intense

[in-tens] / ɪnˈtɛns /

ADJECTIVE

forceful, severe; passionate

Synonyms

STRONGEST

acute bitter deep energetic excessive extraordinary extreme fierce great harsh heightened intensified intensive powerful profound protracted sharp strong violent vivid

WEAK

agonizing all-consuming ardent biting burning close concentrated consuming cutting diligent eager earnest exaggerated exceptional exquisite fanatical fervent fervid forcible full hard impassioned keen marked piercing pungent shrill stinging strained supreme undue vehement zealous

Antonyms

STRONGEST

aboveboard agreeable bland blunt calm dull gentle ignorant indistinct kind lazy low mild moderate nice pale peaceful shallow slow soft stupid superficial unimportant unintelligent weak

WEAK

low-key

Example Sentences

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Dan Barron of New York found both versions of La Gitana and was struck by how much more he liked the en rama bottle: “fuller, intenser, nuttier, sea-muckier than its filtered counterpart.”

From New York Times • Aug. 1, 2019

“When you love in a deeper and intenser way, then you are, in the same proportion, jealous,” an unspecified character from “The Golden Bowl” says in the entry for October 11th.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 23, 2016

They have suffered hardships, intenser than the hardships suffered on the Greek mainland because Crete never was self-sufficient.

From Time Magazine Archive

"The culture we so fondly cherish is now disastrously threatened from without, and the truer this becomes, the intenser becomes the awareness of our necessary identification with it."

From Time Magazine Archive

As verse succeeded verse the voices thrilled with an ever intenser excitement.

From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley

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