Word Meanings - INTENSE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

to stretch: cf. F. intense. See Intend, and cf. Intent, and cf. 1. Strained; tightly drawn; kept on the stretch; strict; very close or earnest; as, intense study or application; intense thought. 2. Extreme in degree; excessive; immoderate; as:

Additional info about word: INTENSE

to stretch: cf. F. intense. See Intend, and cf. Intent, and cf. 1. Strained; tightly drawn; kept on the stretch; strict; very close or earnest; as, intense study or application; intense thought. 2. Extreme in degree; excessive; immoderate; as: Ardent; fervent; as, intense heat. Keen; biting; as, intense cold. Vehement; earnest; exceedingly strong; as, intense passion or hate. Very severe; violent; as, intense pain or anguish. Deep; strong; brilliant; as, intense color or light. In this intense seclusion of the forest. Hawthorne.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of INTENSE)

• Bitter
• Harsh
• sour
• sharp
• tart
• acrimonious
• sarcastic
• severe
• sad
• afflictive
• intense
• stinging
• pungent
• acrid
• cutting
• Deep
• Profound
• subterranean
• submerged
• designing
• abstruse
• recondite
• learned
• low
• sagacious
• penetrating
• thick
• obscure
• mysterious
• occult
• Intense
• heartfelt
• Earnest
• Eager
• serious
• intent
• determined
• strenuous
• solemn
• grave
• warm
• fervent
• ardent
• Exquisite
• Choice
• rare
• refined
• delicate
• perfect
• matchless
• consummate
• delicious
• Glowing
• Shining
• hot
• fiery
• fervid

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of INTENSE)

• Neglect
• drop
• interrupt
• nullify
• undo
• baffle
• frustrate
• mar
• defeat
• spoil
• Reveal
• make known
• discover

Related words: (words related to INTENSE)

• THICKENING
  Something put into a liquid or mass to make it thicker.
• SERIOUS
  1. Grave in manner or disposition; earnest; thoughtful; solemn; not light, gay, or volatile. He is always serious, yet there is about his manner a graceful ease. Macaulay. 2. Really intending what is said; being in earnest; not jesting
• CONSUMMATELY
  In a consummate manner; completely. T. Warton.
• GRAVES
  The sediment of melted tallow. Same as Greaves.
• OCCULTISM
  A certain Oriental system of theosophy. A. P. Sinnett.
• CHOICE
  1. Worthly of being chosen or preferred; select; superior; precious; valuable. My choicest hours of life are lost. Swift. 2. Preserving or using with care, as valuable; frugal; -- used with of; as, to be choice of time, or of money. 3. Selected
• SHINTIYAN; SHINTYAN
  A kind of wide loose drawers or trousers worn by women in Mohammedan countries.
• DESIGN
  drawing, dessein a plan or scheme; all, ultimately, from L. designare to designate; de- + signare to mark, mark out, signum mark, sign. See 1. To draw preliminary outline or main features of; to sketch for a pattern or model; to delineate; to trace
• BITTERWEED
  A species of Ambrosia ; Roman worm wood. Gray.
• STINGBULL
  The European greater weever fish , which is capable of inflicting severe wounds with the spinous rays of its dorsal fin. See Weever.
• GRAVEDIGGER
  See T (more info) 1. A digger of graves.
• INTENTIONALITY
  The quality or state of being intentional; purpose; design. Coleridge.
• SOLEMNIZATION
  The act of solemnizing; celebration; as, the solemnization of a marriage.
• STING RAY; STINGRAY
  Any one of numerous rays of the family Dasyatidæ, syn. Trygonidæ, having one or more large sharp barbed dorsal spines, on the whiplike tail, capable of inflicting severe wounds. Some species reach a large size, and some, esp., on the American
• THICK WIND
  A defect of respiration in a horse, that is unassociated with noise in breathing or with the signs of emphysema.
• SHINDLE
  A shingle; also, a slate for roofing. Holland.
• OCCULT
  Hidden from the eye or the understanding; inviable; secret; concealed; unknown. It is of an occult kind, and is so insensible in its advances as to escape observation. I. Taylor. Occult line , a line drawn as a part of the construction of a figure
• SHARPLY
  In a sharp manner,; keenly; acutely. They are more sharply to be chastised and reformed than the rude Irish. Spenser. The soldiers were sharply assailed with wants. Hayward. You contract your eye when you would see sharply. Bacon.
• SHINGLER
  1. One who shingles. 2. A machine for shingling puddled iron.
• OBSCURENESS
  Obscurity. Bp. Hall.
• SPILLET FISHING; SPILLIARD FISHING
  A system or method of fishing by means of a number of hooks set on snoods all on one line; -- in North America, called trawl fishing, bultow, or bultow fishing, and long-line fishing.
• CONTRADISTINGUISH
  To distinguish by a contrast of opposite qualities. These are our complex ideas of soul and body, as contradistinguished. Locke.
• WASTING
  Causing waste; also, undergoing waste; diminishing; as, a wasting disease; a wasting fortune. Wasting palsy , progressive muscular atrophy. See under Progressive.
• DISINTERESTING
  Uninteresting. "Disinteresting passages." Bp. Warburton.
• INDISTINGUISHABLE
  Not distinguishable; not capable of being perceived, known, or discriminated as separate and distinct; hence, not capable of being perceived or known; as, in the distance the flagship was indisguishable; the two copies were indisguishable in form
• PERSISTING
  Inclined to persist; tenacious of purpose; persistent. -- Per*sist"ing*ly, adv.
• EVERLASTINGLY
  In an everlasting manner.