Synonyms for intensive
ɪnˈtɛn sɪvin·ten·sive

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1. intensifier, intensiveadjective

   a modifier that has little meaning except to intensify the meaning it modifies

   "`up' in `finished up' is an intensifier"; "`honestly' in `I honestly don't know' is an intensifier"

   Synonyms:
   intensifier

   Antonyms:
   mild, extensive

2. intensiveadjective

   characterized by a high degree or intensity; often used as a combining form

   "the questioning was intensive"; "intensive care"; "research-intensive"; "a labor-intensive industry"

   Antonyms:
   mild, extensive

3. intensiveadjective

   tending to give force or emphasis

   "an intensive adverb"

   Antonyms:
   mild, extensive

4. intensiveadjective

   of agriculture; intended to increase productivity of a fixed area by expending more capital and labor

   "intensive agriculture"; "intensive conditions"

   Antonyms:
   mild, extensive

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1. intensiveadjective

   Synonyms:
   intensifying

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1. List of paraphrases for "intensive":

   intense, extensive, intensified, heavy, dense, in-depth, heavy-use, high-intensity, tight, labour-intensive, hard, labor-intensive, close, tense, concentrated, thorough

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1. Stacy Johnson:

   It sounds like it might be labor-intensive for the hospitals and docs, having just gone through the transition to EHRs (electronic health records), I am acutely aware of all the glitches and interfacing issues that can happen. Furthermore, there are multiple EHR programs out there. No two hospitals operate them the same.

2. Jos Davi Urbaez:

   The governments message today is : Catch your coronavirus, and if its serious, there is intensive care. That sums up our policy today.

3. Zhao Yonggang:

   The less carbon intensive companies will be weighed more in the index. It aims to direct the flow of capital from funds managers towards green businesses.

4. Geert Laugs:

   The intensive conditions in factory farming provide a pressure cooker in which diseases like avian flu can spread very easily and can also evolve very easily.

5. Adam Schefter:

   I've learned for a long time in this business not to discuss sources, or the process, or how stories are done, but I would just say that its a common practice to run information past sources. And in this particular case, during a labor intensive lockout that was a complicated subject that was new to understand. I took the extra rare step to run information past one of the people that I was talking to. You know, it was an important story to fans ; a host of others, and that's the situation.