intensive
English
/ɪnˈtɛnsɪv/
adj
Definitions
- 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.
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French intensif derived from Latin intensivus, intensus (stretched tight).
Origin
Latin
intensus
Gloss
stretched tight
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- biointensive English
- hyperintensive English
- hypointensive English
- intensively English
- intensiveness English
- intensivist English
- labor English
- labor-intensive English
- neurointensive English
- neurointensivist English
- nonintensive English
- superintensive English
- ultraintensive English
- work English
- work-intensive English
- intensiivinen Finnish
- *intensāre Latin
- intendere Latin
- intensivus Latin
- intensus Latin
- intensīvus Latin
- intenso Italian
- inteso Italian
- intense French
- intensif French
- entesar Spanish, Castilian
- intenso Spanish, Castilian
- intens Norwegian Bokmål
- intenso Portuguese
- intens Norwegian Nynorsk
- entès Catalan, Valencian
- intenso Galician
- întins Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- intense Middle French
- intensif Middle French
- אינטנסיבי Hebrew (modern)