Intensive describes things that are extreme, highly dramatic, or just plain thorough. An intensive chemistry course meets six days a week for five hours a day. If you're in intensive care, you're getting close medical scrutiny, 24 7.
Stretched; admitting of intension, or increase of degree; that can be intensified.
Noun
a modifier that has little meaning except to intensify the meaning it modifies; "`up'' in `finished up'' is an intensifier"; "`honestly'' in `I honestly don''t know'' is an intensifier"
Adjective S.
characterized by a high degree or intensity; often used as a combining form; "the questioning was intensive"; "intensive care"; "research-intensive"; "a labor-intensive industry"
Adjective
of agriculture; intended to increase productivity of a fixed area by expending more capital and labor; "intensive agriculture"; "intensive conditions"
Adjective
tending to give force or emphasis; "an intensive adverb"
a.
Stretched; admitting of intension, or increase of
degree; that can be intensified.
a.
Characterized by persistence; intent; unremitted;
assiduous; intense.
a.
Serving to give force or emphasis; as, an intensive verb
or preposition.
n.
That which intensifies or emphasizes; an intensive verb
or word.
Intensive
Intensive
Stretched; admitting of intension, or increase of degree; that can be intensified.
That which intensifies or emphasizes; an intensive verb or word.
Usage Examples
You look at the steamboat, the railroad, the car, the airplane - not all of these were invented in the Anglo-American world, but they were popularized and extended by it. They were made possible by the financial architecture, the capital intensive operations invented and developed by the Anglo-Americans.
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Other Usage ExamplesBecause of technological limits, there is a certain amount of food that we can produce per acre. If we were to have intensive greenhouse agriculture, we could have much higher production.
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