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What does the word intensive mean?

    Part of speech: noun

  • INTENSIVENESS.

    • Part of speech: adverb

  • Intensively.

    • Part of speech: adjective

  • Serving to intensify; through.

Usage examples for intensive

  1. I beg you to be so kind as to excuse me for delaying so long in answering your letter- a delay caused by the work that we give to the intensive effort toward the production of war material. – A Journey Through France in War Time by Joseph G. Butler, Jr.
  2. Life then was austere, and morality was intensive rather than extensive. – Roman Women Woman: In All Ages and in All Countries, Volume 2 (of 10) by Alfred Brittain
  3. All this is given only as a matter of history; as a record of our progress in space and ballistic missile fields in no more than four years of intensive effort. – Complete State of the Union Addresses from 1790 to the Present by Various