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Intensive vs Interior - What's the difference?

intensive | interior |

As adjectives the difference between intensive and interior

is that intensive is thorough, to a great degree, with intensity while interior is within any limits, enclosure, or substance; inside; internal; inner.

As nouns the difference between intensive and interior

is that intensive is (linguistics) form of a word with a stronger or more forceful sense than the root on which the intensive is built while interior is the inside of a building, container, cavern, or other enclosed structure.

intensive

English

(wikipedia intensive)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Thorough, to a great degree, with intensity.
    • 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.
  • Demanding, requiring a great amount.
    • This job is difficult because it is so labour-intensive .
  • Highly concentrated.
    • I took a three-day intensive course in finance.
  • (obsolete) Stretched; allowing intension, or increase of degree; that can be intensified.
  • Characterized by persistence; intent; assiduous.
  • (grammar) Serving to give force or emphasis.
    • an intensive verb or preposition

    Related terms

    * intense

    See also

    * extensive

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (linguistics) Form of a word with a stronger or more forceful sense than the root on which the intensive is built.
    • ----

    interior

    English

    Alternative forms

    * interiour (obsolete)

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Within any limits, enclosure, or substance; inside; internal; inner.
    • the interior''' apartments of a house; the '''interior surface of a hollow ball
  • Remote from the limits, frontier, or shore; inland.
    • the interior parts of a region or country

    Antonyms

    * (l)

    Derived terms

    * interior decoration * interior design * interior designer

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The inside of a building, container, cavern, or other enclosed structure.
  • The inside regions of a country, distanced from the borders or coasts.
    • ''Sir Richard Burton explored far into the African interior .
  • (mathematics, topology) The set of all interior points of a set.

    • Antonyms

    * (l)