| 释义 |
WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024in•ten•sive /ɪnˈtɛnsɪv/USA pronunciation adj. - of or characterized by intensity:The witness had to undergo intensive questioning.
- This word is used after nouns and other roots to mean "requiring or having a high amount or concentration of'' the quality or element mentioned:labor-intensive (= requiring a high amount of labor).
- Grammar(of a grammatical form or construction) showing increased emphasis or force:The adverb certainly is an intensive adverb. In the sentence I did it myself the pronoun myself is an intensive pronoun but in the sentence I hurt myself the word myself is a reflexive pronoun.
n. [countable] - Grammaran intensive form or construction.
in•ten•sive•ly, adv. in•ten•sive•ness, n. [uncountable]See -tend-. WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024in•ten•sive (in ten′siv),USA pronunciation adj. - of, pertaining to, or characterized by intensity:intensive questioning.
- tending to intensify;
intensifying. - Medicine
- increasing in intensity or degree.
- instituting treatment to the limit of safety.
- noting or pertaining to a system of agriculture involving the cultivation of limited areas, and relying on the maximum use of labor and expenditures to raise the crop yield per unit area (opposed to extensive).
- requiring or having a high concentration of a specified quality or element (used in combination):Coal mining is a labor-intensive industry.
- Grammarindicating increased emphasis or force. Certainly is an intensive adverb. Myself in I did it myself is an intensive pronoun.
n. - something that intensifies.
- Grammaran intensive element or formation, as -self in himself, or Latin -tō in iac-tō, "I hurl'' from iacō, "I throw.''
- Medieval Latin intēnsīvus. See intense, -ive
- late Middle English 1400–50
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: intensive /ɪnˈtɛnsɪv/ adj - involving the maximum use of land, time, or some other resource: intensive agriculture, an intensive course
- (usually in combination) using one factor of production proportionately more than others, as specified: capital-intensive, labour-intensive
- involving or farmed using large amounts of capital or labour to increase production from a particular area
Compare extensive - denoting or relating to a grammatical intensifier
- denoting or belonging to a class of pronouns used to emphasize a noun or personal pronoun, such as himself in the sentence John himself did it. In English, intensive pronouns are identical in form with reflexive pronouns
- of or relating to intension
n - an intensifier or intensive pronoun or grammatical construction
inˈtensively adv inˈtensiveness n |