intense

形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /ɪnˈtɛns/    美 /ɪnˈtɛns/

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Of a characteristic: extreme or very high or strong in degree; severe; also, excessive, towering.
    — Nor was I yet able to passe through any of the narrower streets, but kept the widest; the ground and air, smoake and fiery vapour, continu'd so intense that my haire was almost sing'd, and my feete unsufferably surbated.
  2. Of a thing: possessing some characteristic to an extreme or very high or strong degree.
    — [T]h' intense atom glows / A moment, then is quenched in a most cold repose.
  3. Of feelings, thoughts, etc.: strongly focused; ardent, deep, earnest, passionate.
    — intense study
  4. Of a person: very emotional or passionate.
    — The artist was a small, intense man with piercing blue eyes.
  5. Under tension; tightly drawn; strained, stressed, tense. also,figuratively

词形变化

intenser comparative more intense comparative intensest superlative most intense superlative

词汇关系

衍生词
hyperintense hypointense intensate intensation intensely intensen intenseness intensification intensify intensity isointense nonintense overintense superintense ultraintense unintense
相关词
disintensify intensification intensified intensifier intensifying intensive reintensify

词源

From Late Middle English intens, intense (“ardent, fervent; extreme, great, intense”), borrowed from Old French intense (modern French intense), or directly from its etymon Latin intēnsus (“strained, stretched tight; intense; attentive; violent; (rare) eager, intent”), the perfect passive participle of intendō (“to stretch out, strain”), from in- (prefix meaning ‘in, inside, within’) + tendō (“to extend, stretch”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *tend- (“to extend, stretch”)).
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