| intensifier | | |
| n. (communication) | 1. intensifier, intensive | a modifier that has little meaning except to intensify the meaning it modifies.; "`up' in `finished up' is an intensifier"; "`honestly' in `I honestly don't know' is an intensifier" |
| ~ modifier, qualifier | a content word that qualifies the meaning of a noun or verb. |
| ~ living | (informal) absolute.; "she is a living doll"; "scared the living daylights out of them"; "beat the living hell out of him" |
| ~ every last | (used as intensive) every.; "every last one of you" |
| ~ well | (used for emphasis or as an intensifier) entirely or fully.; "a book well worth reading"; "was well aware of the difficulties ahead"; "suspected only too well what might be going on" |
| ~ all-fired, bloody, damn | extremely.; "you are bloody right"; "Why are you so all-fired aggressive?" |
| ~ mighty, powerful, mightily, right | (Southern regional intensive) very; to a great degree.; "the baby is mighty cute"; "he's mighty tired"; "it is powerful humid"; "that boy is powerful big now"; "they have a right nice place"; "they rejoiced mightily" |
| ~ in truth, really, truly | in fact (used as intensifiers or sentence modifiers).; "in truth, moral decay hastened the decline of the Roman Empire"; "really, you shouldn't have done it"; "a truly awful book" |
| ~ deucedly, deadly, insanely, devilishly, madly | (used as intensives) extremely.; "she was madly in love"; "deadly dull"; "deadly earnest"; "deucedly clever"; "insanely jealous" |
| ~ downright | thoroughgoing.; "he is outright dishonest" |
| ~ literally | (intensifier before a figurative expression) without exaggeration.; "our eyes were literally pinned to TV during the Gulf War" |
| ~ most | very.; "a most welcome relief" |
| ~ hellishly, infernally | extremely.; "infernally clever"; "hellishly dangerous" |
| ~ so | to a very great extent or degree.; "the idea is so obvious"; "never been so happy"; "I love you so"; "my head aches so!" |
| ~ such | to so extreme a degree.; "he is such a baby"; "Such rich people!" |
| ~ positively | extremely.; "it was positively monumental" |
| ~ marvellously, marvelously, superbly, terrifically, toppingly, wonderfully, wondrous, wondrously | (used as an intensifier) extremely well.; "her voice is superbly disciplined"; "the colors changed wondrously slowly" |
| ~ ever so, ever | (intensifier for adjectives) very.; "she was ever so friendly" |
| ~ simply, just | absolutely.; "I just can't take it anymore"; "he was just grand as Romeo"; "it's simply beautiful!" |
| ~ candidly, frankly, honestly | (used as intensives reflecting the speaker's attitude) it is sincerely the case that.; "honestly, I don't believe it"; "candidly, I think she doesn't have a conscience"; "frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn" |
| ~ goddam, goddamn, goddamned | extremely.; "you are goddamn right!" |
| ~ precious, preciously | extremely.; "there is precious little time left" |
| weighty | | |
| adj. | 1. weighty | having relatively great weight; heavy.; "a weighty load"; "a weighty package" |
| adj. | 2. cogent, telling, weighty | powerfully persuasive.; "a cogent argument"; "a telling presentation"; "a weighty argument" |
| ~ persuasive | intended or having the power to induce action or belief.; "persuasive eloquence"; "a most persuasive speaker"; "a persuasive argument" |
| adj. | 3. grave, grievous, heavy, weighty | of great gravity or crucial import; requiring serious thought.; "grave responsibilities"; "faced a grave decision in a time of crisis"; "a grievous fault"; "heavy matters of state"; "the weighty matters to be discussed at the peace conference" |
| ~ important, of import | of great significance or value.; "important people"; "the important questions of the day" |
| adj. | 4. weighty | weighing heavily on the spirit; causing anxiety or worry.; "weighty problems" |
| ~ heavy | marked by great psychological weight; weighted down especially with sadness or troubles or weariness.; "a heavy heart"; "a heavy schedule"; "heavy news"; "a heavy silence"; "heavy eyelids" |
| adj. | 5. corpulent, obese, rotund, weighty | excessively fat.; "a weighty man" |
| ~ fat | having an (over)abundance of flesh.; "he hadn't remembered how fat she was" |
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