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intensive

/ɪnˈtɛnsɪv/

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What does intensive mean?

adjective

  1. Done with intensity or to a great degree; thorough.
  2. Being made more intense.
  3. Of agriculture: increasing the productivity of an area of land.
More meanings (9)

adjective

  1. Of a word: serving to give emphasis or force.
  2. Involving much activity in a short period of time; highly concentrated.
  3. Of or pertaining to innate or internal intensity or strength rather than outward extent.
  4. Chiefly suffixed to a noun: using something with intensity; requiring a great amount of something; demanding.
  5. 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.
  6. (obsolete) That can be intensified; allowing an increase of degree.
  7. (obsolete) Synonym of intense (“extreme or very high or strong in degree; of feelings, thoughts, etc.: strongly focused”).

noun

  1. 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.
  2. A course taught intensively, involving much activity in a short period of time.

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Despite limited natural resources, Israel has developed its agriculture and industry sectors on an intensive scale over the past 20 years.
United States. Central Intelligence AgencyThe 1990 CIA World FactbookProject Gutenberg ebook #14
Finally, it remains to be said that it is doubtful wisdom to attempt to grow the more intensive crops on dry-farms.
John Andreas WidtsoeDry-Farming : A System of Agriculture for Countries under a Low RainfallProject Gutenberg ebook #4924
More book examples (3)
"Intensive," thorough tillage and care of the soil will probably pay as well here as at any point in the United States.
Bolton HallThree Acres and LibertyProject Gutenberg ebook #4509
For example, suppose you've got a a 4-foot-wide intensive bed holding seven rows of broccoli on 12 inch centers, or about 21 plants.
Steve SolomonGardening without irrigation : $b or without much, anywayProject Gutenberg ebook #4512
After six months' ineffectual resting at home, she entered a special hospital where, after some weeks of intensive treatment, her physical restoration was remarkable.
Robert S. (Robert Sproul) CarrollOur Nervous Friends — Illustrating the Mastery of NervousnessProject Gutenberg ebook #5994