intensive

intensivo

Que concentra mucho trabajo o actividad en poco tiempo.

En inglés sencillo: 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.

Sinónimos: concentrated

Expresiones frecuentes: intensive course, intensive training, intensive care, intensive study

intensivo

Que necesita o utiliza una gran cantidad de lo indicado por la palabra anterior.

En inglés sencillo: 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.

Cómo se usa: noun + intensive (Handmade furniture is labor-intensive to produce.)

Sinónimos: demanding

Expresiones frecuentes: labor intensive, capital intensive, energy intensive, resource intensive

intensivo, enfático

Se dice de una palabra o forma que refuerza el significado de otra palabra.

En inglés sencillo: 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.

Sinónimos: emphatic, intensifying

Expresiones frecuentes: intensive pronoun, intensive verb, intensive form