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What is the adjective for intense?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verbs intensify and intensate which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

intensive
  1. Thorough, to a great degree, with intensity.
  2. Demanding, requiring a great amount.
  3. Highly concentrated.
  4. (obsolete) Stretched; allowing intension, or increase of degree; that can be intensified.
  5. Characterized by persistence; intent; assiduous.
  6. (grammar) Serving to give force or emphasis.
  7. (medicine) Related to the need to manage life-threatening conditions by means of sophisticated life support and monitoring.
  8. Synonyms:
      9. intense, fierce, acute, deep, heavy, profound, terrible, ferocious, vehement, dreadful, keen, violent, almighty, excruciating, vicious, blistering, hard, furious, explosive, frightful, hellacious, ghastly, exquisite, severe, fearsome, fearful, vigorous, serious, thorough, demanding, full, comprehensive, total, complete, exhaustive, thoroughgoing, accelerated, fast, radical, heavy-duty, in-depth, all-absorbing, all-embracing, all-inclusive, out-and-out, all-encompassing, high-pressure, speeded-up, extreme, strong … more
  9. Examples:
      10. “The specialist training required to be the best at the job does not come easily, with each animal having to undertake a rigorous 13-week intensive course.”
      “Now, there is a much more intensive effort at enforcing the rules that existed.”
intense
  1. Strained; tightly drawn.
  2. Strict, very close or earnest.
  3. Extreme in degree; excessive.
  4. Extreme in size or strength.
  5. Stressful and tiring.
  6. Very severe.
  7. Synonyms:
      8. fierce, acute, extreme, great, severe, deep, profound, harsh, powerful, concentrated, exquisite, intensive, serious, enormous, exceptional, extraordinary, strong, supreme, almighty, blistering, consuming, drastic, dreadful, excessive, excruciating, explosive, fearful, fearsome, ferocious, forceful, frightful, furious, ghastly, hard, heavy, heavy-duty, hellacious, high, keen, major, potent, terrible, vehement, vicious, vigorous, violent, agonising, agonizing, close, full … more
  8. Examples:
      9. “Shaquille would end up breaking the backboard after dunking the ball with intense force.”
      “Finn always looked intense whenever he wondered where Rey was, until he met Rose.”
      “And now there is an intense ache where he was, where he would have been in all these things.”
intensitive
  1. Increasing the force or intensity of; intensive.
intensative
  1. (archaic) Adding intensity; intensifying.
intensional
  1. Of or pertaining to intension.
  2. Examples:
      3. “Logics which attempt to display the logical properties of intensional contexts are called intensional logics.”
      “But there is what philosophers think of as an extensional and an intensional way of describing our perceptions.”
      “Deacon would argue that initially words are acquired as indices and only later do they gain intensional properties once symbol-symbol relations are established.”
intence
  1. Rare spelling of intense.
intenser
  1. comparative form of intense: more intense
  2. Synonyms:
      3. fiercer, acuter, extremer, greater, severer, deeper, harsher, powerfuller, seriouser, stronger, supremer, fearfuller, ghastlier, harder, heavier, higher, keener, terribler, viciouser, violenter, closer, fuller, tougher, bitterer, sharper, shriller, vivider, more profound, more concentrated, more exquisite, more intensive, more enormous, more exceptional, more extraordinary, more almighty, more blistering, more consuming, more drastic, more dreadful, more excessive, more excruciating, more explosive, more fearsome, more ferocious, more forceful, more frightful, more furious, more heavy-duty, more hellacious, more major … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “Far, blue hills, bluer and intenser than ever in the rain-washed atmosphere.”
      “This method gives an intenser taste of citrus fruit to the wine.”
      “Not mother, with her first-born on her knee, Thrills with intenser love than I for thee.”
intensest
  1. superlative form of intense: most intense
  2. Synonyms:
      3. fiercest, acutest, extremest, greatest, severest, deepest, harshest, powerfullest, seriousest, strongest, supremest, fearfullest, ghastliest, hardest, heaviest, highest, keenest, terriblest, viciousest, violentest, closest, fullest, toughest, bitterest, sharpest, shrillest, vividest, most profound, most concentrated, most exquisite, most intensive, most enormous, most exceptional, most extraordinary, most almighty, most blistering, most consuming, most drastic, most dreadful, most excessive, most excruciating, most explosive, most fearsome, most ferocious, most forceful, most frightful, most furious, most heavy-duty, most hellacious, most major … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “His language was strikingly beautiful, and his tones musical with intensest feeling.”
      “Intensest love and intensest hate can, at the same moment, intertwine their fibres in inextricable blending.”
      “I walked slowly, for I was almost exhausted, as well as lame, and I felt the intensest wretchedness for the horrible death of little Weena.”
intensified
  1. simple past tense and past participle of intensify
  2. Synonyms:
      3. increased, enhanced, exacerbated, aggravated, intensated, deepened, exaggerated, escalated, heightened, magnified, worsened, hastened, quickened, made worse, set off, boosted, strengthened, raised, concentrated, extended, sharpened, reinforced, amplified, widened, augmented, stepped up, festered, compounded, redoubled, broadened, accentuated, consolidated, built up, expanded, emphasized, inflamed, picked up, gained strength, spiked, toned up, whetted, aggrandized, exalted, stressed, brightened, roused, heaped on, emphasised, pointed, beefed up … more
intensifying
  1. present participle of intensify
  2. Synonyms:
      3. exciting, provoking, inciting, riling, stirring up, fomenting, impassioning, inflaming, rallying, roiling, rousing, stirring, triggering, aggravating, agitating, animating, electrifying, firing up, goading, inspiring, instigating, arousing, enthusing, galvanizing, incensing, irking, priming, ruffling, stimulating, whipping up, baiting, charging, egging on, eliciting, encouraging, enlivening, grilling, kindling, piquing, pumping up, revving up, setting off, vexing, vivifying, winding up, working up, activating, angering, awakening, bringing about … more
intensated
  1. simple past tense and past participle of intensate
  2. Synonyms:
      3. increased, intensified, enhanced, exacerbated, aggravated, deepened, exaggerated, escalated, heightened, magnified, worsened, hastened, quickened, made worse, augmented, amplified, expanded, redoubled, boosted, strengthened, extended, built up, beefed up, roused, stepped up, swelled, multiplied, spread, reinforced, mounted, mushroomed, accentuated, snowballed, lift, broadened, aggrandized, amped up, rose, risen, accumulated, widened, compounded, ballooned, burgeoned, consolidated, inflamed, grown, grew, enlarged, swoll … more
intensating
  1. present participle of intensate
  2. Synonyms:
      3. deepening, intensifying, heightening, increasing, boosting, magnifying, amplifying, augmenting, escalating, enhancing, strengthening, expanding, rising, extending, redoubling, growing, reinforcing, consolidating, exacerbating, accentuating, developing, mushrooming, mounting, aggravating, inflaming, accumulating, snowballing, worsening, enriching, encouraging, promoting, fostering, rousing, cultivating, stimulating, nurturing, stepping up, adding to, beefing up, amping up, making worse, becoming worse, hotting up, building up, exaggerating, widening, broadening, aggrandizing, swelling, raising … more
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