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intensive
[ in-ten-siv ]
adjective
- of, relating to, or characterized by intensity:
intensive questioning.
- tending to intensify; intensifying.
- Medicine/Medical.
- increasing in intensity or degree.
- instituting treatment to the limit of safety.
- noting or pertaining to a system of agriculture involving the cultivation of limited areas, and relying on the maximum use of labor and expenditures to raise the crop yield per unit area ( extensive ).
- requiring or having a high concentration of a specified quality or element (used in combination):
Coal mining is a labor-intensive industry.
- Grammar. indicating increased emphasis or force. Certainly is an intensive adverb. Myself in I did it myself is an intensive pronoun.
noun
- something that intensifies.
- Grammar. an intensive element or formation, as -self in himself, or Latin -ō in iac-ō, “I hurl” from ō, “I throw.”
intensive
/ ɪˈɛԲɪ /
adjective
- involving the maximum use of land, time, or some other resource
an intensive course
intensive agriculture
- usually in combination using one factor of production proportionately more than others, as specified
labour-intensive
capital-intensive
- agriculture involving or farmed using large amounts of capital or labour to increase production from a particular area Compare extensive
- denoting or relating to a grammatical intensifier
- denoting or belonging to a class of pronouns used to emphasize a noun or personal pronoun, such as himself in the sentence John himself did it. In English, intensive pronouns are identical in form with reflexive pronouns
- of or relating to intension
- physics of or relating to a local property, measurement, etc, that is independent of the extent of the system Compare extensive
noun
- an intensifier or intensive pronoun or grammatical construction
Derived Forms
- ˈٱԲԱ, noun
- ˈٱԲ, adverb
Other 51Թ Forms
- ·ٱs· adverb
- ·ٱs·Ա noun
- ܲi·ٱs adjective
- un·ٱs· adverb
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of intensive1
Example Sentences
I am told a team of four UK negotiators are in "pretty intensive" conversation with their US counterparts – talking remotely, but willing to head to Washington if signing a deal appears imminent.
I am told a team of four UK negotiators are in "pretty intensive" conversation with their American counterparts – talking remotely, but willing to head to Washington if signing a deal appears imminent.
A spokesperson added: "We welcome the intensive efforts by the UK government to reach a deal with the US administration, and we continue to support this measured and pragmatic approach towards a mutually beneficial resolution."
The Maudsley Hospital, in South London, has an intensive specialist care programme for its sickest, most regularly relapsing bipolar patients.
"The US has commercial agriculture, while India relies on intensive, subsistence farming. It's a question of the livelihoods of millions of Indians versus the interests of US agribusiness."
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