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Intense

//ɪnˈtɛns// adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Of a characteristic: extreme or very high or strong in degree; severe; also, excessive, towering.

    "Nor was I yet able to passe through any of the narrower streets, but kept the widest; the ground and air, smoake and fiery vapour, continu'd so intense that my haire was almost sing'd, and my feete unsufferably surbated."

  2. 2
    Of a thing: possessing some characteristic to an extreme or very high or strong degree.

    "[T]h' intense atom glows / A moment, then is quenched in a most cold repose."

  3. 3
    Of feelings, thoughts, etc.: strongly focused; ardent, deep, earnest, passionate.

    "intense study"

  4. 4
    Of a person: very emotional or passionate.

    "The artist was a small, intense man with piercing blue eyes."

  5. 5
    Under tension; tightly drawn; strained, stressed, tense. also, figuratively
Adjective
  1. 1
    (of color) having the highest saturation wordnet
  2. 2
    extremely sharp or severe wordnet
  3. 3
    possessing or displaying a distinctive feature to a heightened degree wordnet

Etymology

From Late Middle English intens, intense (“ardent, fervent; extreme, great, intense”), borrowed from Old French intense (modern French intense), or directly from its etymon Latin intēnsus (“strained, stretched tight; intense; attentive; violent; (rare) eager, intent”), the perfect passive participle of intendō (“to stretch out, strain”), from in- (prefix meaning ‘in, inside, within’) + tendō (“to extend, stretch”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *tend- (“to extend, stretch”)).

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