Wiktionary:Word of the day/2024/July 19

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Word of the day
for July 19
intensive adj
  1. Done with intensity or to a great degree; thorough.
  2. Being made more intense.
  3. Making something more intense; intensifying.
    1. (agriculture, economics) Of agriculture: increasing the productivity of an area of land.
    2. (linguistics) Of a word: serving to give emphasis or force.
  4. Involving much activity in a short period of time; highly concentrated.
  5. Of or pertaining to innate or internal intensity or strength rather than outward extent.
  6. Chiefly suffixed to a noun: using something with intensity; requiring a great amount of something; demanding.
    1. (medicine) Chiefly in intensive care: of care or treatment: involving a great degree of life support, monitoring, and other forms of effort in order to manage life-threatening conditions.
  7. (obsolete)
    1. That can be intensified; allowing an increase of degree.
    2. Synonym of intense (“extreme or very high or strong in degree; of feelings, thoughts, etc.: strongly focused”)

intensive n

  1. 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.
  2. (education) A course taught intensively, involving much activity in a short period of time.
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