Intensive vs Intrusive - What's the difference?
intensive | intrusive |
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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Tending or apt to intrude; doing that which is not welcome; interrupting or disturbing; entering without right or welcome.
(geology) Of rocks: forced, while in a plastic or molten state, into the cavities or between the cracks or layers of other rocks.
(geology) An igneous rock that is forced, while molten, into cracks or between other layers of rock
As adjectives the difference between intensive and intrusive
is that intensive is thorough, to a great degree, with intensity while intrusive is tending or apt to intrude; doing that which is not welcome; interrupting or disturbing; entering without right or welcome.As nouns the difference between intensive and intrusive
is that intensive is form of a word with a stronger or more forceful sense than the root on which the intensive is built while intrusive is an igneous rock that is forced, while molten, into cracks or between other layers of rock.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
See also
* extensiveNoun
(en noun)intrusive
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Did it ever cross your mind that he might find all those questions you ask intrusive ?
