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<span>Further reading</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Further_reading-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Anagrams" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Anagrams"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.6</span> <span>Anagrams</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Anagrams-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Dutch" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Dutch"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2</span> <span>Dutch</span> </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Dutch-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> <span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-expand"></span> <span>Toggle Dutch subsection</span> </button> <ul id="toc-Dutch-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Pronunciation_2" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Pronunciation_2"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.1</span> <span>Pronunciation</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Pronunciation_2-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Adjective_2" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Adjective_2"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.2</span> <span>Adjective</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Adjective_2-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Anagrams_2" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Anagrams_2"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.3</span> <span>Anagrams</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Anagrams_2-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-French" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#French"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3</span> <span>French</span> </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-French-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> <span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-expand"></span> <span>Toggle French subsection</span> </button> <ul id="toc-French-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Etymology_2" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Etymology_2"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.1</span> <span>Etymology</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Etymology_2-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Pronunciation_3" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Pronunciation_3"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.2</span> <span>Pronunciation</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Pronunciation_3-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Adjective_3" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Adjective_3"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.3</span> <span>Adjective</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Adjective_3-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Related_terms_2" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Related_terms_2"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.3.1</span> <span>Related terms</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Related_terms_2-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Descendants" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Descendants"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.3.2</span> <span>Descendants</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Descendants-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Further_reading_2" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Further_reading_2"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.4</span> <span>Further reading</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Further_reading_2-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Anagrams_3" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Anagrams_3"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.5</span> <span>Anagrams</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Anagrams_3-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Interlingua" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Interlingua"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4</span> <span>Interlingua</span> </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Interlingua-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> <span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-expand"></span> <span>Toggle Interlingua subsection</span> </button> <ul id="toc-Interlingua-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Adjective_4" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Adjective_4"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.1</span> <span>Adjective</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Adjective_4-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Related_terms_3" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Related_terms_3"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.1.1</span> <span>Related terms</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Related_terms_3-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Italian" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Italian"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5</span> <span>Italian</span> </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Italian-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> <span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-expand"></span> <span>Toggle Italian subsection</span> </button> <ul id="toc-Italian-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Adjective_5" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Adjective_5"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5.1</span> <span>Adjective</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Adjective_5-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Anagrams_4" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Anagrams_4"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5.2</span> <span>Anagrams</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Anagrams_4-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Latin" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Latin"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">6</span> <span>Latin</span> </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Latin-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> <span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-expand"></span> <span>Toggle Latin subsection</span> </button> <ul id="toc-Latin-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Adjective_6" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Adjective_6"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">6.1</span> <span>Adjective</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Adjective_6-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Norwegian_Bokmål" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Norwegian_Bokmål"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">7</span> <span>Norwegian Bokmål</span> </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Norwegian_Bokmål-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> <span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-expand"></span> <span>Toggle Norwegian Bokmål subsection</span> </button> <ul id="toc-Norwegian_Bokmål-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Adjective_7" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Adjective_7"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">7.1</span> <span>Adjective</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Adjective_7-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Norwegian_Nynorsk" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Norwegian_Nynorsk"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">8</span> <span>Norwegian Nynorsk</span> </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Norwegian_Nynorsk-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> <span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-expand"></span> <span>Toggle Norwegian Nynorsk subsection</span> </button> <ul id="toc-Norwegian_Nynorsk-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Adjective_8" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Adjective_8"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">8.1</span> <span>Adjective</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Adjective_8-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> </ul> </div> </div> </nav> </div> </div> <div class="mw-content-container"> <main id="content" class="mw-body"> <header class="mw-body-header vector-page-titlebar"> <nav aria-label="Contents" class="vector-toc-landmark"> <div id="vector-page-titlebar-toc" class="vector-dropdown vector-page-titlebar-toc vector-button-flush-left" title="Table of Contents" > <input type="checkbox" id="vector-page-titlebar-toc-checkbox" role="button" aria-haspopup="true" data-event-name="ui.dropdown-vector-page-titlebar-toc" class="vector-dropdown-checkbox " aria-label="Toggle the table of contents" > <label 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Available in 38 languages" > <label id="p-lang-btn-label" for="p-lang-btn-checkbox" class="vector-dropdown-label cdx-button cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--action-progressive mw-portlet-lang-heading-38" aria-hidden="true" ><span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-language-progressive mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-language-progressive"></span> <span class="vector-dropdown-label-text">38 languages</span> </label> <div class="vector-dropdown-content"> <div class="vector-menu-content"> <ul class="vector-menu-content-list"> <li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bn mw-list-item"><a href="https://bn.wiktionary.org/wiki/intense" title="intense – Bangla" lang="bn" hreflang="bn" data-title="intense" data-language-autonym="বাংলা" data-language-local-name="Bangla" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>বাংলা</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wiktionary.org/wiki/intense" title="intense – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="intense" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Català</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wiktionary.org/wiki/intense" title="intense – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="intense" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wiktionary.org/wiki/intense" title="intense – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="intense" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-et mw-list-item"><a href="https://et.wiktionary.org/wiki/intense" title="intense – Estonian" lang="et" hreflang="et" data-title="intense" data-language-autonym="Eesti" data-language-local-name="Estonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Eesti</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-el mw-list-item"><a href="https://el.wiktionary.org/wiki/intense" title="intense – Greek" lang="el" hreflang="el" data-title="intense" data-language-autonym="Ελληνικά" data-language-local-name="Greek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ελληνικά</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wiktionary.org/wiki/intense" title="intense – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="intense" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wiktionary.org/wiki/intense" title="intense – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="intense" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Esperanto</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wiktionary.org/wiki/intense" title="intense – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="intense" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wiktionary.org/wiki/intense" title="intense – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="intense" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hy mw-list-item"><a href="https://hy.wiktionary.org/wiki/intense" title="intense – Armenian" lang="hy" hreflang="hy" data-title="intense" data-language-autonym="Հայերեն" data-language-local-name="Armenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Հայերեն</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-io mw-list-item"><a href="https://io.wiktionary.org/wiki/intense" title="intense – Ido" lang="io" hreflang="io" data-title="intense" data-language-autonym="Ido" data-language-local-name="Ido" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ido</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wiktionary.org/wiki/intense" title="intense – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="intense" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kn mw-list-item"><a href="https://kn.wiktionary.org/wiki/intense" title="intense – Kannada" lang="kn" hreflang="kn" data-title="intense" data-language-autonym="ಕನ್ನಡ" data-language-local-name="Kannada" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ಕನ್ನಡ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ku mw-list-item"><a href="https://ku.wiktionary.org/wiki/intense" title="intense – Kurdish" lang="ku" hreflang="ku" data-title="intense" data-language-autonym="Kurdî" data-language-local-name="Kurdish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Kurdî</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ky mw-list-item"><a href="https://ky.wiktionary.org/wiki/intense" title="intense – Kyrgyz" lang="ky" hreflang="ky" data-title="intense" data-language-autonym="Кыргызча" data-language-local-name="Kyrgyz" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Кыргызча</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-li mw-list-item"><a href="https://li.wiktionary.org/wiki/intense" title="intense – Limburgish" lang="li" hreflang="li" data-title="intense" data-language-autonym="Limburgs" data-language-local-name="Limburgish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Limburgs</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hu mw-list-item"><a href="https://hu.wiktionary.org/wiki/intense" title="intense – Hungarian" lang="hu" hreflang="hu" data-title="intense" data-language-autonym="Magyar" data-language-local-name="Hungarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Magyar</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mg mw-list-item"><a href="https://mg.wiktionary.org/wiki/intense" title="intense – Malagasy" lang="mg" hreflang="mg" data-title="intense" data-language-autonym="Malagasy" data-language-local-name="Malagasy" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Malagasy</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ml mw-list-item"><a href="https://ml.wiktionary.org/wiki/intense" title="intense – Malayalam" lang="ml" hreflang="ml" data-title="intense" data-language-autonym="മലയാളം" data-language-local-name="Malayalam" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>മലയാളം</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-my mw-list-item"><a href="https://my.wiktionary.org/wiki/intense" title="intense – Burmese" lang="my" hreflang="my" data-title="intense" data-language-autonym="မြန်မာဘာသာ" data-language-local-name="Burmese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>မြန်မာဘာသာ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wiktionary.org/wiki/intense" title="intense – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="intense" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nederlands</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wiktionary.org/wiki/intense" title="intense – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="intense" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>日本語</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-oc mw-list-item"><a href="https://oc.wiktionary.org/wiki/intense" title="intense – Occitan" lang="oc" hreflang="oc" data-title="intense" data-language-autonym="Occitan" data-language-local-name="Occitan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Occitan</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-om mw-list-item"><a href="https://om.wiktionary.org/wiki/intense" title="intense – Oromo" lang="om" hreflang="om" data-title="intense" data-language-autonym="Oromoo" data-language-local-name="Oromo" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Oromoo</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl mw-list-item"><a href="https://pl.wiktionary.org/wiki/intense" title="intense – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="intense" data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Polski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt mw-list-item"><a href="https://pt.wiktionary.org/wiki/intense" title="intense – Portuguese" lang="pt" hreflang="pt" data-title="intense" data-language-autonym="Português" data-language-local-name="Portuguese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Português</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ru mw-list-item"><a href="https://ru.wiktionary.org/wiki/intense" title="intense – Russian" lang="ru" hreflang="ru" data-title="intense" data-language-autonym="Русский" data-language-local-name="Russian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Русский</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sg mw-list-item"><a href="https://sg.wiktionary.org/wiki/intense" title="intense – Sango" lang="sg" hreflang="sg" data-title="intense" data-language-autonym="Sängö" data-language-local-name="Sango" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Sängö</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-simple mw-list-item"><a href="https://simple.wiktionary.org/wiki/intense" title="intense – Simple English" lang="en-simple" hreflang="en-simple" data-title="intense" data-language-autonym="Simple English" data-language-local-name="Simple English" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Simple English</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link 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lang="enm"><a class="mw-selflink-fragment" href="#Middle_English">intense</a></i> <span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span><span class="mention-gloss-double-quote">“</span><span class="mention-gloss">ardent, fervent; extreme, great, intense</span><span class="mention-gloss-double-quote">”</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span>,<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> borrowed from <span class="etyl"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_French" class="extiw" title="w:Old French">Old French</a></span> <i class="Latn mention" lang="fro"><a class="mw-selflink-fragment" href="#Old_French">intense</a></i> (modern <span class="etyl"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_language" class="extiw" title="w:French language">French</a></span> <i class="Latn mention" lang="fr"><a class="mw-selflink-fragment" href="#French">intense</a></i>), or directly from its <a href="/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#etymon" title="Appendix:Glossary">etymon</a> <span class="etyl"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin" class="extiw" title="w:Latin">Latin</a></span> <i class="Latn mention" lang="la"><a href="/wiki/intensus#Latin" title="intensus">intēnsus</a></i> <span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span><span class="mention-gloss-double-quote">“</span><span class="mention-gloss">strained, stretched tight; intense; attentive; violent; (<i>rare</i>) eager, intent</span><span class="mention-gloss-double-quote">”</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span>, the <a href="/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#perfect" title="Appendix:Glossary">perfect</a> <a href="/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#passive" title="Appendix:Glossary">passive</a> <a href="/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#participle" title="Appendix:Glossary">participle</a> of <i class="Latn mention" lang="la"><a href="/wiki/intendo#Latin" title="intendo">intendō</a></i> <span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span><span class="mention-gloss-double-quote">“</span><span class="mention-gloss">to stretch out, strain</span><span class="mention-gloss-double-quote">”</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span>,<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> from <i class="Latn mention" lang="la"><a href="/wiki/in-#Latin" title="in-">in-</a></i> <span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span><span class="ann-pos"><a href="/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#prefix" title="Appendix:Glossary">prefix</a> meaning ‘in, inside, within’</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span> + <i class="Latn mention" lang="la"><a href="/wiki/tendo#Latin" title="tendo">tendō</a></i> <span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span><span class="mention-gloss-double-quote">“</span><span class="mention-gloss">to extend, stretch</span><span class="mention-gloss-double-quote">”</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span> (ultimately from <span class="etyl"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proto-Indo-European_language" class="extiw" title="w:Proto-Indo-European language">Proto-Indo-European</a></span> <i class="Latn mention" lang="ine-pro"><a href="/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/tend-" title="Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/tend-">*tend-</a></i> <span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span><span class="mention-gloss-double-quote">“</span><span class="mention-gloss">to extend, stretch</span><span class="mention-gloss-double-quote">”</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span>). </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Pronunciation">Pronunciation</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=intense&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Pronunciation"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><span class="ib-brac qualifier-brac">(</span><span class="ib-content qualifier-content"><span class="usage-label-accent"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Received_Pronunciation" class="extiw" title="w:Received Pronunciation">Received Pronunciation</a><span class="ib-comma label-comma">,</span> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_American_English" class="extiw" title="w:General American English">General American</a></span></span><span class="ib-brac qualifier-brac">)</span> <a href="/wiki/Wiktionary:International_Phonetic_Alphabet" title="Wiktionary:International Phonetic Alphabet">IPA</a><sup>(<a href="/wiki/Appendix:English_pronunciation" title="Appendix:English pronunciation">key</a>)</sup>: <span class="IPA">/ɪnˈtɛns/</span></li> <li><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r50165410">.mw-parser-output .k-player .k-attribution{visibility:hidden}</style><table class="audiotable" style="vertical-align: middle; display: inline-block; list-style: none; line-height: 1em; border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0;"><tbody><tr><td>Audio <span class="ib-brac qualifier-brac">(</span><span class="usage-label-accent"><span class="ib-content label-content"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_American_English" class="extiw" title="w:General American English">General American</a></span></span><span class="ib-brac qualifier-brac">)</span><span class="ib-colon qualifier-colon">:</span></td><td class="audiofile"><span typeof="mw:File"><span><audio id="mwe_player_0" controls="" preload="none" data-mw-tmh="" class="mw-file-element" width="175" style="width:175px;" data-durationhint="2" data-mwtitle="En-us-intense.ogg" data-mwprovider="wikimediacommons"><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/29/En-us-intense.ogg" type="audio/ogg; codecs="vorbis"" data-width="0" data-height="0" /><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/2/29/En-us-intense.ogg/En-us-intense.ogg.mp3" type="audio/mpeg" data-transcodekey="mp3" data-width="0" data-height="0" /></audio></span></span></td><td class="audiometa" style="font-size: 80%;">(<a href="/wiki/File:En-us-intense.ogg" title="File:En-us-intense.ogg">file</a>)</td></tr></tbody></table></li> <li>Rhymes: <a href="/wiki/Rhymes:English/%C9%9Bns" title="Rhymes:English/ɛns"><span class="IPA">-ɛns</span></a></li> <li>Hyphenation: <span class="Latn" lang="en">in‧tense</span></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Adjective">Adjective</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=intense&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Adjective"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><span class="headword-line"><strong class="Latn headword" lang="en">intense</strong> (<i><a href="/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#comparative" title="Appendix:Glossary">comparative</a></i> <b class="Latn form-of lang-en comparative-form-of" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/intenser#English" title="intenser">intenser</a></b> <i>or</i> <b class="Latn form-of lang-en comparative-form-of" lang="en">more <strong class="selflink">intense</strong></b>, <i><a href="/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#superlative" title="Appendix:Glossary">superlative</a></i> <b class="Latn form-of lang-en superlative-form-of" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/intensest#English" title="intensest">intensest</a></b> <i>or</i> <b class="Latn form-of lang-en superlative-form-of" lang="en">most <strong class="selflink">intense</strong></b>)</span> </p> <ol><li>Of a <a href="/wiki/characteristic#Noun" title="characteristic">characteristic</a>: <a href="/wiki/extreme#Adjective" title="extreme">extreme</a> or very <a href="/wiki/high#Adjective" title="high">high</a> or <a href="/wiki/strong#Adjective" title="strong">strong</a> in <a href="/wiki/degree" title="degree">degree</a>; <a href="/wiki/severe" title="severe">severe</a>; also, <a href="/wiki/excessive" title="excessive">excessive</a>, <a href="/wiki/towering" title="towering">towering</a>. <ul><li><div class="citation-whole"><span class="cited-source"><b>1666</b> September 17 (Gregorian calendar), <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Evelyn" class="extiw" title="w:John Evelyn">John Evelyn</a>, “<span style="font-style: normal;">[</span>Diary entry for 7 September 1666<span style="font-style: normal;">]</span>”, in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Bray_(antiquary)" class="extiw" title="w:William Bray (antiquary)">William Bray</a>, editor, <cite><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Evelyn%27s_Diary" class="extiw" title="w:John Evelyn's Diary">Memoirs, Illustrative of the Life and Writings of John Evelyn,<span class="q-hellip-sp"> </span><span class="q-hellip-b"><span style="font-style: normal;">[</span></span><span title="Esq. F.R.S. Author of the “Sylva,” &c. &c. Comprising His Diary, from the Year 1641 to 1705–6, and a Selection of His Familiar Letters. To which is Subjoined, the Private Correspondence between King Charles I. and His Secretary of State, Sir Edward Nicholas, whilst His Majesty was in Scotland, 1641, and at Other Times during the Civil War; also between Sir Edward Hyde, afterwards Earl of Clarendon, and Sir Richard Browne, Ambassador to the Court of France, in the Time of King Charles I. and the Usurpation. The Whole Now First Published, from the Original Mss. in Two Volumes.">…</span><span class="q-hellip-b"><span style="font-style: normal;">]</span></span><span class="q-hellip-b"></span></a></cite>, 2nd edition, volume I, London: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Colburn" class="extiw" title="w:Henry Colburn">Henry Colburn</a>,<span class="q-hellip-sp"> </span><span class="q-hellip-b"><span style="font-style: normal;">[</span></span><span title="Conduit Street">…</span><span class="q-hellip-b"><span style="font-style: normal;">]</span></span><span class="q-hellip-b"></span>; and sold by John and Arthur Arch,<span class="q-hellip-sp"> </span><span class="q-hellip-b"><span style="font-style: normal;">[</span></span><span title="Cornhill.">…</span><span class="q-hellip-b"><span style="font-style: normal;">]</span></span><span class="q-hellip-b"></span>, published <span class="None" lang="und">1819</span>, <small><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.worldcat.org/title/976971842">→OCLC</a></small>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/memoirsillustrat01evel/page/396/mode/1up">page <span class="None" lang="und">396</span></a>:</span><dl><dd><div class="h-quotation"><span class="Latn e-quotation cited-passage" lang="en">Nor was I yet able to passe through any of the narrower streets, but kept the widest; the ground and air, smoake and fiery vapour, continu'd so <b>intense</b> that my haire was almost sing'd, and my feete unsufferably surbated.</span></div></dd></dl></div></li> <li><div class="citation-whole"><span class="cited-source"><b>1817</b> December (indicated as <b>1818</b>), <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percy_Bysshe_Shelley" class="extiw" title="w:Percy Bysshe Shelley">Percy B[ysshe] Shelley</a>, “Canto Third”, in <cite><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Revolt_of_Islam" class="extiw" title="w:The Revolt of Islam">Laon and Cythna; or, The Revolution of the Golden City: A Vision of the Nineteenth Century.<span class="q-hellip-sp"> </span><span class="q-hellip-b"><span style="font-style: normal;">[</span></span><span title="In the Stanza of [Edmund] Spenser.">…</span><span class="q-hellip-b"><span style="font-style: normal;">]</span></span><span class="q-hellip-b"></span></a></cite>, London: <span class="q-hellip-sp"> </span><span class="q-hellip-b"><span style="font-style: normal;">[</span></span><span title="Printed">…</span><span class="q-hellip-b"><span style="font-style: normal;">]</span></span><span class="q-hellip-b"> </span> <span style="font-style: normal;">[</span>F<span style="font-style: normal;">]</span>or Sherwood, Neely, & Jones,<span class="q-hellip-sp"> </span><span class="q-hellip-b"><span style="font-style: normal;">[</span></span><span title="Paternoster-Row">…</span><span class="q-hellip-b"><span style="font-style: normal;">]</span></span><span class="q-hellip-b"></span>; and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Ollier" class="extiw" title="w:Charles Ollier">C<span style="font-style: normal;">[</span>harles<span style="font-style: normal;">]</span> and J<span style="font-style: normal;">[</span>ames<span style="font-style: normal;">]</span> Ollier</a>,<span class="q-hellip-sp"> </span><span class="q-hellip-b"><span style="font-style: normal;">[</span></span><span title="Welbeck-Street">…</span><span class="q-hellip-b"><span style="font-style: normal;">]</span></span><span class="q-hellip-b"></span>; by B<span style="font-style: normal;">[</span>uchanan<span style="font-style: normal;">]</span> M‘Millan,<span class="q-hellip-sp"> </span><span class="q-hellip-b"><span style="font-style: normal;">[</span></span><span title="Bow-Street, Covent-Garden.">…</span><span class="q-hellip-b"><span style="font-style: normal;">]</span></span><span class="q-hellip-b"></span>, <small><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.worldcat.org/title/29621340">→OCLC</a></small>, stanza III, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/laoncythnaorrevo00shel/page/58/mode/1up">page <span class="None" lang="und">58</span></a>:</span><dl><dd><div class="h-quotation"><span class="Latn e-quotation cited-passage" lang="en"><span class="q-hellip-sp"></span><span class="q-hellip-b">[</span>…<span class="q-hellip-b">]</span><span class="q-hellip-b"> </span> Nature had a robe of glory on, / And the bright air o'er every shape did weave / <b>Intenser</b> hues, so that the herbless stone, / The leafless bough among the leaves alone, / Had being clearer than its own could be, <span class="q-hellip-sp"> </span><span class="q-hellip-b">[</span>…<span class="q-hellip-b">]</span><span class="q-hellip-b"></span></span></div></dd></dl></div></li> <li><div class="citation-whole"><span class="cited-source"><span class="None" lang="und"><b>1857</b></span>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ruskin" class="extiw" title="w:John Ruskin">John Ruskin</a>, “Lecture I”, in <cite>The Political Economy of Art: Being the Substance (with Additions) of Two Lectures Delivered at Manchester, July 10th and 13th, 1857</cite>, London: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smith,_Elder_%26_Co." class="extiw" title="w:Smith, Elder & Co.">Smith, Elder and Co.</a>,<span class="q-hellip-sp"> </span><span class="q-hellip-b"><span style="font-style: normal;">[</span></span><span title="65, Cornhill.">…</span><span class="q-hellip-b"><span style="font-style: normal;">]</span></span><span class="q-hellip-b"></span>, <small><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.worldcat.org/title/82980182">→OCLC</a></small>, section II (Application), <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.32044033264888&view=1up&seq=62">page <span class="None" lang="und">48</span></a>:</span><dl><dd><div class="h-quotation"><span class="Latn e-quotation cited-passage" lang="en"><span class="q-hellip-sp"></span><span class="q-hellip-b">[</span>…<span class="q-hellip-b">]</span><span class="q-hellip-b"> </span> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pietro_de%27_Medici" class="extiw" title="w:Pietro de' Medici">Pietro di Medici</a> then gave, at the period of one great epoch of consummate power in the arts, the perfect, accurate, and <b>intensest</b> possible type of the greatest error which nations and princes can commit, respecting the power of genius entrusted to their guidance.</span></div></dd></dl></div></li> <li><div class="citation-whole"><span class="cited-source"><b>2013</b> June 29, “Floods in India: High and wet”, in <cite><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Economist" class="extiw" title="w:The Economist">The Economist</a></cite>‎<sup><a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130701062207/http://www.economist.com/news/asia/21580209-natural-disaster-aggravated-poor-response-high-and-wet">[1]</a></sup>, volume <span class="None" lang="und">407</span>, number <span class="None" lang="und">8842</span>, London: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economist_Group" class="extiw" title="w:Economist Group">Economist Group</a>, <small><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.worldcat.org/issn/0013-0613">→ISSN</a></small>, <small><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.worldcat.org/title/805074337">→OCLC</a></small>, archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.economist.com/news/asia/21580209-natural-disaster-aggravated-poor-response-high-and-wet">the original</a> on <span class="mw-formatted-date" title="2013-07-01">2013-07-01</span>, page <span class="None" lang="und">28</span>:</span><dl><dd><div class="h-quotation"><span class="Latn e-quotation cited-passage" lang="en">Floods in northern India, mostly in the small state of Uttarakhand, have wrought disaster on an enormous scale. The early, <b>intense</b> onset of the monsoon on June 14th swelled rivers, washing away roads, bridges, hotels and even whole villages.</span></div></dd></dl></div></li></ul></li> <li>Of a <a href="/wiki/thing" title="thing">thing</a>: <a href="/wiki/possess" title="possess">possessing</a> some characteristic to an extreme or very high or strong degree. <ul><li><div class="citation-whole"><span class="cited-source"><span class="None" lang="und"><b>1821</b></span>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percy_Bysshe_Shelley" class="extiw" title="w:Percy Bysshe Shelley">Percy B[ysshe] Shelley</a>, <cite><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adonais" class="extiw" title="w:Adonais">Adonais: An Elegy on the Death of John Keats,<span class="q-hellip-sp"> </span><span class="q-hellip-b"><span style="font-style: normal;">[</span></span><span title="Author of Endymion, Hyperion etc.">…</span><span class="q-hellip-b"><span style="font-style: normal;">]</span></span><span class="q-hellip-b"></span></a></cite>, Pisa, Italy: <span class="q-hellip-sp"> </span><span class="q-hellip-b"><span style="font-style: normal;">[</span></span><span title="With the types of">…</span><span class="q-hellip-b"><span style="font-style: normal;">]</span></span><span class="q-hellip-b"> </span> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Didot_family" class="extiw" title="w:Didot family">Didot</a>; reprinted London: Noel Douglas<span class="q-hellip-sp"> </span><span class="q-hellip-b"><span style="font-style: normal;">[</span></span><span title="38 Great Ormond Street London W.C.1">…</span><span class="q-hellip-b"><span style="font-style: normal;">]</span></span><span class="q-hellip-b"></span>, <span class="None" lang="und">1927</span>, <small><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.worldcat.org/title/1156441409">→OCLC</a></small>, stanza XX, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.b4691973&view=1up&seq=25">page <span class="None" lang="und">13</span></a>:</span><dl><dd><div class="h-quotation"><span class="Latn e-quotation cited-passage" lang="en">[T]h' <b>intense</b> atom glows / A moment, then is quenched in a most cold repose.</span></div></dd></dl></div></li> <li><div class="citation-whole"><span class="cited-source"><i><a href="/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#a." title="Appendix:Glossary"><abbr title="ante">a.</abbr></a></i> <b>1822</b> (date written), <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Keats" class="extiw" title="w:John Keats">John Keats</a>, “[Tragedies.] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_the_Great" class="extiw" title="w:Otto the Great">Otho the Great</a>: A Tragedy in Five Acts.”, in [<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horace_Scudder" class="extiw" title="w:Horace Scudder">Horace Elisha Scudder</a>], editor, <cite>The Complete Poetical Works and Letters of John Keats</cite>, Cambridge edition, Boston, Mass., New York, N.Y.: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Houghton_Mifflin_Harcourt" class="extiw" title="w:Houghton Mifflin Harcourt">Houghton, Mifflin and Company</a><span class="q-hellip-sp"> </span><span class="q-hellip-b"><span style="font-style: normal;">[</span></span><span title="The Riverside Press, Cambridge [Mass.].">…</span><span class="q-hellip-b"><span style="font-style: normal;">]</span></span><span class="q-hellip-b"></span>, published <span class="None" lang="und">1899</span>, <small><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.worldcat.org/title/560816164">→OCLC</a></small>, Act V, scene v, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/completepoetical00keat/page/189/mode/1up">page <span class="None" lang="und">189</span></a>, column 1, lines <span class="None" lang="und">40–44</span>:</span><dl><dd><div class="h-quotation"><span class="Latn e-quotation cited-passage" lang="en">These pendent lamps and chandeliers are bright / As earthly fires from dull dross can be cleansed; / Yet could my eyes drink up <b>intenser</b> beams / Undazzled—this is darkness—when I close / These lids, i see far fiercer brilliances,— <span class="q-hellip-sp"> </span><span class="q-hellip-b">[</span>…<span class="q-hellip-b">]</span><span class="q-hellip-b"></span></span></div></dd></dl></div></li> <li><div class="citation-whole"><span class="cited-source"><span class="None" lang="und"><b>1873</b></span>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Black_(novelist)" class="extiw" title="w:William Black (novelist)">William Black</a>, “The Princess Sheila”, in <cite>A Princess of Thule.<span class="q-hellip-sp"> </span><span class="q-hellip-b"><span style="font-style: normal;">[</span></span><span title="A Novel.">…</span><span class="q-hellip-b"><span style="font-style: normal;">]</span></span><span class="q-hellip-b"></span></cite>, New York, N.Y.; London: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harper_(publisher)" class="extiw" title="w:Harper (publisher)">Harper & Brothers</a>, <small><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.worldcat.org/title/8100145">→OCLC</a></small>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/princessofthulen00blac/page/463/mode/1up">page <span class="None" lang="und">463</span></a>:</span><dl><dd><div class="h-quotation"><span class="Latn e-quotation cited-passage" lang="en">As the night came on the yellow stars grew more <b>intense</b> overhead, but the lambent glow in the north did not pale.</span></div></dd></dl></div></li></ul></li> <li>Of <a href="/wiki/feeling#Noun" title="feeling">feelings</a>, <a href="/wiki/thought#Noun" title="thought">thoughts</a>, etc.: <a href="/wiki/strongly" title="strongly">strongly</a> <a href="/wiki/focus#Verb" title="focus">focused</a>; <a href="/wiki/ardent" title="ardent">ardent</a>, <a href="/wiki/deep#Adjective" title="deep">deep</a>, <a href="/wiki/earnest#Adjective" title="earnest">earnest</a>, <a href="/wiki/passionate" title="passionate">passionate</a>. <dl><dd><div class="h-usage-example"><i class="Latn mention e-example" lang="en"><b>intense</b> study <b>intense</b> thought</i></div></dd></dl> <ul><li><div class="citation-whole"><span class="cited-source"><span class="None" lang="und"><b>1645</b></span> March 14 (Gregorian calendar), <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Milton" class="extiw" title="w:John Milton">John Milton</a>, <cite><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetrachordon" class="extiw" title="w:Tetrachordon">Tetrachordon: Expositions upon the Foure Chief Places in Scripture, which Treat of Mariage, or Nullities in Mariage.<span class="q-hellip-sp"> </span><span class="q-hellip-b"><span style="font-style: normal;">[</span></span><span title="On Gen. 1.27.28. Compar’d and Explain’d by Gen. 2. 18.23.24. Deut. 24.1.2. Matth. 5.31.32. with Matth. 19. from the 3ᵈ.v. to the 11ᵗʰ. 1 Cor. 7. from the 10ᵗʰ to the 16ᵗʰ. Wherein the Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce, as was Lately Publish’d, is Confirm’d by Explanation of Scripture, by Testimony of Ancient Fathers, of Civill Lawes in the Primitive Church, of Famousest Reformed Divines, and Lastly, by an Intended Act of the Parlament and Church of England in the Last Yeare of Edward the Sixth. By the Former Author J. M.">…</span><span class="q-hellip-b"><span style="font-style: normal;">]</span></span><span class="q-hellip-b"></span></a></cite>, London: <span class="None" lang="und">[<a href="/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#s.n." title="Appendix:Glossary">s.n.</a>]</span>, <small><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.worldcat.org/title/1203280161">→OCLC</a></small>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=5rJDAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA9">pages <span class="None" lang="und">8–9</span></a>:</span><dl><dd><div class="h-quotation"><span class="Latn e-quotation cited-passage" lang="en">No mortall nature can endure either in the actions of Religion, or ſtudy of VViſdome, vvithout ſometime ſlackning the cords of <b>intenſe</b> thought and labour: <span class="q-hellip-sp"> </span><span class="q-hellip-b">[</span>…<span class="q-hellip-b">]</span><span class="q-hellip-b"></span></span></div></dd></dl></div></li> <li><div class="citation-whole"><span class="cited-source"><span class="None" lang="und"><span style="font-style: normal;">[</span><b>1720</b><span style="font-style: normal;">]</span></span>, [<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Defoe" class="extiw" title="w:Daniel Defoe">Daniel Defoe</a>], “Part I”, in <cite><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memoirs_of_a_Cavalier" class="extiw" title="w:Memoirs of a Cavalier">Memoirs of a Cavalier: Or A Military Journal of the Wars in Germany, and the Wars in England; from the Year 1632, to the Year 1648.<span class="q-hellip-sp"> </span><span class="q-hellip-b"><span style="font-style: normal;">[</span></span><span title="Written Threescore Years ago by an English Gentleman, who Served First in the Army of Gustavus Adolphus, the Glorious King of Sweden, till His Death; and after that, in the Royal Army of King Charles the First, from the Beginning of the Rebellion, to the End of that War.">…</span><span class="q-hellip-b"><span style="font-style: normal;">]</span></span><span class="q-hellip-b"></span></a></cite>, London: <span class="q-hellip-sp"> </span><span class="q-hellip-b"><span style="font-style: normal;">[</span></span><span title="Printed for">…</span><span class="q-hellip-b"><span style="font-style: normal;">]</span></span><span class="q-hellip-b"> </span> A. Bell<span class="q-hellip-sp"> </span><span class="q-hellip-b"><span style="font-style: normal;">[</span></span><span title="at the Cross Keys in Cornhill">…</span><span class="q-hellip-b"><span style="font-style: normal;">]</span></span><span class="q-hellip-b"></span>, J. Osborn<span class="q-hellip-sp"> </span><span class="q-hellip-b"><span style="font-style: normal;">[</span></span><span title="at the Oxford Arms in Lombard-Street">…</span><span class="q-hellip-b"><span style="font-style: normal;">]</span></span><span class="q-hellip-b"></span>, W<span style="font-style: normal;">[</span>illiam<span style="font-style: normal;">]</span> Taylor<span class="q-hellip-sp"> </span><span class="q-hellip-b"><span style="font-style: normal;">[</span></span><span title="at the Ship and Swan">…</span><span class="q-hellip-b"><span style="font-style: normal;">]</span></span><span class="q-hellip-b"></span>, and T. Warner<span class="q-hellip-sp"> </span><span class="q-hellip-b"><span style="font-style: normal;">[</span></span><span title="at the Black Boy in Pater-Noster-Row.">…</span><span class="q-hellip-b"><span style="font-style: normal;">]</span></span><span class="q-hellip-b"></span>, <small><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.worldcat.org/title/4294347">→OCLC</a></small>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/bim_eighteenth-century_memoirs-of-a-cavalier-o_defoe-daniel_1720/page/(50)/mode/1up">page <span class="None" lang="und">50</span></a>:</span><dl><dd><div class="h-quotation"><span class="Latn e-quotation cited-passage" lang="en">VVe found the Elector <b>intenſe</b> upon the ſtrengthening of his Army, <span class="q-hellip-sp"> </span><span class="q-hellip-b">[</span>…<span class="q-hellip-b">]</span><span class="q-hellip-b"></span></span></div></dd></dl></div></li> <li><div class="citation-whole"><span class="cited-source"><span class="None" lang="und"><b>1797</b></span>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Radcliffe" class="extiw" title="w:Ann Radcliffe">Ann Radcliffe</a>, chapter XI, in <cite><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Italian_(Radcliffe_novel)" class="extiw" title="w:The Italian (Radcliffe novel)">The Italian, or The Confessional of the Black Penitents. A Romance.<span class="q-hellip-sp"> </span><span class="q-hellip-b"><span style="font-style: normal;">[</span></span><span title="[...] In Three Volumes.">…</span><span class="q-hellip-b"><span style="font-style: normal;">]</span></span><span class="q-hellip-b"></span></a></cite>, volume I, London: <span class="q-hellip-sp"> </span><span class="q-hellip-b"><span style="font-style: normal;">[</span></span><span title="Printed for">…</span><span class="q-hellip-b"><span style="font-style: normal;">]</span></span><span class="q-hellip-b"> </span> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadell_%26_Davies" class="extiw" title="w:Cadell & Davies">T<span style="font-style: normal;">[</span>homas<span style="font-style: normal;">]</span> Cadell Jun. and W<span style="font-style: normal;">[</span>illiam<span style="font-style: normal;">]</span> Davies</a> (successors to Mr. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Cadell_(publisher)" class="extiw" title="w:Thomas Cadell (publisher)"><span style="font-style: normal;">[</span>Thomas<span style="font-style: normal;">]</span> Cadell</a>)<span class="q-hellip-sp"> </span><span class="q-hellip-b"><span style="font-style: normal;">[</span></span><span title="in the Strand.">…</span><span class="q-hellip-b"><span style="font-style: normal;">]</span></span><span class="q-hellip-b"></span>, <small><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.worldcat.org/title/897483671">→OCLC</a></small>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=UxkGAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA309">pages <span class="None" lang="und">308–309</span></a>:</span><dl><dd><div class="h-quotation"><span class="Latn e-quotation cited-passage" lang="en">The ceremony began vvith the exhortation of the <i>Father-Abbot</i>, delivered vvith ſolemn energy; then the novice kneeling before him, made her profeſſion, for vvhich Vivaldi liſtened vvith <b>intenſe</b> attention, but it vvas delivered in ſuch lovv and trembling accents, that he could not aſcertain even the tone.</span></div></dd></dl></div></li> <li><div class="citation-whole"><span class="cited-source"><span class="None" lang="und"><b>1828</b></span>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Bulwer-Lytton" class="extiw" title="w:Edward Bulwer-Lytton">[Edward Bulwer-Lytton</a>], chapter XX, in <cite>Pelham; or, The Adventures of a Gentleman.<span class="q-hellip-sp"> </span><span class="q-hellip-b"><span style="font-style: normal;">[</span></span><span title="[...] In Three Volumes.">…</span><span class="q-hellip-b"><span style="font-style: normal;">]</span></span><span class="q-hellip-b"></span></cite>, volume II, London: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Colburn" class="extiw" title="w:Henry Colburn">Henry Colburn</a>,<span class="q-hellip-sp"> </span><span class="q-hellip-b"><span style="font-style: normal;">[</span></span><span title="New Burlington Street.">…</span><span class="q-hellip-b"><span style="font-style: normal;">]</span></span><span class="q-hellip-b"></span>, <small><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.worldcat.org/title/729841413">→OCLC</a></small>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=8lGWXTHkBtMC&pg=PA196">page <span class="None" lang="und">196</span></a>:</span><dl><dd><div class="h-quotation"><span class="Latn e-quotation cited-passage" lang="en">I rose by candle-light, and consumed, in the <b>intensest</b> application, the hours which every other individual of our party wasted in enervating slumbers, from the hesternal dissipation or debauch.</span></div></dd></dl></div></li> <li><div class="citation-whole"><span class="cited-source"><span class="None" lang="und"><b>1849</b></span>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Babington_Macaulay" class="extiw" title="w:Thomas Babington Macaulay">Thomas Babington Macaulay</a>, chapter III, in <cite><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_History_of_England_from_the_Accession_of_James_the_Second" class="extiw" title="w:The History of England from the Accession of James the Second">The History of England from the Accession of James II</a></cite>, volume I, London: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longman" class="extiw" title="w:Longman">Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans</a>, <small><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.worldcat.org/title/1069526323">→OCLC</a></small>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/macaulayhistoryofengland01/page/353/mode/1up">page <span class="None" lang="und">353</span></a>:</span><dl><dd><div class="h-quotation"><span class="Latn e-quotation cited-passage" lang="en">That <b>intense</b> patriotism which is peculiar to the members of societies congregated within a narrow space was, in such circumstances, strongly developed.</span></div></dd></dl></div></li> <li><div class="citation-whole"><span class="cited-source"><span class="None" lang="und"><b>1882</b></span>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ouida" class="extiw" title="w:Ouida">Ouida</a> [pseudonym; Maria Louise Ramé], chapter VII, in <cite>In Maremma<span class="q-hellip-sp"> </span><span class="q-hellip-b"><span style="font-style: normal;">[</span></span><span title="A Story [...] In Three Volumes">…</span><span class="q-hellip-b"><span style="font-style: normal;">]</span></span><span class="q-hellip-b"></span></cite>, volume I, London: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chatto_%26_Windus" class="extiw" title="w:Chatto & Windus">Chatto & Windus</a>,<span class="q-hellip-sp"> </span><span class="q-hellip-b"><span style="font-style: normal;">[</span></span><span title="Piccadilly">…</span><span class="q-hellip-b"><span style="font-style: normal;">]</span></span><span class="q-hellip-b"></span>, <small><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.worldcat.org/title/82083686">→OCLC</a></small>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/inmaremmastory01ouid/page/155/mode/1up">page <span class="None" lang="und">155</span></a>:</span><dl><dd><div class="h-quotation"><span class="Latn e-quotation cited-passage" lang="en">[H]er voice gave <b>intensest</b> passion and longing to the words; <span class="q-hellip-sp"> </span><span class="q-hellip-b">[</span>…<span class="q-hellip-b">]</span><span class="q-hellip-b"></span></span></div></dd></dl></div></li> <li><div class="citation-whole"><span class="cited-source"><span class="None" lang="und"><b>1886</b></span>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annie_Besant" class="extiw" title="w:Annie Besant">Annie Besant</a>, <cite>Life, Death, and Immortality</cite>, London: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Freethought_Publishing_Company" class="extiw" title="w:The Freethought Publishing Company">Freethought Publishing Company</a>,<span class="q-hellip-sp"> </span><span class="q-hellip-b"><span style="font-style: normal;">[</span></span><span title="63, Fleet Street, E.C.">…</span><span class="q-hellip-b"><span style="font-style: normal;">]</span></span><span class="q-hellip-b"></span>, <small><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.worldcat.org/title/79181382">→OCLC</a></small>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=8ZYwAQAAMAAJ&pg=RA4-PA3">page 3</a>:</span><dl><dd><div class="h-quotation"><span class="Latn e-quotation cited-passage" lang="en">Of all the questions which, throughout the centuries, have escaped from the lips of man, there is none which has been asked with such persistence, none which has possessed interest more perennial, than "Whence do I come? Whither shall I go?" Man's origin, man's hereafter, have ever been of <b>intensest</b> interest to man.</span></div></dd></dl></div></li> <li><div class="citation-whole"><span class="cited-source"><span class="None" lang="und"><b>1894</b></span>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Couperus" class="extiw" title="w:Louis Couperus">Louis Couperus</a>, chapter II, in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Teixeira_de_Mattos" class="extiw" title="w:Alexander Teixeira de Mattos">A[lexander] Teixeira de Mattos</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Dowson" class="extiw" title="w:Ernest Dowson">Ernest Dowson</a>, transl., <cite>Majesty</cite>, London: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T._Fisher_Unwin" class="extiw" title="w:T. Fisher Unwin">T[homas] Fisher Unwin</a>, <small><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.worldcat.org/title/559916614">→OCLC</a></small>, section VI, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=JhVDAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA103">page <span class="None" lang="und">103</span></a>:</span><dl><dd><div class="h-quotation"><span class="Latn e-quotation cited-passage" lang="en">And the strange sensation became still stranger within her, <b>intenser</b> in its two constituent parts: <b>intenser</b> in pride, <b>intenser</b> in compassionate love—that of a mistress and a mother in one.</span></div></dd></dl></div></li></ul></li> <li>Of a <a href="/wiki/person#Noun" title="person">person</a>: very <a href="/wiki/emotional#Adjective" title="emotional">emotional</a> or passionate. <dl><dd><div class="h-usage-example"><i class="Latn mention e-example" lang="en">The artist was a small, <b>intense</b> man with piercing blue eyes.</i></div></dd></dl> <ul><li><div class="citation-whole"><span class="cited-source"><b>1879</b> June 14, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_du_Maurier" class="extiw" title="w:George du Maurier">[George du Maurier]</a>, “Refinements of Modern Speech”, in <cite><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punch_(magazine)" class="extiw" title="w:Punch (magazine)">Punch, or The London Charivari</a></cite>, volume LXXVI, London: <span class="q-hellip-sp"> </span><span class="q-hellip-b"><span style="font-style: normal;">[</span></span><span title="Published at the office, 85, Fleet Street, and sold by all booksellers.">…</span><span class="q-hellip-b"><span style="font-style: normal;">]</span></span><span class="q-hellip-b"> </span> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bradbury_and_Evans" class="extiw" title="w:Bradbury and Evans">Bradbury, Agnew, & Co.</a>,<span class="q-hellip-sp"> </span><span class="q-hellip-b"><span style="font-style: normal;">[</span></span><span title="printers, Whitefriars.">…</span><span class="q-hellip-b"><span style="font-style: normal;">]</span></span><span class="q-hellip-b"></span>, <small><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.worldcat.org/title/732224722">→OCLC</a></small>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=6GMPAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA270">page <span class="None" lang="und">270</span></a>:</span><dl><dd><div class="h-quotation"><span class="Latn e-quotation cited-passage" lang="en">Fair Æsthetic (suddenly, and in deepest tones, to Smith, who has just been introduced to take her in to Dinner). "Are you <i><b>Intense</b></i>?"</span></div></dd></dl></div></li></ul></li> <li><span class="usage-label-sense"><span class="ib-brac label-brac">(</span><span class="ib-content label-content">also <a href="/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#figurative" title="Appendix:Glossary">figurative</a></span><span class="ib-brac label-brac">)</span></span> Under <a href="/wiki/tension#Noun" title="tension">tension</a>; <a href="/wiki/tightly" title="tightly">tightly</a> <a href="/wiki/draw#Verb" title="draw">drawn</a>; <a href="/wiki/strained#Adjective" title="strained">strained</a>, <a href="/wiki/stressed#Adjective" title="stressed">stressed</a>, <a href="/wiki/tense#Adjective" title="tense">tense</a>.</li></ol> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Derived_terms">Derived terms</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=intense&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Derived terms"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="list-switcher-wrapper"><div class="list-switcher" data-toggle-category="derived terms"><div class="term-list columns-bg ul-column-count" data-column-count="3"><ul><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/cointense#English" title="cointense">cointense</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/intensely#English" title="intensely">intensely</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/intensen#English" title="intensen">intensen</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/intenseness#English" title="intenseness">intenseness</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/intensification#English" title="intensification">intensification</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/intensify#English" title="intensify">intensify</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/intensity#English" title="intensity">intensity</a></span></li></ul></div></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Related_terms">Related terms</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=intense&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Related terms"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="list-switcher-wrapper"><div class="list-switcher" data-toggle-category="derived terms"><div class="term-list columns-bg ul-column-count" data-column-count="3"><ul><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/disintensify#English" title="disintensify">disintensify</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/intensification#English" title="intensification">intensification</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/intensified#English" title="intensified">intensified</a></span> <span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span><span class="ann-pos">adjective</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/intensifier#English" title="intensifier">intensifier</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/intensifying#English" title="intensifying">intensifying</a></span> <span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span><span class="ann-pos">adjective</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/intensive#English" title="intensive">intensive</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/reintensify#English" title="reintensify">reintensify</a></span></li></ul></div></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Translations">Translations</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=intense&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Translations"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="NavFrame" id="Translations-extreme_or_very_high_or_strong_in_degree"><div class="NavHead" style="text-align:left">extreme or very high or strong in degree</div><div class="NavContent"><table class="translations" role="presentation" data-gloss="extreme or very high or strong in degree"><tbody><tr><td class="translations-cell multicolumn-list" colspan="3"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r81584270">.mw-parser-output .translations{width:100%}.mw-parser-output .translations-cell{background-color:var(--wikt-palette-lightyellow,#FFFFe0);vertical-align:top;text-align:left}</style> <ul><li>Arabic: <span class="Arab" lang="ar"><a href="/wiki/%D8%B4%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%AF#Arabic" title="شديد">شَدِيد</a></span> <span class="gender"><abbr title="masculine gender">m</abbr></span> <span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span><span lang="ar-Latn" class="tr Latn">šadīd</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span></li> <li>Azerbaijani: <span class="Latn" lang="az"><a href="/wiki/g%C9%99rgin#Azerbaijani" title="gərgin">gərgin</a></span></li> <li>Belarusian: <span class="Cyrl" lang="be"><a href="/wiki/%D0%BC%D0%BE%D1%86%D0%BD%D1%8B#Belarusian" title="моцны">моцны</a></span><span class="tpos"> <a href="https://be.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D0%BC%D0%BE%D1%86%D0%BD%D1%8B" class="extiw" title="be:моцны">(be)</a></span> <span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span><span lang="be-Latn" class="tr Latn">mócny</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span>, <span class="Cyrl" lang="be"><a href="/w/index.php?title=%D0%BF%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B7%D0%BC%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%BD%D1%8B&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="празмерны (page does not exist)">празмерны</a></span> <span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span><span lang="be-Latn" class="tr Latn">prazmjerny</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span></li> <li>Bulgarian: <span class="Cyrl" lang="bg"><a href="/wiki/%D0%B8%D0%BD%D1%82%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B7%D0%B8%D0%B2%D0%B5%D0%BD#Bulgarian" title="интензивен">интензивен</a></span><span class="tpos"> <a href="https://bg.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D0%B8%D0%BD%D1%82%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B7%D0%B8%D0%B2%D0%B5%D0%BD" class="extiw" title="bg:интензивен">(bg)</a></span> <span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span><span lang="bg-Latn" class="tr Latn">intenziven</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span></li> <li>Catalan: <span class="Latn" lang="ca"><a href="/wiki/intens#Catalan" title="intens">intens</a></span><span class="tpos"> <a href="https://ca.wiktionary.org/wiki/intens" class="extiw" title="ca:intens">(ca)</a></span></li> <li>Esperanto: <span class="Latn" lang="eo"><a href="/wiki/intensa#Esperanto" title="intensa">intensa</a></span></li> <li>Finnish: <span class="Latn" lang="fi"><a href="/wiki/%C3%A4%C3%A4ri-#Finnish" title="ääri-">ääri-</a></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="fi"><a href="/wiki/huikea#Finnish" title="huikea">huikea</a></span><span class="tpos"> <a href="https://fi.wiktionary.org/wiki/huikea" class="extiw" title="fi:huikea">(fi)</a></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="fi"><a href="/wiki/huima#Finnish" title="huima">huima</a></span><span class="tpos"> <a href="https://fi.wiktionary.org/wiki/huima" class="extiw" title="fi:huima">(fi)</a></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="fi"><a href="/wiki/hurja#Finnish" title="hurja">hurja</a></span><span class="tpos"> <a href="https://fi.wiktionary.org/wiki/hurja" class="extiw" title="fi:hurja">(fi)</a></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="fi"><a href="/wiki/kova#Finnish" title="kova">kova</a></span><span class="tpos"> <a href="https://fi.wiktionary.org/wiki/kova" class="extiw" title="fi:kova">(fi)</a></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="fi"><a href="/wiki/raju#Finnish" title="raju">raju</a></span><span class="tpos"> <a href="https://fi.wiktionary.org/wiki/raju" class="extiw" title="fi:raju">(fi)</a></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="fi"><a href="/wiki/ylenpalttinen#Finnish" title="ylenpalttinen">ylenpalttinen</a></span><span class="tpos"> <a href="https://fi.wiktionary.org/wiki/ylenpalttinen" class="extiw" title="fi:ylenpalttinen">(fi)</a></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="fi"><a href="/wiki/ylet%C3%B6n#Finnish" title="yletön">yletön</a></span><span class="tpos"> <a href="https://fi.wiktionary.org/wiki/ylet%C3%B6n" class="extiw" title="fi:yletön">(fi)</a></span></li> <li>Galician: <span class="Latn" lang="gl"><a href="/wiki/intenso#Galician" title="intenso">intenso</a></span><span class="tpos"> <a href="https://gl.wiktionary.org/wiki/intenso" class="extiw" title="gl:intenso">(gl)</a></span> <span class="gender"><abbr title="masculine gender">m</abbr></span></li> <li>German: <span class="Latn" lang="de"><a href="/wiki/hochgradig#German" title="hochgradig">hochgradig</a></span><span class="tpos"> <a href="https://de.wiktionary.org/wiki/hochgradig" class="extiw" title="de:hochgradig">(de)</a></span></li> <li>Greek: <dl><dd>Ancient: <span class="Polyt" lang="grc"><a href="/wiki/%CF%83%CF%86%CE%BF%CE%B4%CF%81%CF%8C%CF%82#Ancient_Greek" title="σφοδρός">σφοδρός</a></span> <span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span><span lang="grc-Latn" class="tr Latn">sphodrós</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span>, <span class="Polyt" lang="grc"><a href="/w/index.php?title=%CF%83%CF%8D%CE%BD%CF%84%CE%BF%CE%BD%CE%BF%CF%82&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="σύντονος (page does not exist)">σύντονος</a></span> <span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span><span lang="grc-Latn" class="tr Latn">súntonos</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span></dd></dl></li> <li>Irish: <span class="Latn" lang="ga"><a href="/wiki/an-#Irish" title="an-">an-</a></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="ga"><a href="/wiki/dian#Irish" title="dian">dian</a></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="ga"><a href="/w/index.php?title=dian-&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="dian- (page does not exist)">dian-</a></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="ga"><a href="/w/index.php?title=tr%C3%A9an-&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="tréan- (page does not exist)">tréan-</a></span></li> <li>Italian: <span class="Latn" lang="it"><a href="/wiki/intenso#Italian" title="intenso">intenso</a></span><span class="tpos"> <a href="https://it.wiktionary.org/wiki/intenso" class="extiw" title="it:intenso">(it)</a></span></li> <li>Macedonian: <span class="Cyrl" lang="mk"><a href="/wiki/%D1%81%D0%B8%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BD#Macedonian" title="силен">си́лен</a></span> <span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span><span lang="mk-Latn" class="tr Latn">sílen</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span>, <span class="Cyrl" lang="mk"><a href="/wiki/%D0%BF%D1%80%D0%B5%D1%82%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BD#Macedonian" title="претеран">пре́теран</a></span> <span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span><span lang="mk-Latn" class="tr Latn">préteran</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span>, <span class="Cyrl" lang="mk"><a href="/wiki/%D0%BF%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%BA%D1%83%D0%BC%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%BD#Macedonian" title="прекумерен">преку́мерен</a></span> <span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span><span lang="mk-Latn" class="tr Latn">prekúmeren</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span></li> <li>Malay: <span class="Latn" lang="ms"><a href="/wiki/amat#Malay" title="amat">amat</a></span><span class="tpos"> <a href="https://ms.wiktionary.org/wiki/amat" class="extiw" title="ms:amat">(ms)</a></span></li> <li>Maori: <span class="Latn" lang="mi"><a href="/w/index.php?title=kitakita&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="kitakita (page does not exist)">kitakita</a></span> <span class="ib-brac qualifier-brac">(</span><span class="ib-content qualifier-content">of colour</span><span class="ib-brac qualifier-brac">)</span>, <span class="Latn" lang="mi"><a href="/w/index.php?title=m%C4%81taratara&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="mātaratara (page does not exist)">mātaratara</a></span> <span class="ib-brac qualifier-brac">(</span><span class="ib-content qualifier-content">of cold</span><span class="ib-brac qualifier-brac">)</span>, <span class="Latn" lang="mi"><a href="/wiki/ngoto#Maori" title="ngoto">ngoto</a></span> <span class="ib-brac qualifier-brac">(</span><span class="ib-content qualifier-content">of emotions</span><span class="ib-brac qualifier-brac">)</span>, <span class="Latn" lang="mi"><a href="/w/index.php?title=t%C4%ABwerawera&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="tīwerawera (page does not exist)">tīwerawera</a></span> <span class="ib-brac qualifier-brac">(</span><span class="ib-content qualifier-content">of noise, sound</span><span class="ib-brac qualifier-brac">)</span></li> <li>Mari: <dl><dd>Eastern Mari: <span class="Cyrl" lang="mhr"><a href="/wiki/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%8F%D0%BD#Eastern_Mari" title="виян">виян</a></span> <span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span><span lang="mhr-Latn" class="tr Latn">vijan</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span></dd></dl></li> <li>Middle English: <span class="Latn" lang="enm"><a href="/wiki/sad#Middle_English" title="sad">sad</a></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="enm"><a href="/wiki/stith#Middle_English" title="stith">stith</a></span></li> <li>Norwegian: <dl><dd>Bokmål: <span class="Latn" lang="nb"><a href="/wiki/intensiv#Norwegian_Bokmål" title="intensiv">intensiv</a></span></dd> <dd>Nynorsk: <span class="Latn" lang="nn"><a href="/wiki/intensiv#Norwegian_Nynorsk" title="intensiv">intensiv</a></span></dd></dl></li> <li>Portuguese: <span class="Latn" lang="pt"><a href="/wiki/intenso#Portuguese" title="intenso">intenso</a></span><span class="tpos"> <a href="https://pt.wiktionary.org/wiki/intenso" class="extiw" title="pt:intenso">(pt)</a></span></li> <li>Romanian: <span class="Latn" lang="ro"><a href="/wiki/intens#Romanian" title="intens">intens</a></span><span class="tpos"> <a href="https://ro.wiktionary.org/wiki/intens" class="extiw" title="ro:intens">(ro)</a></span></li> <li>Russian: <span class="Cyrl" lang="ru"><a href="/wiki/%D1%81%D0%B8%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%BD%D1%8B%D0%B9#Russian" title="сильный">си́льный</a></span><span class="tpos"> <a href="https://ru.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D1%81%D0%B8%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%BD%D1%8B%D0%B9" class="extiw" title="ru:сильный">(ru)</a></span> <span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span><span lang="ru-Latn" class="tr Latn">sílʹnyj</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span>, <span class="Cyrl" lang="ru"><a href="/wiki/%D0%B8%D0%BD%D1%82%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%81%D0%B8%D0%B2%D0%BD%D1%8B%D0%B9#Russian" title="интенсивный">интенси́вный</a></span><span class="tpos"> <a href="https://ru.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D0%B8%D0%BD%D1%82%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%81%D0%B8%D0%B2%D0%BD%D1%8B%D0%B9" class="extiw" title="ru:интенсивный">(ru)</a></span> <span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span><span lang="ru-Latn" class="tr Latn">intensívnyj</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span></li> <li>Sanskrit: <span class="Deva" lang="sa"><a href="/wiki/%E0%A4%A6%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%81%E0%A4%A3#Sanskrit" title="दारुण">दारुण</a></span><span class="tpos"> <a href="https://sa.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E0%A4%A6%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%81%E0%A4%A3" class="extiw" title="sa:दारुण">(sa)</a></span> <span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span><span lang="sa-Latn" class="tr Latn">dāruṇa</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span></li> <li>Spanish: <span class="Latn" lang="es"><a href="/wiki/intenso#Spanish" title="intenso">intenso</a></span><span class="tpos"> <a href="https://es.wiktionary.org/wiki/intenso" class="extiw" title="es:intenso">(es)</a></span></li></ul> </td></tr></tbody></table></div></div> <div class="pseudo NavFrame" id="Translations-excessive"><div class="NavHead" style="text-align:left">excessive <span style="font-weight:normal">— <i>see </i></span><a href="/wiki/excessive#Translations" title="excessive">excessive</a></div></div> <div class="NavFrame" id="Translations-of_a_thing:_possessing_some_characteristic_to_an_extreme_or_very_high_or_strong_degree"><div class="NavHead" style="text-align:left">of a thing: possessing some characteristic to an extreme or very high or strong degree</div><div class="NavContent"><table class="translations" role="presentation" data-gloss="of a thing: possessing some characteristic to an extreme or very high or strong degree"><tbody><tr><td class="translations-cell multicolumn-list" colspan="3"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r81584270" /> <ul><li>Finnish: <span class="Latn" lang="fi"><a href="/wiki/kiihke%C3%A4#Finnish" title="kiihkeä">kiihkeä</a></span><span class="tpos"> <a href="https://fi.wiktionary.org/wiki/kiihke%C3%A4" class="extiw" title="fi:kiihkeä">(fi)</a></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="fi"><a href="/wiki/kiivas#Finnish" title="kiivas">kiivas</a></span><span class="tpos"> <a href="https://fi.wiktionary.org/wiki/kiivas" class="extiw" title="fi:kiivas">(fi)</a></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="fi"><a href="/wiki/voimakas#Finnish" title="voimakas">voimakas</a></span><span class="tpos"> <a href="https://fi.wiktionary.org/wiki/voimakas" class="extiw" title="fi:voimakas">(fi)</a></span></li> <li>Macedonian: <span class="trreq" data-lang="mk"><i>please add this translation if you can</i></span></li> <li>Russian: <span class="Cyrl" lang="ru"><a href="/wiki/%D1%8F%D1%80%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B9#Russian" title="яркий">я́ркий</a></span><span class="tpos"> <a href="https://ru.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D1%8F%D1%80%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B9" class="extiw" title="ru:яркий">(ru)</a></span> <span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span><span lang="ru-Latn" class="tr Latn">járkij</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span> <span class="ib-brac qualifier-brac">(</span><span class="ib-content qualifier-content">of light</span><span class="ib-brac qualifier-brac">)</span></li></ul> </td></tr></tbody></table></div></div> <div class="NavFrame" id="Translations-of_feelings,_thoughts,_etc.:_strongly_focused"><div class="NavHead" style="text-align:left">of feelings, thoughts, etc.: strongly focused <span style="font-weight:normal">— <i>see also </i></span><a href="/wiki/ardent#Translations" title="ardent">ardent</a>,‎ <a href="/wiki/earnest#Translations" title="earnest">earnest</a>,‎ <a href="/wiki/passionate#Translations" title="passionate">passionate</a></div><div class="NavContent"><table class="translations" role="presentation" data-gloss="of feelings, thoughts, etc.: strongly focused"><tbody><tr><td class="translations-cell multicolumn-list" colspan="3"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r81584270" /> <ul><li>Finnish: <span class="Latn" lang="fi"><a href="/wiki/kiihke%C3%A4#Finnish" title="kiihkeä">kiihkeä</a></span><span class="tpos"> <a href="https://fi.wiktionary.org/wiki/kiihke%C3%A4" class="extiw" title="fi:kiihkeä">(fi)</a></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="fi"><a href="/wiki/kiivas#Finnish" title="kiivas">kiivas</a></span><span class="tpos"> <a href="https://fi.wiktionary.org/wiki/kiivas" class="extiw" title="fi:kiivas">(fi)</a></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="fi"><a href="/wiki/voimakas#Finnish" title="voimakas">voimakas</a></span><span class="tpos"> <a href="https://fi.wiktionary.org/wiki/voimakas" class="extiw" title="fi:voimakas">(fi)</a></span></li> <li>Macedonian: <span class="trreq" data-lang="mk"><i>please add this translation if you can</i></span></li> <li>Russian: <span class="Cyrl" lang="ru"><a href="/wiki/%D1%81%D1%82%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%82%D0%BD%D1%8B%D0%B9#Russian" title="страстный">стра́стный</a></span><span class="tpos"> <a href="https://ru.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D1%81%D1%82%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%82%D0%BD%D1%8B%D0%B9" class="extiw" title="ru:страстный">(ru)</a></span> <span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span><span lang="ru-Latn" class="tr Latn">strástnyj</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span></li></ul> </td></tr></tbody></table></div></div> <div class="NavFrame" id="Translations-of_a_person:_very_emotional_or_passionate"><div class="NavHead" style="text-align:left">of a person: very emotional or passionate</div><div class="NavContent"><table class="translations" role="presentation" data-gloss="of a person: very emotional or passionate"><tbody><tr><td class="translations-cell multicolumn-list" colspan="3"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r81584270" /> <ul><li>Finnish: <span class="Latn" lang="fi"><a href="/wiki/kiihke%C3%A4#Finnish" title="kiihkeä">kiihkeä</a></span><span class="tpos"> <a href="https://fi.wiktionary.org/wiki/kiihke%C3%A4" class="extiw" title="fi:kiihkeä">(fi)</a></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="fi"><a href="/wiki/kiivas#Finnish" title="kiivas">kiivas</a></span><span class="tpos"> <a href="https://fi.wiktionary.org/wiki/kiivas" class="extiw" title="fi:kiivas">(fi)</a></span></li> <li>Macedonian: <span class="trreq" data-lang="mk"><i>please add this translation if you can</i></span></li> <li>Russian: <span class="Cyrl" lang="ru"><a href="/wiki/%D1%81%D1%82%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%82%D0%BD%D1%8B%D0%B9#Russian" title="страстный">стра́стный</a></span><span class="tpos"> <a href="https://ru.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D1%81%D1%82%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%82%D0%BD%D1%8B%D0%B9" class="extiw" title="ru:страстный">(ru)</a></span> <span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span><span lang="ru-Latn" class="tr Latn">strástnyj</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span></li></ul> </td></tr></tbody></table></div></div> <div class="NavFrame" id="Translations-under_tension"><div class="NavHead" style="text-align:left">under tension <span style="font-weight:normal">— <i>see also </i></span><a href="/wiki/strained#Translations" title="strained">strained</a>,‎ <a href="/wiki/tense#Translations" title="tense">tense</a></div><div class="NavContent"><table class="translations" role="presentation" data-gloss="under tension"><tbody><tr><td class="translations-cell multicolumn-list" colspan="3"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r81584270" /> <ul><li>Azerbaijani: <span class="Latn" lang="az"><a href="/wiki/g%C9%99rgin#Azerbaijani" title="gərgin">gərgin</a></span></li> <li>Basque: <span class="Latn" lang="eu"><a href="/wiki/bizi#Basque" title="bizi">bizi</a></span></li> <li>Belarusian: <span class="Cyrl" lang="be"><a href="/w/index.php?title=%D1%96%D0%BD%D1%82%D1%8D%D0%BD%D1%81%D1%8B%D1%9E%D0%BD%D1%8B&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="інтэнсыўны (page does not exist)">інтэнсы́ўны</a></span> <span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span><span lang="be-Latn" class="tr Latn">intensýŭny</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span></li> <li>Bulgarian: <span class="Cyrl" lang="bg"><a href="/wiki/%D0%BD%D0%B0%D0%BF%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%B3%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%82#Bulgarian" title="напрегнат">напрегнат</a></span><span class="tpos"> <a href="https://bg.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D0%BD%D0%B0%D0%BF%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%B3%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%82" class="extiw" title="bg:напрегнат">(bg)</a></span> <span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span><span lang="bg-Latn" class="tr Latn">napregnat</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span></li> <li>Catalan: <span class="Latn" lang="ca"><a href="/wiki/intens#Catalan" title="intens">intens</a></span><span class="tpos"> <a href="https://ca.wiktionary.org/wiki/intens" class="extiw" title="ca:intens">(ca)</a></span></li> <li>Chinese: <dl><dd>Mandarin: <span class="Hani" lang="cmn"><a href="/wiki/%E6%BF%80%E7%83%88#Mandarin" title="激烈">激烈</a></span><span class="tpos"> <a href="https://zh.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E6%BF%80%E7%83%88" class="extiw" title="zh:激烈">(zh)</a></span> <span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span><span lang="cmn-Latn" class="tr Latn">jīliè</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span>, <span class="Hant" lang="cmn"><a href="/wiki/%E5%8A%87%E7%83%88#Mandarin" title="劇烈">劇烈</a></span><span class="Zsym mention" style="font-size:100%;"> / </span><span class="Hans" lang="cmn"><a href="/wiki/%E5%89%A7%E7%83%88#Mandarin" title="剧烈">剧烈</a></span><span class="tpos"> <a href="https://zh.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E5%8A%87%E7%83%88" class="extiw" title="zh:劇烈">(zh)</a></span> <span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span><span lang="cmn-Latn" class="tr Latn">jùliè</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span></dd></dl></li> <li>Czech: <span class="Latn" lang="cs"><a href="/wiki/intenzivn%C3%AD#Czech" title="intenzivní">intenzivní</a></span><span class="tpos"> <a href="https://cs.wiktionary.org/wiki/intenzivn%C3%AD" class="extiw" title="cs:intenzivní">(cs)</a></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="cs"><a href="/wiki/siln%C3%BD#Czech" title="silný">silný</a></span><span class="tpos"> <a href="https://cs.wiktionary.org/wiki/siln%C3%BD" class="extiw" title="cs:silný">(cs)</a></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="cs"><a href="/wiki/v%C3%A1%C5%A1niv%C3%BD#Czech" title="vášnivý">vášnivý</a></span><span class="tpos"> <a href="https://cs.wiktionary.org/wiki/v%C3%A1%C5%A1niv%C3%BD" class="extiw" title="cs:vášnivý">(cs)</a></span></li> <li>Dutch: <span class="Latn" lang="nl"><a href="/wiki/intens#Dutch" title="intens">intens</a></span><span class="tpos"> <a href="https://nl.wiktionary.org/wiki/intens" class="extiw" title="nl:intens">(nl)</a></span></li> <li>Finnish: <span class="Latn" lang="fi"><a href="/wiki/intensiivinen#Finnish" title="intensiivinen">intensiivinen</a></span><span class="tpos"> <a href="https://fi.wiktionary.org/wiki/intensiivinen" class="extiw" title="fi:intensiivinen">(fi)</a></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="fi"><a href="/wiki/%C3%A4%C3%A4rimm%C3%A4inen#Finnish" title="äärimmäinen">äärimmäinen</a></span><span class="tpos"> <a href="https://fi.wiktionary.org/wiki/%C3%A4%C3%A4rimm%C3%A4inen" class="extiw" title="fi:äärimmäinen">(fi)</a></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="fi"><a href="/wiki/kova#Finnish" title="kova">kova</a></span><span class="tpos"> <a href="https://fi.wiktionary.org/wiki/kova" class="extiw" title="fi:kova">(fi)</a></span></li> <li>French: <span class="Latn" lang="fr"><a class="mw-selflink-fragment" href="#French">intense</a></span><span class="tpos"> <a href="https://fr.wiktionary.org/wiki/intense" class="extiw" title="fr:intense">(fr)</a></span></li> <li>Galician: <span class="Latn" lang="gl"><a href="/wiki/intenso#Galician" title="intenso">intenso</a></span><span class="tpos"> <a href="https://gl.wiktionary.org/wiki/intenso" class="extiw" title="gl:intenso">(gl)</a></span> <span class="gender"><abbr title="masculine gender">m</abbr></span></li> <li>German: <span class="Latn" lang="de"><a href="/wiki/intensiv#German" title="intensiv">intensiv</a></span><span class="tpos"> <a href="https://de.wiktionary.org/wiki/intensiv" class="extiw" title="de:intensiv">(de)</a></span></li> <li>Greek: <dl><dd>Ancient: <span class="Polyt" lang="grc"><a href="/w/index.php?title=%CF%83%CF%8D%CE%BD%CF%84%CE%BF%CE%BD%CE%BF%CF%82&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="σύντονος (page does not exist)">σύντονος</a></span> <span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span><span lang="grc-Latn" class="tr Latn">súntonos</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span></dd></dl></li> <li>Ido: <span class="Latn" lang="io"><a href="/wiki/intensa#Ido" title="intensa">intensa</a></span><span class="tpos"> <a href="https://io.wiktionary.org/wiki/intensa" class="extiw" title="io:intensa">(io)</a></span></li> <li>Indonesian: <span class="Latn" lang="id"><a href="/wiki/intens#Indonesian" title="intens">intens</a></span><span class="tpos"> <a href="https://id.wiktionary.org/wiki/intens" class="extiw" title="id:intens">(id)</a></span></li> <li>Irish: <span class="Latn" lang="ga"><a href="/wiki/dl%C3%BAth#Irish" title="dlúth">dlúth</a></span></li> <li>Italian: <span class="Latn" lang="it"><a href="/wiki/intenso#Italian" title="intenso">intenso</a></span><span class="tpos"> <a href="https://it.wiktionary.org/wiki/intenso" class="extiw" title="it:intenso">(it)</a></span></li> <li>Japanese: <span class="Jpan" lang="ja"><a href="/wiki/%E6%BF%80%E7%83%88#Japanese" title="激烈">激烈な</a></span><span class="tpos"> <a href="https://ja.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E6%BF%80%E7%83%88" class="extiw" title="ja:激烈">(ja)</a></span> <span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span><span class="tr">げきれつな, gekiretsu-na</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span>, <span class="Jpan" lang="ja"><a href="/wiki/%E3%81%8D%E3%81%A4%E3%81%84#Japanese" title="きつい">きつい</a></span><span class="tpos"> <a href="https://ja.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E3%81%8D%E3%81%A4%E3%81%84" class="extiw" title="ja:きつい">(ja)</a></span> <span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span><span class="tr">kitsui</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span></li> <li>Macedonian: <span class="Cyrl" lang="mk"><a href="/wiki/%D0%BD%D0%B0%D0%BF%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%B3%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%82#Macedonian" title="напрегнат">на́прегнат</a></span> <span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span><span lang="mk-Latn" class="tr Latn">nápregnat</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span></li> <li>Polish: <span class="Latn" lang="pl"><a href="/wiki/intensywny#Polish" title="intensywny">intensywny</a></span><span class="tpos"> <a href="https://pl.wiktionary.org/wiki/intensywny" class="extiw" title="pl:intensywny">(pl)</a></span></li> <li>Portuguese: <span class="Latn" lang="pt"><a href="/wiki/tenso#Portuguese" title="tenso">tenso</a></span><span class="tpos"> <a href="https://pt.wiktionary.org/wiki/tenso" class="extiw" title="pt:tenso">(pt)</a></span></li> <li>Romanian: <span class="Latn" lang="ro"><a href="/wiki/intens#Romanian" title="intens">intens</a></span><span class="tpos"> <a href="https://ro.wiktionary.org/wiki/intens" class="extiw" title="ro:intens">(ro)</a></span></li> <li>Russian: <span class="Cyrl" lang="ru"><a href="/wiki/%D0%B8%D0%BD%D1%82%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%81%D0%B8%D0%B2%D0%BD%D1%8B%D0%B9#Russian" title="интенсивный">интенси́вный</a></span><span class="tpos"> <a href="https://ru.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D0%B8%D0%BD%D1%82%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%81%D0%B8%D0%B2%D0%BD%D1%8B%D0%B9" class="extiw" title="ru:интенсивный">(ru)</a></span> <span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span><span lang="ru-Latn" class="tr Latn">intensívnyj</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span>, <span class="Cyrl" lang="ru"><a href="/wiki/%D0%BD%D0%B0%D0%BF%D1%80%D1%8F%D0%B6%D1%91%D0%BD%D0%BD%D1%8B%D0%B9#Russian" title="напряжённый">напряжённый</a></span><span class="tpos"> <a href="https://ru.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D0%BD%D0%B0%D0%BF%D1%80%D1%8F%D0%B6%D1%91%D0%BD%D0%BD%D1%8B%D0%B9" class="extiw" title="ru:напряжённый">(ru)</a></span> <span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span><span lang="ru-Latn" class="tr Latn">naprjažónnyj</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span></li> <li>Spanish: <span class="Latn" lang="es"><a href="/wiki/intenso#Spanish" title="intenso">intenso</a></span><span class="tpos"> <a href="https://es.wiktionary.org/wiki/intenso" class="extiw" title="es:intenso">(es)</a></span></li> <li>Turkish: <span class="Latn" lang="tr"><a href="/wiki/yo%C4%9Fun#Turkish" title="yoğun">yoğun</a></span><span class="tpos"> <a href="https://tr.wiktionary.org/wiki/yo%C4%9Fun" class="extiw" title="tr:yoğun">(tr)</a></span></li> <li>Ukrainian: <span class="Cyrl" lang="uk"><a href="/wiki/%D1%96%D0%BD%D1%82%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%81%D0%B8%D0%B2%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%B9#Ukrainian" title="інтенсивний">інтенси́вний</a></span> <span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span><span lang="uk-Latn" class="tr Latn">intensývnyj</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span></li> <li>Welsh: <span class="Latn" lang="cy"><a href="/wiki/dwys#Welsh" title="dwys">dwys</a></span><span class="tpos"> <a href="https://cy.wiktionary.org/wiki/dwys" class="extiw" title="cy:dwys">(cy)</a></span></li></ul> </td></tr></tbody></table></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="References">References</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=intense&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><a href="#cite_ref-1"> ^ </a> <span class="reference-text">“<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/middle-english-dictionary/dictionary/MED23075">intens(e, <i>adj.</i></a>”, in <span class="citation-whole"><span class="cited-source"><cite><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_English_Dictionary" class="extiw" title="w:Middle English Dictionary">MED Online</a></cite>, Ann Arbor, Mich.: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Michigan" class="extiw" title="w:University of Michigan">University of Michigan</a>, <span class="None" lang="und">2007</span></span></span>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><a href="#cite_ref-2"> ^ </a> <span class="reference-text">Compare <span class="citation-whole"><span class="cited-source">“<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.1093/OED/3378068132">intense, <i>adj.</i></a>”, in <cite><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford_English_Dictionary#Electronic_versions" class="extiw" title="w:Oxford English Dictionary">OED Online</a> <span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Lock-red.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Paid subscription required"><img alt="Paid subscription required" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b7/Lock-red.svg/8px-Lock-red.svg.png" decoding="async" width="8" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b7/Lock-red.svg/12px-Lock-red.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b7/Lock-red.svg/16px-Lock-red.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="813" /></a></span>⁠</cite>, Oxford: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford_University_Press" class="extiw" title="w:Oxford University Press">Oxford University Press</a>, <span class="None" lang="und">July 2023</span></span></span>; <span class="citation-whole"><span class="cited-source">“<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/https://www.lexico.com/definition/intense">intense, <i>adj.</i></a>”, in <cite><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lexico" class="extiw" title="w:Lexico">Lexico</a></cite>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dictionary.com" class="extiw" title="w:Dictionary.com">Dictionary.com</a>; <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford_University_Press" class="extiw" title="w:Oxford University Press">Oxford University Press</a>, <span class="None" lang="und">2019–2022</span></span></span>.</span> </li> </ol></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Further_reading">Further reading</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=intense&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Further reading"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/intense" title="w:intense"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/80/Wikipedia-logo-v2.svg/20px-Wikipedia-logo-v2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="15" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/80/Wikipedia-logo-v2.svg/40px-Wikipedia-logo-v2.svg.png 1.5x" data-file-width="103" data-file-height="94" /></a></span> <b class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/intense" class="extiw" title="w:intense">intensity (disambiguation)</a></b> on Wikipedia.<span class="interProject"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/intense" class="extiw" title="w:intense">Wikipedia </a></span></li> <li><span class="citation-whole"><span class="cited-source"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Dwight_Whitney" class="extiw" title="w:William Dwight Whitney">William Dwight Whitney</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Eli_Smith" class="extiw" title="w:Benjamin Eli Smith">Benjamin E[li] Smith</a>, editors (<span class="None" lang="und">1911</span>), “<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://server-66-113-234-189.da.direct/century-dictionary.com/html/wnph-chw.php?query=intense&type=dicts">intense</a>”, in <cite><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Century_Dictionary" class="extiw" title="w:Century Dictionary">The Century Dictionary<span class="q-hellip-sp"> </span><span class="q-hellip-b"><span style="font-style: normal;">[</span></span><span title="and Cyclopedia: With a New Atlas of the World; a Work of General Reference in All Departments of Knowledge in Twelve Volumes">…</span><span class="q-hellip-b"><span style="font-style: normal;">]</span></span><span class="q-hellip-b"></span></a></cite>, New York, N.Y.: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Century_Company" class="extiw" title="w:The Century Company">The Century Co.</a>, <small><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.worldcat.org/title/867766587">→OCLC</a></small>.</span></span></li> <li><span class="citation-whole"><span class="cited-source">“<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.websters1913.com/words/Intense">intense</a>”, in <cite><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webster%27s_Dictionary#Webster's_New_International_Dictionary_1909" class="extiw" title="w:Webster's Dictionary">Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary</a></cite>, Springfield, Mass.: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merriam-Webster" class="extiw" title="w:Merriam-Webster">G. & C. Merriam</a>, <span class="None" lang="und">1913</span>, <small><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.worldcat.org/title/800618302">→OCLC</a></small>.</span></span></li> <li><span class="citation-whole"><span class="cited-source">“<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.onelook.com/?w=intense&ls=a">intense</a>”, in <cite>OneLook Dictionary Search</cite>.</span></span></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Anagrams">Anagrams</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=intense&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Anagrams"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/enseint#English" title="enseint">enseint</a></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/sentine#English" title="sentine">sentine</a></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/tennesi#English" title="tennesi">tennesi</a></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/tennies#English" title="tennies">tennies</a></span></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Dutch">Dutch</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=intense&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Dutch"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Pronunciation_2">Pronunciation</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=intense&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Pronunciation"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r50165410" /><table class="audiotable" style="vertical-align: middle; display: inline-block; list-style: none; line-height: 1em; border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0;"><tbody><tr><td>Audio<span class="ib-colon qualifier-colon">:</span></td><td class="audiofile"><span typeof="mw:File"><span><audio id="mwe_player_1" controls="" preload="none" data-mw-tmh="" class="mw-file-element" width="175" style="width:175px;" data-durationhint="2" data-mwtitle="Nl-intense.ogg" data-mwprovider="wikimediacommons"><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bd/Nl-intense.ogg" type="audio/ogg; codecs="vorbis"" data-width="0" data-height="0" /><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/b/bd/Nl-intense.ogg/Nl-intense.ogg.mp3" type="audio/mpeg" data-transcodekey="mp3" data-width="0" data-height="0" /></audio></span></span></td><td class="audiometa" style="font-size: 80%;">(<a href="/wiki/File:Nl-intense.ogg" title="File:Nl-intense.ogg">file</a>)</td></tr></tbody></table></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Adjective_2">Adjective</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=intense&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Adjective"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><span class="headword-line"><strong class="Latn headword" lang="nl">intense</strong></span> </p> <ol><li><span class="form-of-definition use-with-mention">inflection of <span class="form-of-definition-link"><i class="Latn mention" lang="nl"><a href="/wiki/intens#Dutch" title="intens">intens</a></i></span>:</span> <ol><li><span class="form-of-definition use-with-mention"><span class="inflection-of-conjoined"><a href="/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#gender" title="Appendix:Glossary">masculine</a><span class="inflection-of-sep">/</span><a href="/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#gender" title="Appendix:Glossary">feminine</a></span> <a href="/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#singular_number" title="Appendix:Glossary">singular</a> <a href="/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#attributive" title="Appendix:Glossary">attributive</a></span></li> <li><span class="form-of-definition use-with-mention"><a href="/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#definite" title="Appendix:Glossary">definite</a> <a href="/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#gender" title="Appendix:Glossary">neuter</a> <a href="/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#singular_number" title="Appendix:Glossary">singular</a> <a href="/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#attributive" title="Appendix:Glossary">attributive</a></span></li> <li><span class="form-of-definition use-with-mention"><a href="/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#plural_number" title="Appendix:Glossary">plural</a> <a href="/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#attributive" title="Appendix:Glossary">attributive</a></span></li></ol></li></ol> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Anagrams_2">Anagrams</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=intense&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Anagrams"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><span class="Latn" lang="nl"><a href="/wiki/niesten#Dutch" title="niesten">niesten</a></span></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="French">French</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=intense&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: French"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Etymology_2">Etymology</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=intense&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Etymology"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#inherited" title="Appendix:Glossary">Inherited</a> from <span class="etyl"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_French" class="extiw" title="w:Middle French">Middle French</a></span> <i class="Latn mention" lang="frm"><a class="mw-selflink-fragment" href="#Middle_French">intense</a></i>, from <span class="etyl"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_French" class="extiw" title="w:Old French">Old French</a></span> <i class="Latn mention" lang="fro"><a class="mw-selflink-fragment" href="#Old_French">intense</a></i>, which was borrowed from <span class="etyl"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin" class="extiw" title="w:Latin">Latin</a></span> <i class="Latn mention" lang="la"><a href="/wiki/intensus#Latin" title="intensus">intēnsus</a></i>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Pronunciation_3">Pronunciation</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=intense&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: Pronunciation"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wiktionary:International_Phonetic_Alphabet" title="Wiktionary:International Phonetic Alphabet">IPA</a><sup>(<a href="/wiki/Appendix:French_pronunciation" title="Appendix:French pronunciation">key</a>)</sup>: <span class="IPA">/ɛ̃.tɑ̃s/</span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r50165410" /><table class="audiotable" style="vertical-align: middle; display: inline-block; list-style: none; line-height: 1em; border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0;"><tbody><tr><td>Audio<span class="ib-colon qualifier-colon">:</span></td><td class="audiofile"><span typeof="mw:File"><span><audio id="mwe_player_2" controls="" preload="none" data-mw-tmh="" class="mw-file-element" width="175" style="width:175px;" data-durationhint="2" data-mwtitle="Fr-intense.ogg" data-mwprovider="wikimediacommons"><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2d/Fr-intense.ogg" type="audio/ogg; codecs="vorbis"" data-width="0" data-height="0" /><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/2/2d/Fr-intense.ogg/Fr-intense.ogg.mp3" type="audio/mpeg" data-transcodekey="mp3" data-width="0" data-height="0" /></audio></span></span></td><td class="audiometa" style="font-size: 80%;">(<a href="/wiki/File:Fr-intense.ogg" title="File:Fr-intense.ogg">file</a>)</td></tr></tbody></table></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Adjective_3">Adjective</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=intense&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: Adjective"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><span class="headword-line"><strong class="Latn headword" lang="fr">intense</strong> (<i>plural</i> <b class="Latn form-of lang-fr p-form-of" lang="fr"><a href="/wiki/intenses#French" title="intenses">intenses</a></b>)</span> </p> <ol><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a class="mw-selflink-fragment" href="#English">intense</a></span></li></ol> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Related_terms_2">Related terms</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=intense&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: Related terms"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="list-switcher-wrapper"><div class="list-switcher" data-toggle-category="derived terms"><div class="term-list columns-bg ul-column-count" data-column-count="2"><ul><li><span class="Latn" lang="fr"><a href="/wiki/intens%C3%A9ment#French" title="intensément">intensément</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="fr"><a href="/wiki/intensif#French" title="intensif">intensif</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="fr"><a href="/wiki/intensification#French" title="intensification">intensification</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="fr"><a href="/wiki/intensifier#French" title="intensifier">intensifier</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="fr"><a href="/wiki/intensit%C3%A9#French" title="intensité">intensité</a></span></li><li><span class="Latn" lang="fr"><a href="/wiki/intensivement#French" title="intensivement">intensivement</a></span></li></ul></div></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Descendants">Descendants</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=intense&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: Descendants"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><span class="desc-arr" title="borrowed">→</span> Dutch: <span class="Latn" lang="nl"><a href="/wiki/intens#Dutch" title="intens">intens</a></span><ul><li><span class="desc-arr" title="borrowed">→</span> Indonesian: <span class="Latn" lang="id"><a href="/wiki/intens#Indonesian" title="intens">intens</a></span><style 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normal;">[</span>Digitized Treasury of the French Language<span style="font-style: normal;">]</span></cite>, <span class="None" lang="und">2012</span></span></span>.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Anagrams_3">Anagrams</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=intense&action=edit&section=22" title="Edit section: Anagrams"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><span class="Latn" lang="fr"><a href="/wiki/seinent#French" title="seinent">seinent</a></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="fr"><a href="/wiki/tiennes#French" title="tiennes">tiennes</a></span></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Interlingua">Interlingua</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=intense&action=edit&section=23" title="Edit section: Interlingua"><span>edit</span></a><span 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class="headword-line"><strong class="Latn headword" lang="it">intense</strong> <span class="gender"><abbr title="feminine gender">f</abbr> <abbr title="plural number">pl</abbr></span></span> </p> <ol><li><span class="form-of-definition use-with-mention"><a href="/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#gender" title="Appendix:Glossary">feminine</a> <a href="/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#plural_number" title="Appendix:Glossary">plural</a> of <span class="form-of-definition-link"><i class="Latn mention" lang="it"><a href="/wiki/intenso#Italian" title="intenso">intenso</a></i></span></span></li></ol> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Anagrams_4">Anagrams</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=intense&action=edit&section=28" title="Edit section: Anagrams"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><span class="Latn" lang="it"><a href="/wiki/sentine#Italian" title="sentine">sentine</a></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="it"><a href="/wiki/tensine#Italian" title="tensine">tensine</a></span></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Latin">Latin</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=intense&action=edit&section=29" title="Edit section: Latin"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Adjective_6">Adjective</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=intense&action=edit&section=30" title="Edit section: Adjective"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><span class="headword-line"><strong class="Latn headword" lang="la">intēnse</strong></span> </p> <ol><li><span class="form-of-definition use-with-mention"><a href="/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#vocative_case" title="Appendix:Glossary">vocative</a> <a href="/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#gender" title="Appendix:Glossary">masculine</a> <a href="/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#singular_number" title="Appendix:Glossary">singular</a> of <span class="form-of-definition-link"><i class="Latn mention" lang="la"><a href="/wiki/intensus#Latin" title="intensus">intēnsus</a></i></span></span></li></ol> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Norwegian_Bokmål"><span id="Norwegian_Bokm.C3.A5l"></span>Norwegian Bokmål</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=intense&action=edit&section=31" title="Edit section: Norwegian Bokmål"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Adjective_7">Adjective</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=intense&action=edit&section=32" title="Edit section: Adjective"><span>edit</span></a><span 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