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Intensive
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What's The Definition Of Intensive?
[n] 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"
[adj] 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" [adj] of agriculture; intended to increase productivity of a fixed area by expending more capital and labor; "intensive agriculture"; "intensive conditions" [adj] tending to give force or emphasis; "an intensive adverb" Synonyms | Synonyms for Intensive: intense | intensifier Related Terms | Find terms related to Intensive: absolute | all-embracing | all-encompassing | all-out | all-pervading | born | broad-based | clean | clear | comprehensive | concentrated | congenital | consummate | deep | deep-dyed | downright | dyed-in-the-wool | egregious | exhaustive | hard | intense | intensified | omnibus | omnipresent | out-and-out | outright | perfect | pervasive | plain | plumb | profound | pure | radical | regular | sheer | straight | sweeping | thorough | thoroughgoing | through-and-through | total | ubiquitous | unconditional | universal | unmitigated | unqualified | unreserved | unrestricted | utter | veritable | wholesale See Also | modifier | qualifier Intensive In Webster's Dictionary \In*ten"sive\, a. [Cf. F. intensif. See {Intense}.]
1. Stretched; admitting of intension, or increase of degree;
that can be intensified. --Sir M. Hale.
2. Characterized by persistence; intent; unremitted;
assiduous; intense. [Obs.] --Sir H. Wotton.
3. (Gram.) Serving to give force or emphasis; as, an
intensive verb or preposition.
\In*ten"sive\, n. That which intensifies or emphasizes; an intensive verb or word. \In*ten"sive\, a. (Agric.) Designating, or pertaining to, any system of farming or horticulture, usually practiced on small pieces of land, in which the soil is thoroughly worked and fertilized so as to get as much return as possible; -- opposed to {extensive}. |
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