intensive

1. 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
   is a type of: modifier, qualifier - a content word that qualifies the meaning of a noun or verb
   same as: intensifier

1. Characterized by a high degree or intensity;
   Often used as a combining form (synset 301516027)
   "the questioning was intensive"; "intensive care"; "research-intensive"; "a labor-intensive industry"
   similar to: intense - possessing or displaying a distinctive feature to a heightened degree
2. Tending to give force or emphasis (synset 302870030)
   "an intensive adverb"
3. Of agriculture;
   Intended to increase productivity of a fixed area by expending more capital and labor (synset 301518457)
   "intensive agriculture"; "intensive conditions"

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