intensive

intensif

Qui demande beaucoup de travail ou d’activité sur une courte période.

En anglais simple : 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.

Synonymes : concentrated

Expressions courantes : intensive course, intensive training, intensive care, intensive study

intensif, gourmand

Qui nécessite ou utilise beaucoup de ce que désigne le mot placé avant.

En anglais simple : 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.

Comment l'utiliser : noun + intensive (Handmade furniture is labor-intensive to produce.)

Synonymes : demanding

Expressions courantes : labor intensive, capital intensive, energy intensive, resource intensive

intensif, emphatique

Se dit d’un mot ou d’une forme qui renforce le sens d’un autre mot.

En anglais simple : 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.

Synonymes : emphatic, intensifying

Expressions courantes : intensive pronoun, intensive verb, intensive form