intensive /ɪnˈtɛnsɪv/adjective 11noun 2forms 3 adjective11 •Done with intensity or to a great degree; thorough.Secondly, I continue to base my concepts on intensive study of a limited suite of collections, rather than superficial study of every packet that comes to hand. — 1992 •Involving much activity in a short period of time; highly concentrated.I took a three-day intensive course in finance. •Chiefly suffixed to a noun: using something with intensity; requiring a great amount of something; demanding.This job is difficult because it is so labour-intensive. •Chiefly in intensive care: of care or treatment: involving a great degree of life support, monitoring, and other forms of effort in order to manage life-threatening conditions.She was moved to the intensive-care unit of the hospital. •Of agriculture: increasing the productivity of an area of land. •Making something more intense; intensifying. •Of a word: serving to give emphasis or force.Aristophanes deriueth it [the word asp] from Alpha, an intensiue Particle, and Spizo vvhich signifieth to extend; either by reason of his sharpe-shrill hissing, or for the length of his body. — 1608 •Being made more intense. •Of or pertaining to innate or internal intensity or strength rather than outward extent. •(no longer used) Synonym of intense (“extreme or very high or strong in degree; of feelings, thoughts, etc.: strongly focused”).Fascination is the povver and act of Imagination, intensiue vpon other bodies, than the bodie of the Imaginant; […] — 1605 •(no longer used) That can be intensified; allowing an increase of degree. noun2 •A course taught intensively, involving much activity in a short period of time. •A thing which makes something more intense; specifically (linguistics), a form of a word with a more forceful or stronger sense than the root on which it is built. formsintensives · more intensive · most intensive