intensest

Adjective

intense (comparative intenser or more intense, superlative intensest or most intense)

1. Of a characteristic: extreme or very high or strong in degree; severe; also, excessive, towering.
   • Nor was I yet able to passe through any of the narrower streets, but kept the widest; the ground and air, smoake and fiery vapour, continu'd so intense that my haire was almost sing'd, and my feete unsufferably surbated.1666 September 16 (Gregorian calendar), John Evelyn, “[Diary entry for 7 September 1666]”, in William Bray, editor, Memoirs, Illustrative of the Life and Writings of John Evelyn, […], 2nd edition...

   Synonyms:

   maximal, ultimate, utmost, violent, extreme, ferocious, exquisite, almighty, greatest, highest

2. Of a thing: possessing some characteristic to an extreme or very high or strong degree.
   • [T]h' intense atom glows / A moment, then is quenched in a most cold repose.1821, Percy B[ysshe] Shelley, Adonais: An Elegy on the Death of John Keats, […], Pisa, Italy: […] Didot; reprinted London: Noel Douglas […], 1927, →OCLC, stanza XX, page 13

   Synonyms:

   hot

3. Of feelings, thoughts, etc.: strongly focused; ardent, deep, earnest, passionate.
   • intense study
4. Of a person: very emotional or passionate.
   • The artist was a small, intense man with piercing blue eyes.
5. (also, figuratively) Under tension; tightly drawn; strained, stressed, tense.