intensive
IPA: ɪntˈɛnsɪv
noun
- (linguistics) A form of a word with a stronger or more forceful sense than the root on which the intensive is built.
- A course taught intensively.
adjective
- Thorough; to a great degree; with intensity.
- Demanding; requiring a great amount of work etc.
- Highly concentrated.
- (obsolete) Stretched; allowing intension, or increase of degree; that can be intensified.
- Characterized by persistence; intent; assiduous.
- (grammar) Serving to give force or emphasis.
- (medicine) Related to the need to manage life-threatening conditions by means of sophisticated life support and monitoring.
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Examples of "intensive" in Sentences
- The main focus of the curriculum is intensive language study.
- If you get maggots on your face in 'intensive' care, what's bog-standard care like?
- COOPER: It doesn't specify this agreement jail time, but it places him on what they call intensive probation.
- Cooper: It doesn't specify, this agreement, jail time, but it places him on what they call intensive probation.
- Reuters is quoting the Vatican as saying that the pope will spend the night in his own hospital room, not in what they call intensive care.
- This is written by two Ghanaians who have an interesting method of reducing labor and number of cages by housing rabbits in large groups which they call intensive gangs.
- The most unusual idea (based on what I have read) is their method of reducing labor and number of cages by housing rabbits in large groups which they call intensive gangs.
- And while White House officials say that tangible progress has been made in what they describe as intensive negotiations between the Israelis and Palestinians, they gave no specifics, citing a need for confidentiality.
- And the pains to which Mr. Maliki, the Iraqi prime minister's officials went to lead us through this step by step, and what they described as intensive consultations with Western humanitarian organizations after the Saddam hanging to make sure that this one was done with dignity, respect for the condemned men.
- BURNS: It did look like an accident and the pains to which Mr. Maliki, the Iraqi prime minister's officials went, to lead us through this step by step and what they described as intensive consultations with Western humanitarian organizations after the Saddam hanging to make sure that this one was done with dignity, respect for the condemned men, I must say, left me feeling that these people -- this is a blighted government.
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