intensive

Involving a great deal of work or activity in a short time.

• She took an intensive language course.
• The team needs two weeks of intensive training.
• He received intensive care after the accident.

Similar words: concentrated

Common phrases: intensive course, intensive training, intensive care, intensive study

Needing or using a large amount of the thing named before it.

• The work is very labor-intensive.
• Steel production is energy-intensive.
• They avoided capital-intensive projects because money was limited.

How to use it: noun + intensive (Handmade furniture is labor-intensive to produce.)

Similar words: demanding

Common phrases: labor intensive, capital intensive, energy intensive, resource intensive

A word or form that makes the meaning of another word stronger.

• The teacher explained intensive pronouns.
• In this sentence, herself is an intensive pronoun.
• This language has an intensive form of the verb.

Similar words: emphatic, intensifying

Common phrases: intensive pronoun, intensive verb, intensive form