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intensive definition

in·ten·sive (in ten′siv)

adjective

  1. increasing or causing to increase in degree or amount
  2. of or characterized by intensity; thorough, profound, and intense; concentrated or exhaustive
  3. designating care of an especially attentive nature given to critically ill hospital patients, typically in a special ward (intensive care unit)
  4. Agric. designating a system of farming which aims at the increase of yield per acre by using increased labor, capital, etc.
  5. Gram. giving force or emphasis; emphasizing “very” in “the very same man” is an intensive adverb

Etymology: ML intensious < L intensus: see intense & -ive

noun

  1. anything that intensifies
  2. an intensive word, prefix, etc.

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intensive Synonyms

intensive

modif.

concentrated, exhaustive, all-out, accelerated; see absolute 1, fast 1, intense.


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intensive Usage Examples

Preposition: at

  • time: Farm work was labor intensive at this time and was mainly carried out using horses.

Adjective complement with noun phrase

  • become: Monitoring becomes much more labor intensive and difficult in asset classes where there is low liquidity and lower transparency.

Modifies a noun

  • farming: The guiding motto of intensive farming is ' waste nothing, productivity is everything ' .

Modifying Another Word

  • computationally: Maybe we should put all the computationally intensive components under a mountain.

Used with adjective complement

  • labor: Because our services are very labor intensive, directly employed staff account for by far the largest portion of budgets.

Preposition: in

  • term: These are also very resource intensive in terms of maintenance and raise issues about sustainability.
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