intensive

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   tending to give force or emphasis

   an intensive adverb

2. 2
   adj

   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.

3. 3
   adj

   Involving much activity in a short period of time; highly concentrated.

   I took a three-day intensive course in finance.

4. 4
   adj

   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.

5. 5
   adj

   That can be intensified; allowing an increase of degree.

   As his [God's] Perfection is infinitely greater than the perfection of a Man, ſo it is infinitely greater than the perfection of an Angel; and vvere it not infinitely greater than the perfection of an Angel, it could not be infinitely greater than the perfection of a Man, becauſe the intenſive diſtance betvveen the perfection of an Angel and of a Man is but finite: […]

6. 6
   adj

   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; […]

7. 7
   noun

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

   Beginning in 2014, ETSI [the Emory-Tibet Science Initiative] embarked on a six-year implementation phase at three monastic universities (Sera, Ganden, and Drepung). This program is composed of summer intensives taught by faculty from Emory and other institutions, year-round study led by on-site instructors, translation and production of bilingual textbooks and instructional videos, and further curriculum refinement.

8. 8
   adj

   characterized by a high degree or intensity

Etymology

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…