intense or intensive

If you are putting forth an intense effort, your work is “intense”: “Myintense study of Plato convinced me that I would make a good leader.”But when the intensity stems not so much from your effort as it does fromoutside forces, the usual word is “intensive”: “the village enduredintensive bombing.”

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Definitions

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• a  possessing or displaying a distinctive feature to a heightened degree
  intense heat
  intense anxiety
  intense desire
  intense emotion
  the skunk's intense acrid odor
  intense pain
  enemy fire was intense
• s  extremely sharp or intense
  intense itching and burning
• s  (of color) having the highest saturation
  intense blue

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• n  a modifier that has little meaning except to intensify the meaning it modifies
• s  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
• a  tending to give force or emphasis
  an intensive adverb
• a  of agriculture; intended to increase productivity of a fixed area by expending more capital and labor
  intensive agriculture
  intensive conditions

News & Articles

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• Intense line of storms moves into Ohio and West Virginia
    An intense line of thunderstorms with a history of producing damaging wind continues to move south and east into southern Ohio and West Virginia.
  June 12, 2013 - WOWK-TV West Virginia
• Intense line of storms moves into Ohio and West Virginia
    An intense line of thunderstorms with a history of producing damaging wind continues to move south and east into southern Ohio and West Virginia.
  June 12, 2013 - WOWK-TV West Virginia
• CDC: Intense heat, weather to stick around
  Whether you believe that climate change is real or not, the fact remains that the summers are getting hotter and the storms are more intense.
  June 11, 2013 - WTOP Radio Washington, DC

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• Multidisciplinary initiative reduces airway infection in pediatric intensive care patients
  ( Nationwide Children's Hospital ) An initiative that combines a multidisciplinary health care approach with a range of preventive measures could cut the rate of a common airway infection among children in intensive care by more than half, a new study suggests. The research, led by a team at Nationwide Children's Hospital, appears in the June issue of the journal Pediatric Critical Care Medicine.
  June 17, 2013 - EurekAlert!
• Intensive entrepreneurship program coming to Jackson this fall
  An intensive entrepreneurship program is coming to Jackson this fall to help jump-start aspiring entrepreneurs and to encourage Wyoming’s economic growth and diversification.
  June 15, 2013 - Casper Star-Tribune
• Man in intensive care after alleged felony assault
  A 19-year-old Mill Valley man is in intensive care with major head injuries after being struck with a bottle during an early Sunday morning fight on Alta Vista Avenue.
  June 13, 2013 - Mill Valley Herald