English > intensive: 4 senses > noun 1, communication| Meaning | A modifier that has little meaning / meaning except to intensify the meaning / meaning it modifies. |
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| Synonym | intensifier |
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| Broader | modifier, qualifier | A content word that qualifies the meaning / meaning of a noun or verb |
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| Usage | bloody, damn, all-fired, all-firedly | Extremely |
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| downright | Thoroughgoing |
| ever, ever so | (intensifier for adjectives) very |
| every last | (used as intensive) every |
| goddam, goddamn, goddamned | Extremely |
| honestly, candidly, frankly | (used as intensives reflecting the speaker's attitude) it is sincerely the case that |
| in truth, really, truly | In fact (used as intensifiers or sentence modifiers) |
| infernally, hellishly | Extremely |
| just, simply | absolutely |
| literally | (intensifier before a figurative expression) without exaggeration |
| living | (informal) absolute |
| madly, insanely, deadly, deucedly, devilishly | (used as intensives) extremely |
| mighty, mightily, powerful, right | (Southern regional intensive) very |
| most | Very |
| positively | Extremely |
| precious, preciously | Extremely |
| so | To a very great extent or degree |
| such | To so extreme a degree |
| well | (used for emphasis or as an intensifier) entirely or fully |
| wonderfully, wondrous, wondrously, superbly, toppingly, marvellously, terrifically, marvelously | (used as an intensifier) extremely well |
| Spanish | intensificador, intensivo |
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| Catalan | intensificador |
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