Usually means: Extremely strong or forceful; concentrated.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. intense: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. intense: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. intense: Collins English Dictionary
  4. intense: Vocabulary.com
  5. Intense, intense: Wordnik
  6. intense: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. intense: Wiktionary
  8. intense: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. intense: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. intense: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. intense: Dictionary.com
  12. intense: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. intense: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Intense: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Intense: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. intense: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. intense: Rhymezone
  18. intense, intense: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. intense: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. intense: Free Dictionary
  21. intense: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. intense: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  23. intense: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. intense: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  25. intense: Merriam-Webster.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Epicurus.com Cheese Glossary (No longer online)

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  1. intense: Legal dictionary

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  1. intense: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary (No longer online)
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  3. intense: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. intense: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Intense: Glossary of Cheese Terms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Of a characteristic: extreme or very high or strong in degree; severe; also, excessive.
adjective:  Of a thing: possessing some characteristic to an extreme or very high or strong degree.
adjective:  Of feelings, thoughts, etc.: strongly focused; ardent, deep, earnest, passionate.
adjective:  Of a person: very emotional or passionate.
adjective:  (also figurative) Under tension; tightly drawn; strained, stressed, tense.

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