intensive
[adjective]
Synonyms: concentrated, comprehensive, demanding, exhaustive, in-depth, thorough, thoroughgoing

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Contrasted words: casual, shallow, superficial

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in‧ten‧sive AC /ɪnˈtensɪv/ adjective

1. involving a lot of activity, effort, or careful attention in a short period of time:
a one-week intensive course in English
a day of intensive negotiations

2. intensive farming/agriculture farming which produces a lot of food from a small area of land

3. energy-intensive/knowledge-intensive etc involving or needing a lot of energy, knowledge etc:
a knowledge-intensive industry ⇒ capital-intensive, labour-intensive
—intensively adverb

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intensive
adj.
VERBS be
ADV. highly, very highly intensive courses for business and professional people
increasingly
PHRASES labour intensive Rice production is very labour intensive (= requires a lot of labour).

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