intensitive

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English[edit]

Adjective[edit]

intensitive (comparative more intensitive, superlative most intensitive)

  1. Increasing the force or intensity of; intensive.
    • 1891, Henry Sweet, A New English Grammar:
      'un-' is a prefix to nouns, adjectives, and secondary adverbs, and is generally purely negative, though sometimes intensitive in the sense of 'bad': […]
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