Usually means: Concentrated in degree or effort.
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We found 34 dictionaries that define the word intensive:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. intensive: Merriam-Webster
  2. intensive: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. intensive: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. intensive: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Intensive, intensive: Wordnik
  6. intensive: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. intensive: Wiktionary
  8. -intensive, intensive: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. intensive: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. intensive: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. intensive: Dictionary.com
  12. intensive: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  13. Intensive: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Intensive: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. intensive: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. intensive: Rhymezone
  17. intensive: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. intensive: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. intensive: FreeDictionary.org
  20. intensive: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. intensive: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. intensive: Vocabulary.com
  23. intensive: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Intensive: Deardorff's Glossary of International Economics
  2. intensive: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. intensive: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. intensive: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. intensive: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Encyclopedia of Graphic Symbols (No longer online)

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Scientology® and Dianetics® (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. intensive: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Done with intensity or to a great degree; thorough.
adjective:  Being made more intense.
adjective:  Making something more intense; intensifying.
adjective:  (agriculture, economics) Of agriculture: increasing the productivity of an area of land.
adjective:  (linguistics) Of a word: serving to give emphasis or force.
adjective:  Involving much activity in a short period of time; highly concentrated.
adjective:  Of or pertaining to innate or internal intensity or strength rather than outward extent.
adjective:  Chiefly suffixed to a noun: using something with intensity; requiring a great amount of something; demanding.
adjective:  (medicine) 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.
adjective:  (obsolete)
adjective:  That can be intensified; allowing an increase of degree.
adjective:  Synonym of intense (“extreme or very high or strong in degree; of feelings, thoughts, etc.: strongly focused”)
noun:  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.
noun:  (education) A course taught intensively, involving much activity in a short period of time.

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