intensifier
Noun
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A modifier that has little meaning except to intensify the meaning it modifies (synset 106332047)
"`up' in `finished up' is an intensifier"; "`honestly' in `I honestly don't know' is an intensifier"domain member usage:
- living - (informal) absolute
- every last - (used as intensive) every
- well - (used for emphasis or as an intensifier) entirely or fully
- all-fired, all-firedly, bloody, damn - extremely
- mightily, mighty, powerful, right - (Southern regional intensive) very; to a great degree
- in truth, really, truly - in fact (used as intensifiers or sentence modifiers)
- deadly, deucedly, devilishly, insanely, madly - (used as intensives) extremely
- downright - thoroughgoing
- literally - (intensifier before a figurative expression) without exaggeration
- most - very
- hellishly, infernally - extremely
- so - to a very great extent or degree
- such - to so extreme a degree
- positively - extremely
- marvellously, marvelously, superbly, terrifically, toppingly, wonderfully, wondrous, wondrously - (used as an intensifier) extremely well
- ever, ever so - (intensifier for adjectives) very
- just, simply - (used for emphasis) absolutely
- candidly, frankly, honestly - (used as intensives reflecting the speaker's attitude) it is sincerely the case that
- goddam, goddamn, goddamned - extremely
- precious, preciously - extremely
same as: intensive
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