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| 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" |
| adj. | 2. intensive | characterized by a high degree or intensity; often used as a combining form.; "the questioning was intensive"; "intensive care"; "research-intensive"; "a labor-intensive industry" |
| ~ intense | possessing or displaying a distinctive feature to a heightened degree.; "intense heat"; "intense anxiety"; "intense desire"; "intense emotion"; "the skunk's intense acrid odor"; "intense pain"; "enemy fire was intense" |
| adj. (pertain) | 3. intensive | tending to give force or emphasis.; "an intensive adverb" |
| adj. | 4. intensive | of agriculture; intended to increase productivity of a fixed area by expending more capital and labor.; "intensive agriculture"; "intensive conditions" |
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