单词 | intensive |
释义 | intensive (once / 2402 pages) 1adj 2nadj Intensive describes things that are extreme, highly dramatic, or just plain thorough. An intensive chemistry course meets six days a week for five hours a day. If you're in intensive care, you're getting close medical scrutiny, 24/7. Intensive is intense, which comes from the Latin for “high strung,” plus –ive, meaning “having the qualities of.” It’s an adjective that cranks up whatever it modifies. Doing too many intensive activities can make you high strung indeed, like taking that intensive chemistry class or participating in an intensive study on the effects of sleeplessness by staying awake for four days straight. That might get you put in intensive care. WORD FAMILYintensive: intensiveness, intensives USAGE EXAMPLESWithin 24 hours, Quinlan was whisked away from their hospital to an intensive care unit at a nearby medical university. Washington Post(Dec 30, 2016) That summer, Erik completed an intensive treatment program that included frequent drug testing. Washington Times(Jan 02, 2017) The occurrence rate was dramatically higher in intensive care units and neonatal wards, the body said. The Guardian(Jan 01, 2017) 1 1adj characterized by a high degree or intensity; often used as a combining form the questioning was intensive intensive care research- intensive a labor- intensive industry Syn intense possessing or displaying a distinctive feature to a heightened degree 2adj of agriculture; intended to increase productivity of a fixed area by expending more capital and labor 2intensive agriculture intensive conditions Ant extensive of agriculture; increasing productivity by using large areas with minimal outlay and labor 1n a modifier that has little meaning except to intensify the meaning it modifies Syn|Hyper intensifier modifier, qualifier a content word that qualifies the meaning of a noun or verb 2adj tending to give force or emphasis an intensive adverb |
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