intense.
Of a characteristic: extreme or very high or strong in degree; severe; also, excessive, towering.
Meaning & usage
Of a characteristic: extreme or very high or strong in degree; severe; also, excessive, towering.
Of a thing: possessing some characteristic to an extreme or very high or strong degree.
Of feelings, thoughts, etc.: strongly focused; ardent, deep, earnest, passionate.
intense study
intense thought
Of a person: very emotional or passionate.
The artist was a small, intense man with piercing blue eyes.
Under tension; tightly drawn; strained, stressed, tense.
Where this word comes from
From Late Middle English intens, intense (“ardent, fervent; extreme, great, intense”), borrowed from Old French intense (modern French intense), or directly from its etymon Latin intēnsus (“strained, stretched tight; intense; attentive; violent; (rare) eager, intent”), the perfect passive participle of intendō (“to stretch out, strain”), from in- (prefix meaning ‘in, inside, within’) + tendō (“to extend, stretch”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *tend- (“to extend, stretch”)).
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