intensive

Meaning

Adj

1. Done with intensity or to a great degree; thorough.
2. Being made more intense.
3. Making something more intense; intensifying.
4. Making something more intense; intensifying.
5. Involving much activity in a short period of time; highly concentrated.
6. Of or pertaining to innate or internal intensity or strength rather than outward extent.
7. Chiefly suffixed to a noun: using something with intensity; requiring a great amount of something; demanding.
8. Chiefly suffixed to a noun: using something with intensity; requiring a great amount of something; demanding.
9. (obsolete) That can be intensified; allowing an increase of degree.
10. (obsolete) Synonym of intense (“extreme or very high or strong in degree; of feelings, thoughts, etc.: strongly focused”).

Noun

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. A course taught intensively, involving much activity in a short period of time.

Opposite of

unintensive, nonintensive, superficial, extensive

Synonyms

intense

concentrated

acute

strong

dense

intensifier

burdensome

busy

close-packed

close packing

compact

compaction

comprehensive

compressed

compression

concise

condensed

confirmative

confirmatory

confirming

corroborant

corroborative

corroboratory

detailed

excessive

exigent

extreme

greater

high

intensifying

more

nervous

oppressive

poignant

powerful

reinforced

saturated

staving

strained

strenuous

substantiating

substantiative

summarize

superlative

taut

tense

thick

tight

unforeseen

uptight

Translations

intensif

intensivo

intensivo

intensiv

intensief

εντατικός

sterk

intensiu

intens

intensivo

fel

intense

intenso

intenso

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ɪnˈtɛnsɪv/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: intensive

Cognate with French: intensif

In summary

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. Intensif is from Medieval Latin intēnsīvus, from Latin intēnsus (“attentive; eager, intent; intensive”) + -īvus (suffix forming adjectives with the sense ‘doing; related to doing’); and intēnsus is the perfect passive participle of intendō (“to stretch out, strain”), from in- (prefix meaning ‘to, towards’) + tendō (“to extend, stretch, stretch out”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *tend- (“to extend, stretch”)). Doublet of intend.
The noun is derived from the adjective.

Sentences

Those make it very cost intensive for a lot of families to settle in Enghien.