intense

1. Possessing or displaying a distinctive feature to a heightened degree (synset 301513206)
   "intense heat"; "intense anxiety"; "intense desire"; "intense emotion"; "the skunk's intense acrid odor"; "intense pain"; "enemy fire was intense"
   also:

   • immoderate - beyond reasonable limits
   • profound - showing intellectual penetration or emotional depth
   • intemperate - excessive in behavior
   tells us about: degree, grade, level - a position on a scale of intensity or amount or quality
   similar to:

   • aggravated - made more severe or intense especially in law
   • bad, big - very intense
   • blood-and-guts - marked by great zeal or violence
   • brutal, unrelenting - punishingly harsh
   • cold - so intense as to be almost uncontrollable
   • concentrated - intensely focused
   • consuming, overwhelming - very strong; urgently felt
   • deep - intense or extreme
   • exquisite, keen - intense or sharp
   • extreme, utmost, uttermost - of the greatest possible degree or extent or intensity
   • fierce, tearing, trigger-happy, vehement, violent - marked by extreme intensity of emotions or convictions; inclined to react violently; fervid
   • intensified - made more intense
   • intensive - characterized by a high degree or intensity; often used as a combining form
   • main - of force; of the greatest possible intensity
   • palpable - so intense as to be almost touched or felt
   • profound - of the greatest intensity; complete
   • raging - very severe
   • screaming - so extremely intense as to evoke screams
   • severe, terrible, wicked - intensely or extremely bad or unpleasant in degree or quality
   • shitless, witless - (used as complement) to the utmost degree
   • smart - painfully severe
   • strong - not faint or feeble
   • terrific - very great or intense
   • deep, thick - (of darkness) densely dark
   • unabated - continuing at full strength or intensity
   • violent, wild - (of colors or sounds) intensely vivid or loud
2. Extremely sharp or severe (synset 300806846)
   "acute pain"; "felt acute annoyance"; "intense itching and burning"
   similar to: sharp - keenly and painfully felt; as if caused by a sharp edge or point
   same as: acute
3. (of color) having the highest saturation (synset 300394744)
   "vivid green"; "intense blue"
   similar to: pure, saturated - (of color) being chromatically pure; not diluted with white or grey or black
   same as: vivid

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