intense
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
intense/ɪnˈtens/
▶adjective (intenser, intensest)
- 1 of extreme force, degree, or strength: intense concentration.
- 2 extremely earnest or serious: an intense young woman.
– derivatives
intensely adverb,
intenseness noun.
intensely adverb,
intenseness noun.
– origin ME: from OFr., or from L. intensus ‘stretched tightly, strained’, past part. of intendere (see intend).
usage: Intense and intensive are similar in meaning, but they differ in emphasis. Intense tends to relate to subjective or emotional responses while intensive tends to relate to objective descriptions. Thus, an intensive course simply describes a course that is designed to cover a great deal in a short time. On the other hand, in the course was intense, intense describes how someone felt about the course.
'intense' also found in these Oxford entries:
abate
- amplify
- assuage
- black hole
- blistering
- blitzkrieg
- bout
- charette
- clear
- climax
- collywobbles
- crisis
- crush
- cryosurgery
- cut-throat
- dampen
- deaden
- deep
- depth
- detestable
- detestation
- displacement
- ecstatic
- edge
- electrojet
- emotional
- emotive
- enrapture
- enthusiasm
- enthusiast
- enthusiastic
- escalate
- euphoria
- ferocious
- fervour
- fierce
- firebrick
- firestorm
- fit
- flame
- flare
- flare star
- flash burn
- flashgun
- flashover
- flush
- fray
- fright
- fuel
- full
