intensive

CEFRC1

/ɪnˈtɛnsɪv/

adjective

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  1. 01

    adjective

    Involving a lot of effort, activity, or attention in a short time.

  2. 02

    adjective

    Extra detail

    Being made more intense.

Examples

  • Extensive reading is as important as intensive reading.

  • The intensive course did wonders for my French.

At a glance

Sits at C1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
1
Citations
5
Synonyms
1

Deep Dive

adjective

Extra meanings

  1. Making something more intense; intensifying., Of agriculture: increasing the productivity of an area of land.

  2. Done with intensity or to a great degree; thorough.

  3. Making something more intense; intensifying.

More examples

In context

  • I took a three-day intensive course in finance.

  • This job is difficult because it is so labour-intensive.

  • an intensive verb or preposition

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Origin

adjective

The adjective is derived from Late Middle English intensive (“fervent, great, intense”), borrowed from Old French intensif, intensive (modern French intensif) + Middle English -ive (suffix meaning ‘of the nature of, relating to’ forming adjectives), equivalent to intense + -ive. Intensif is from Medieval Latin intēnsīvus, from Latin intēnsus (“attentive; eager, intent; intensive”) + -īvus (suffix forming adjectives with the sense ‘doing; related to doing’); and intēnsus is the perfect passive participle of intendō (“to stretch out, strain”), from in- (prefix meaning ‘to, towards’) + tendō (“to extend, stretch, stretch out”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *tend- (“to extend, stretch”))...