intensive

Done with intensity or to a great degree; thorough.

• Secondly, I continue to base my concepts on intensive study of a limited suite of collections, rather than superficial study of every packet that comes to hand.

Being made more intense.

Making something more intense; intensifying.; Of agriculture: increasing the productivity of an area of land.

Making something more intense; intensifying.; Of a word: serving to give emphasis or force.

• an intensive verb or preposition

Involving much activity in a short period of time; highly concentrated.

• I took a three-day intensive course in finance.

Of or pertaining to innate or internal intensity or strength rather than outward extent.

Chiefly suffixed to a noun: using something with intensity; requiring a great amount of something; demanding.

• This job is difficult because it is so labour-intensive.

Chiefly suffixed to a noun: using something with intensity; requiring a great amount of something; demanding.; Chiefly in intensive care: of care or treatment: involving a great degree of life support, monitoring, and other forms of effort in order to manage life-threatening conditions.

• She was moved to the intensive-care unit of the hospital.

That can be intensified; allowing an increase of degree.obsolete

• As his [God's] Perfection is infinitely greater than the perfection of a Man, ſo it is infinitely greater than the perfection of an Angel; and vvere it not infinitely greater than the perfection of an Angel, it could not be infinitely great

Synonym of intense (“extreme or very high or strong in degree; of feelings, thoughts, etc.: strongly focused”).obsolete

• Faſcination is the povver and act of Imagination, intenſiue vpon other bodies, than the bodie of the Imaginant; […]

A thing which makes something more intense; specifically (linguistics), a form of a word with a more forceful or stronger sense than the root on which it is built.

A course taught intensively, involving much activity in a short period of time.

• Beginning in 2014, ETSI [the Emory-Tibet Science Initiative] embarked on a six-year implementation phase at three monastic universities (Sera, Ganden, and Drepung). This program is composed of summer intensives taught by faculty from Emory