intensive

Meanings

Adjective

• Thorough; to a great degree; with intensity.
• Demanding; requiring a great amount of work etc.
• Highly concentrated.
• Stretched; allowing intension, or increase of degree; that can be intensified.
• Characterized by persistence; intent; assiduous.
• Serving to give force or emphasis.
• Related to the need to manage life-threatening conditions by means of sophisticated life support and monitoring.

Noun

• Form of a word with a stronger or more forceful sense than the root on which the intensive is built.

Origin

• Borrowed from Middle French intensif, from Medieval Latin intensivus, from Latin intensus, from intendere; related to intend.