intense

Comparative

intenser

Superlative

intensest

1. 1.Of a characteristic: extreme or very high or strong in degree; severe; also, excessive, towering.

   • Nor was I yet able to passe through any of the narrower streets, but kept the widest; the ground and air, smoake and fiery vapour, continu'd so intense that my haire was almost sing'd, and my feete unsufferably surbated.

2. 2.Of a thing: possessing some characteristic to an extreme or very high or strong degree.

   • As the night came on the yellow stars grew more intense overhead, but the lambent glow in the north did not pale.

3. 3.Of feelings, thoughts, etc.: strongly focused; ardent, deep, earnest, passionate.

   • That intense patriotism which is peculiar to the members of societies congregated within a narrow space was, in such circumstances, strongly developed.
   • And the strange sensation became still stranger within her, intenser in its two constituent parts: intenser in pride, intenser in compassionate love, that of a mistress and a mother in one.
   • I rose by candle-light, and consumed, in the intensest application, the hours which every other individual of our party wasted in enervating slumbers, from the hesternal dissipation or debauch.

4. 4.Of a person: very emotional or passionate.

   • The artist was a small, intense man with piercing blue eyes.
   • Fair Æsthetic (suddenly, and in deepest tones, to Smith, who has just been introduced to take her in to Dinner). "Are you Intense?"

Overall

Uncommon· #2766

By learning goal

Everyday conversation

Rare

General reading & writing

Uncommon

Academic

Rare

Literature

Rare

Antonyms

• mild

Word family

• intensity