Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: intensive
IPA transcription: [,ɪnt'ɛnsɪv]
Pronunciations of intensive
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adverb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: intensive
    Meaning: 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"
noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: intensifier, intensive
    Meaning: a modifier that has little meaning except to intensify the meaning it modifies; "`up' in `finished up' is an intensifier"; "`honestly' in `I honestly don't know' is an intensifier"
Usage examples
  • In the month of June, for example, there is really nothing which quite conjures up for the college youth of today a sense of the mutability and impermanence of this mortal life so much as the sight of a member of the class of 1875 after three days' intensive drinking.
  • She then came back, and going up to Virginia said, with an emphasis that revealed her intensive excitement of passion: "You can always remember that you have driven your grandmother out of your house in favor of a drunken woman;" then, without waiting for Virginia to reply, she turned again and went upstairs.
0. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Eastern Bloc, License CC BY-SA 4.0
1. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Island fox, License CC BY-SA 4.0
2. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Titan (moon), License CC BY-SA 4.0
3. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Jaguar, License CC BY-SA 4.0