intense

EnglishEdit

Borrowed from Middle French intense, from Latin intensus (“stretched tight”), past participle of intendere (“to stretch out”), from in (“in, upon, to”) + tendere (“to stretch”).

intense (comparative intenser or more intense, superlative intensest or most intense)

Strained; tightly drawn.
Strict, very close or earnest.
intense study; intense thought
- 1828, [Edward Bulwer-Lytton], chapter XX, in Pelham; or, The Adventures of a Gentleman. [...] In Three Volumes, volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], OCLC 729841413, page 196:
  I rose by candle-light, and consumed, in the intensest application, the hours which every other individual of our party wasted in enervating slumbers, from the hesternal dissipation or debauch.
Extreme in degree; excessive.
Extreme in size or strength.
- 1817 December, Percy Bysshe Shelley, “The Revolt of Islam. […]”, in [Mary] Shelley, editor, The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley. […], volume I, London: Edward Moxon […], published 1839, OCLC 1000449192, page 207:
  And the bright air o’er every shape did weave
  Intenser hues, so that the herbless stone,
  The leafless bough among the leaves alone,
  Had being clearer than its own could be […]
- 2013 June 29, “High and wet”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, page 28:
  Floods in northern India, mostly in the small state of Uttarakhand, have wrought disaster on an enormous scale. The early, intense onset of the monsoon on June 14th swelled rivers, washing away roads, bridges, hotels and even whole villages.
Stressful and tiring.
Very severe.
Very emotional or passionate.
The artist was a small, intense man with piercing blue eyes.

strained; tightly drawn

extreme in degree

Arabic: شَدِيد‎ m (šadīd)
Azerbaijani: gərgin
Belarusian: please add this translation if you can
Bulgarian: интензивен (bg) (intenziven)
Catalan: intens (ca)
Finnish: ylenpalttinen (fi), hurja (fi), ääri-, yletön (fi), huima, huikea (fi), kova (fi), raju (fi)
Galician: intenso (gl) m
Greek:
Ancient: σφοδρός (sphodrós), σύντονος (súntonos)
Irish: dian, dian-, tréan-, an-
Italian: intenso (it)

Malay: amat
Maori: kitakita (of colour), tīwerawera (of noise, sound), mātaratara (of cold), ngoto (referring to emotions)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: intensiv

Nynorsk: intensiv
Portuguese: intenso (pt)
Romanian: intens (ro)
Sanskrit: दारुण (sa) (dāruṇa)
Spanish: intenso (es)