjective.
Base: intense
Affixes: -ive
Inflected forms:
form: more intensive
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most intensive
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: intensives
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Done with intensity or to a great degree; thorough.
pos: adj
examples: Secondly, I continue to base my concepts on intensive study of a limited suite of collections, rather than superficial study of every packet that comes to hand.
gloss: Being made more intense.
pos: adj
gloss: Making something more intense; intensifying.
pos: adj
gloss: Making something more intense; intensifying.
pos: adj
examples: an intensive verb or preposition
Ariſtophanes deriueth it [the word asp] from Alpha, an intenſiue Particle, and Spizo vvhich ſignifieth to extend; either by reaſon of his ſharpe-ſhrill hiſſing, or for the length of his body.
gloss: Involving much activity in a short period of time; highly concentrated.
pos: adj
examples: I took a three-day intensive course in finance.
gloss: Of or pertaining to innate or internal intensity or strength rather than outward extent.
pos: adj
gloss: Chiefly suffixed to a noun: using something with intensity; requiring a great amount of something; demanding.
pos: adj
examples: This job is difficult because it is so labour-intensive.
gloss: Chiefly suffixed to a noun: using something with intensity; requiring a great amount of something; demanding.
pos: adj
examples: She was moved to the intensive-care unit of the hospital.
gloss: That can be intensified; allowing an increase of degree.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
examples: As his [God's] Perfection is infinitely greater than the perfection of a Man, ſo it is infinitely greater than the perfection of an Angel; and vvere it not infinitely greater than the perfection of an Angel, it could not be infinitely greater than the perfection of a Man, becauſe the intenſive diſtance betvveen the perfection of an Angel and of a Man is but finite: […]
gloss: Synonym of intense (“extreme or very high or strong in degree; of feelings, thoughts, etc.: strongly focused”).
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
examples: Faſcination is the povver and act of Imagination, intenſiue vpon other bodies, than the bodie of the Imaginant; […]
The queſtion is in vvhat part of this Serpent the poyſon doth lye; Some ſay in the head alone, and that therefore the Bazeliske is deafe, bycauſe the Ayre vvhich ſerueth the Organe of hearing, is reſolued by the intenſiue calidity: but this ſeemeth not to bee true, […]
[T]he Imagination invvardly or outvvardly moued, repreſents to the vnderſtanding, not intiſements only to favour the paſſion or diſlike, but a very intenſiue pleaſure follovves the paſſion, or diſpleaſure, and the vvill and reaſon are captivated by delighting in it.
Some therefore vvere of opinion, that […] vvith that aſſiduous attendance, and intenſive circumſpection vvhich a long indulgent fortune did require, he vvas grovvn not unvvilling, for his ovvn eaſe, to beſtovv handſomly upon another ſome part of the pains, and perhaps of the envie.
gloss: A 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.
pos: noun
gloss: A course taught intensively, involving much activity in a short period of time.
pos: noun
examples: Beginning in 2014, ETSI [the Emory-Tibet Science Initiative] embarked on a six-year implementation phase at three monastic universities (Sera, Ganden, and Drepung). This program is composed of summer intensives taught by faculty from Emory and other institutions, year-round study led by on-site instructors, translation and production of bilingual textbooks and instructional videos, and further curriculum refinement.
Related words: intend
intensative
intense
intensify
intensity
intent
intentive
extensive
Derived words: biointensive
capital-intensive
capital intensive
carbon-intensive
energy-intensive
for all intensive purposes
hyperintensive
hypointensive
intensive agriculture
intensive animal farming
intensive care
intensive care unit
intensive farming
intensively
intensiveness
intensive pronoun
intensive property
intensive therapy
intensive treatment
intensivist
labor-intensive
labour-intensive
neurointensive
nonintensive
nonintensively
plural intensive
power-intensive
superintensive
time-intensive
ultraintensive
unintensive
work-intensive
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: напрегнат
roman: napregnat
lang: Catalan
word: intensiu
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 集約 /集约
roman: jíyuē
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 強烈 /强烈
roman: qiángliè
lang: Finnish
word: intensiivinen
lang: Finnish
word: vaativa
lang: French
word: intensif
lang: German
word: intensiv
lang: Italian
word: impegnativo
lang: Māori
word: whakaharahara
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: intensiv
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: intensiv
lang: Russian
word: интенси́вный
roman: intensívnyj
lang: Spanish
word: intensivo
lang: Turkish
word: yoğun