intensive in English

adjective

1

concentrated on a single area or subject or into a short time; very thorough or vigorous.

she undertook an intensive Arabic course

synonyms: thorough, thoroughgoing, in-depth, rigorous, exhaustive, all-inclusive, comprehensive, all-embracing, all-encompassing, complete, full, vigorous, strenuous, concentrated, condensed, accelerated, detailed, minute, close, meticulous, scrupulous, painstaking, methodical, careful

2

(of an adjective, adverb, or particle) expressing intensity; giving force or emphasis.

Fernando Pereira emailed an anecdote about intensive use of eh.

3

denoting a property that is measured in terms of intensity (e.g., concentration) rather than of extent (e.g., volume), and so is not simply increased by addition of one thing to another.

Clearly, the intercept differences produced by the intensive properties were substantially smaller than those produced by spatial properties.

noun

1

an intensive adjective, adverb, or particle; an intensifier.

Particles are added, usually as completives and intensives , to two and three-syllable verbs of Latin origin: contract out, divide off/up, level off, measure off/out, select out, separate off/out.

adjective

thorough, thoroughgoing, in-depth, rigorous, exhaustive, all-inclusive, comprehensive, all-embracing, all-encompassing, complete, full, vigorous, strenuous, concentrated, condensed, accelerated, detailed, minute, close, meticulous, scrupulous, painstaking, methodical, careful

noun

intensifier

Use "intensive" in a sentence

1. Intensive care, meningitis, 1986.

2. He'll need intensive physiotherapy.

3. vi) Promote and scale up labour-intensive recovery activities instead of capital-intensive programmes

4. It involves intensive Bimanual training

5. Intensive farming is depleting soils.

6. Rice production is very labour intensive .

7. [Middle English Availen: a-, intensive pref

8. But it was very labor intensive.

9. Intensive cultivation has impoverished the soil.

10. I've done some intensive market research.

11. 5 The concepts of purpose, relevancy and reasonableness can be used in an intensive or less intensive fashion.

12. Hand Arm Bimanual Intensive Training At Home

13. European Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care

14. It's an oil-free, weekly intensive conditioner.

15. Jurassic epirogenic movements were intensive in the area of Potosi and south, where intensive folding and unconformities were observed.

16. Countries with large amounts of capital will export capital-intensive products and import labor-intensive products with the proceeds.

17. Police drivers have to undergo intensive training .

18. European Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care

19. The Catchline is particularly time and labor intensive

20. An intensive search failed to reveal any clues.

21. Said processes are achieved by intensive blending operations.

22. In addition, those infected require prolonged intensive care.

23. I'll make an intensive study of a subject.

24. The conditions were unfavourable for intensive agricultural production.

25. Intensive bombing had reduced the city to rubble.

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27. What does Corking mean? Used as an intensive

28. Inventory management is labor-intensive and technologically demanding.

29. Subject: Shortage of intensive care units in Greece

30. 9 She needed intensive care for several days.

31. 4 She needed intensive care for three weeks.

32. These labor intensive Alignments are available at all locations

33. His investigations were intensive and thorough but revealed nothing.

34. Intensive negotiations between the main parties preceded the vote.

35. Intensive training is making many activists a trifle monosyllabic.

36. Used as an intensive: I hate these Blasted flies

37. They moved me from intensive care to acute spinal.

38. Pulley specifically designed for heavy loads and intensive use.

39. His disappearance has been the subject of intensive investigation.

40. Multiresistant bacteria are most prominent on intensive care units.

41. Ahead of us lay ten days of intensive training.

42. Many suffered injuries, including mutilation, after the intensive bombing.

43. Cleaning of gas is difficult and labour intensive process.

44. Knowledge requires repeated explorations, and farmland needs intensive cultivation.

45. These treatments often require intensive care support which will probably require a relative and possibly an absolute increase of intensive care capacities and budgets.

46. Doctors now call basal-Bolus therapy intensive or flexible insulin

47. Severe flu management: a point of view Intensive Care Med

48. Making Antivenom is a painstaking, resource-intensive, time-consuming process

49. Hip Adductor tendinopathy usually appears due to intensive daily training

50. This could be achieved in three years, using intensive cultivation.