Intensive vs Intentive - What's the difference?
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Thorough, to a great degree, with intensity.
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Demanding, requiring a great amount.
Highly concentrated.
(obsolete) Stretched; allowing intension, or increase of degree; that can be intensified.
Characterized by persistence; intent; assiduous.
(grammar) Serving to give force or emphasis.
(linguistics) Form of a word with a stronger or more forceful sense than the root on which the intensive is built.
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Paying attention; attentive, heedful.
Intent (of the mind, thoughts etc.).
*1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , V.9:
*:To which whilest she lent her intentive mind, / He suddenly his net upon her threw […].
(grammar) Expressing intent.
In grammar terms the difference between intensive and intentive
is that intensive is serving to give force or emphasis while intentive is expressing intent.As adjectives the difference between intensive and intentive
is that intensive is thorough, to a great degree, with intensity while intentive is paying attention; attentive, heedful.As a noun intensive
is form of a word with a stronger or more forceful sense than the root on which the intensive is built.intensive
English
(wikipedia intensive)Adjective
(en adjective)- She was moved to the intensive care unit of the hospital.
- Secondly, I continue to base my concepts on intensive study of a limited suite of collections, rather than superficial study of every packet that comes to hand.
- This job is difficult because it is so labour-intensive .
- I took a three-day intensive course in finance.
- an intensive verb or preposition