intensively
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3.9
- adverb
- /ɪnˈtɛnsɪvli/
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intensamente
- The students studied intensively for their final exams to ensure they understood all the material.
- intensively managed
- intensively studied
- worked intensively
He said, we farm extensively, not intensively.
- He said, we farm extensively, not intensively.
- But how long has it been since you've been like writing that intensively?
- So I'm thinking about, you know, some of these more practical issues in in about virtual worlds quite intensively.
- It brings out some consequences, one of these consequences very intensively, the feeling of many people not being enough.
- It's very it's being it's being studied very intensively by a lot of people are thinking mainly in the States.
- Some you might not need to intensively do every little thing and beyond that, you are less fragile than you think you are.
Examples
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Even skilled employees were often forced to work longer and more intensively if the work was available in order to sustain their living standards.
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Common across these reforms is a focus on intervening early and intensively to address reading problems.
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You mentioned having like going through periods of lots of writing intensively or reading intensively.
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In the history of medicine, there is not a disease that has been studied as intensively as AIDS.
Academic text (2013) -
Yet, because of their great importance to humans, mosquitoes have been intensively studied.
Academic text (1992) -
Teachers are working in those educational areas and are responsible for ensuring that preschoolers learn intensively.
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Since then, the curriculum has focused more intensively on biological diversity conservation and wildlife and wildland management.
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Now we are farming much more intensively large swaths of our planet to feed chickens and cows and pigs.
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Long a densely populated country, China has always had one of the most intensively exploited environments in the world.
Academic text (2011) -
Since controversial political issues are brought to the agenda more intensively during electoral periods, such periods can escalate political tensions.
Academic text (2017)
Synonyms
88
3.1
In a very strong or focused way
38
4.1
In a careful and steady way that shows hard work
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5.5
With great effort and determination
5
7.7
To do something carefully and with steady effort
5
6.6
With a lot of effort in a slow, tiring way
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7.8
In a way that needs great effort and long hard work
In a way that uses a lot of physical or mental energy
Antonyms
How Intense
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Intensively comes from intense, a word that once meant 'to stretch' and is related to tension, giving the image of stretching all your energy into one thing. So, to do something intensively is to give it a lot of effort or close attention.