intensive
Done with intensity or to a great degree; thorough.
Adjective 4 meanings
Done with intensity or to a great degree; thorough.
Being made more intense.
Making something more intense; intensifying.
Involving much activity in a short period of time; highly concentrated.
“I took a three-day intensive course in finance.”
Noun 2 meanings
A thing which makes something more intense; specifically (linguistics), a form of a word with a more forceful or stronger sense than the root on which it is built.
A course taught intensively, involving much activity in a short period of time.
Etymology
The adjective is derived from Late Middle English intensive (“fervent, great, intense”), borrowed from Old French intensif, intensive (modern French intensif) + Middle English -ive (suffix meaning ‘of the nature of, relating to’ forming adjectives), equivalent to intense + -ive.
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INTENSIVE at a glance
INTENSIVE has 9 letters and scores 12 points in Scrabble (I 1 + N 1 + T 1 + E 1 + N 1 + S 1 + I 1 + V 4 + E 1) and 15 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #6,383 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
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