intense
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EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
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”).
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AdjectiveEdit
intense (comparative intenser or more intense, superlative intensest or most intense)
- Strained; tightly drawn.
- Strict, very close or earnest.
- intense study; intense thought
- Extreme in degree; excessive.
- Extreme in size or strength.
- 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.
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TranslationsEdit
strained; tightly drawn
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extreme in degree
Further readingEdit
- intense in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- intense in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- intense at OneLook Dictionary Search
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EtymologyEdit
From Middle French intense. Ultimately from Latin intensus.
PronunciationEdit
AdjectiveEdit
intense (plural intenses)
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Further readingEdit
- “intense” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).