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intensitive

intensitive adjective: increasing the force or intensity of; intensive.

Adjective

intensitive (comparative more intensitive, superlative most intensitive)

  1. Increasing the force or intensity of; intensive.
    • 'un-' is a prefix to nouns, adjectives, and secondary adverbs, and is generally purely negative, though sometimes intensitive in the sense of 'bad': […]1891, Henry Sweet, A New English Grammar

Forms of intensitive

comparativemore intensitive
superlativemost intensitive

Questions about intensitive

What does intensitive mean?
Intensitive means increasing the force or intensity of; intensive.
What part of speech is intensitive?
Intensitive is an adjective.

Words near intensitive in the dictionary

  1. intensionalities
  2. intensionality
  3. intensionally
  4. intensions
  5. intensities
  6. intensitive
  7. intensitometry
  8. intensity
  9. intensive
  10. intensive agriculture
  11. intensive animal farming

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