Intense

Definition: Intense

Intense

Adjective

1. In an extreme degree; "intense heat"; "intense anxiety,"; "intense desire"; "intense emotion"; "the skunk's intense acrid odor"; "intense pain"; "enemy fire was intense".

2. Extremely sharp or intense; "acute pain"; "felt acute annoyance"; "intense itching and burning".

3. (of color) having the highest saturation; "vivid green"; "intense blue".

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Date "intense" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Etymology: Intense \In*tense"\, adjective. [Latin expression intensus stretched, tight, past participle of intendere to stretch: compare to the French expression intense. See Intend, and compare to Intent, and compare to Intent,]. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Intense

Attention

Active application, diligent application, exclusive application, minute application, close application, intense application, deep application, profound application, abstract application, labored application, deliberate application, active attention, diligent attention, exclusive attention, minute attention, close attention, intense attention, deep attention, profound attention, abstract attention, labored attention, deliberate attention, active thought, diligent thought, exclusive thought, minute thought, close thought, intense thought, deep thought, profound thought, abstract thought, labored thought, deliberate thought, active study, diligent study, exclusive study, minute study, close study, intense study, deep study, profound study, abstract study, labored study, deliberate study.

Greatness

Goodly, noble, precious, mighty; sad, grave, heavy, serious; far gone, arrant, downright; utter, uttermost; crass, gross, arch, profound, intense, consummate; rank, uninitiated, red-hot, desperate; glaring, flagrant, stark staring; thorough-paced, thoroughgoing; roaring, thumping; extraordinary.; important; unsurpassed; (supreme); complete. august, grand, dignified, sublime, majestic; (repute).

Adjective: great; greater; large, considerable, fair, above par; big, huge; (large in size); Herculean, cyclopean; ample; abundant; (enough) full, intense, strong, sound, passing, heavy, plenary, deep, high; signal, at its height, in the zenith.

Physical Energy

Adjective: strong, energetic, forcible, active; intense, deep-dyed, severe, keen, vivid, sharp, acute, incisive, trenchant, brisk.

Crosswords: Intense

French (acute, burning, fierce, furious, great, heavy, intense, intensive, keen, poignant, sever).

I hope not, 'cause you know, relationships that start under intense circumstances, they never last (Speed; writing credit: Graham Yost)

The life of a repo man is always intense. (Repo Man; writing credit: Alex Cox)

It is the most intense musical experience a person can have (Caroline in the City; writing credit: Angela Carneiro)

Okay, well, you try vomiting for twenty-four hours straight because the pain in your head is so intense, and then we'll discuss the concept of right and wrong (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer)

Enjoy intense drama during the bre-battle briefing scene (Hardware Wars; writing credit: Ernie Fosselius)

Feelings are intense (Enjoy the Silence; performing artist: Depeche Mode)

Intense Perversions (1996)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Intense Moments with the Savior (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Buns of Steel 2000: Intense Buns & Legs Toning (reference)

• Reebok Intense Moves (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Intense Measures (reference)

• So Intense (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• NIRA Intense Import Drag Racing (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

(a) cross-section of infiltrating ductal carcinoma of the breast with blood vessels at the periphery of tumor. Magnification x100. (b) cross-section of infiltrating ductal carcinoma of the breast with vessels at the periphery of tumor. Magnification x200. (c) cross section of infiltrating ductal carcinoma of the breast with a small foci of breast cancer cells in which cd34 antibody has stained blood vessels and basement membrane. Magnification x100. (d) cross-section of infiltrating ductal carcinoma of breast shows intense blood vessel proliferation in stromal tissue adjacent to the malignant tissue. Magnification x200. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.

12 hrs post exposure to normal S. mansoni cercariae, dermis of vaccinated C57Bl/6 mouse shows dead Schistosoma mansoni schistosomulum surrounded by an intense eosinophil-rich inflammatory cell infiltrate. Histopathology, parasite. Credit: CDC.

Histopathology of bladder shows eggs of Schistosoma haematobium surrounded by intense infiltrates of eosinophils and other inflammatory cells. Parasitel. Credit: CDC.

Extremely intense radiation from newly born, ultra-bright stars has blown a glowingspherical ... Credit: NASA.

Intense cloud-to-ground lightning Caught using time-lapse photography during a night-time thunderstorm. Credit: National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL).

Intense low-level convection over the Gulf of Mexico as extremely cold air flows over warmer Gulf of Mexico waters. Very narrow parallel cloud bands begin near the northern shore and become much larger convective elements to the south. TIROS X photograph, pass 3039/3038, camera 1, frame 7. Picture of the Month, "Monthly Weather Review," July 1966. Credit: NOAA in Space.

Infrared imagery of cloud top temperatures over Kansas and Oklahoma. Red indicates coldest temperatures which are associated with highest cloud tops and most intense convection and precipitation. Credit: NOAA in Space.

Blows up during the early phases of Battle off Cape Engaño, 25 October 1944. The damage appears to involve an large and intense fire in the vicinity of the ship's torpedo tubes. This view is cropped from Photo # 80-G-284703. Credit: NAVY.

Crewmen at port side midships 5"/25, 20mm and 40mm anti-aircraft guns strain to identify a plane flying overhead, during the Mindoro invasion, 18 December 1944. This was a time of intense Kamikaze attacks, as the expressions on men's faces indicate. Note whaleboat in the lower left, anti-flash clothing, and floater net enclosed in a bag at right. Credit: NAVY.

U.S. Army in final drive on Guadalcanal. American soldiers, clad in the briefest clothing because of intense heat, blast away at the few remaining enemy positions left on Guadalcanal in the Solomons during the final offensive which led to liberation of th. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

The cold became intense.

And, in so intense a moment, his demeanour would have still been calm

He listened with an intense anxiety

Hell is the centre of evils and, as you know, things are more intense at their centres than at their remotest points

Her face was brown with sun, and her eyes were black and intense.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

The child throws intense or violent tantrums. (references)

Intense tingling and burning sensations are harder to treat. (references)

Bile products deposited in the skin may cause intense itching. (references)

Business

This intense competition also causes profit margins to fluctuate widely. (references)

Manufacturers have promoted these types of products with intense advertising. (references)

The U.S. position in the market of plastic processing machines is not very intense. (references)

Children

Belize

However, these programs have room for only about one-half of the children finishing primary school; competition for spaces in secondary school is intense. (references)

Civil Liberties

Burma

Outside the capital, government pressure particularly was intense. (references)

Pakistan

President Musharraf was the subject of intense and public criticism during the year. (references)

Economic History

Vietnam

Competition among importers is intense. (references)

Namibia

A period of intense fighting followed, during which 375 PLAN fighters were killed. (references)

Moldova

The Russian monetary crisis of 1998 put the Moldovan currency under intense pressure. (references)

Human Rights

United Arab Emirates

Only some blocks of the central prisons are air-conditioned during the intense heat and humidity of the summer. (references)

Yugoslavia

Filipovic, an asthmatic, was detained for 5 hours and suffered an intense asthma attack but was forbidden to use his inhaler. (references)

Afghanistan

From August 9, 2000, through September 5, 2000, when the Taliban captured it, there was intense fighting around and in the town of Taloqan. (references)

Political Economy

COLOMBIA

In spite of such efforts, industry concerns remain very intense. (references)

Korea

Both Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il continue to be the objects of intense personality cults. (references)

Bahamas

Overall, however, politics tends to follow the British model of combining sometimes intense rhetoric with courtly manners. (references)

Political Rights

Switzerland

Initiative and referendum procedures provide unusually intense popular involvement in the legislative process. (references)

Lesotho

In December those issues were resolved and Parliament passed a new electoral bill after lengthy and intense negotiations. (references)

Kuwait

In February the Cabinet resigned after a number of its members were scheduled for intense formal questioning by the National Assembly. (references)

Trade

Thailand

The World Bank began lending to Thailand in 1950, a year after the country became a member in 1949 . In subsequent years through June 1999, Thailand requested and received approximately US$8.0 billion in loan and credit assistance for over 130 operations . Bank support has taken many forms, including intense policy dialogue, technical assistance, and knowledge sharing . Currently the Bank is engaged in 16 operations in the rural development, energy, education, transport, social, and economic/financial sectors, with a total commitment of US$ 1.9 billion. (references)

Travel

Cote D'ivoire

Côte d'Ivoire is less than five degrees from the equator and the sun is very intense. (references)

Sri Lanka

Combat operations in the North-Central and Eastern parts of the country have been intermittent and often intense. (references)

Worker Rights

Kuwait

At the Ahmadi Port refinery, work continued in intense heat despite the collapse of three workers. (references)

Malaysia

Some trade unionists claimed that unions that defy government policies face more intense scrutiny, potentially leading to deregistration. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "intense": intense activity of a foyer of atmospherics ♦ intense application ♦ intense attention ♦ intense cold ♦ intense interest ♦ intense pain ♦ intense study ♦ intense suffering ♦ intense thought. Additional references.

Beginning with "intense": intense-looking.

Ending with "intense": gallery-intense, hyper-intense, over-intense.

Afrikaans

intens (acute, intensive). (various references)

Albanian

i thellë (abstruse, black, deep, dense, distant, heavy, out of the way, profound, saturated, visceral), i madh (bally, big, black, bouncing, capacious, capital, chuckle, chunking, close, grand, great, gross, large, lumping, major, massive, mighty, pelting, thumping, vast, vasty, voluminous, whacking, whaling), i gjallë (above ground, alive, animate, animated, breathing, brisk, buckish, buoyant, busy, canty, colorful, colourful, crude, dapper, dashing, dynamic, elastic, erect, fresh, frisky, glowing, graphic, graphical, green, humming, jocund, keen, larky, live, lively, living, mercurial, nimble, noisy, perky, pert, picturesque, playful, poignant, quick, raw, red blooded, saucy, skittish, smart, snappy, spirited, sprightly, spry, uncooked, vital, vivacious, vivid), i fortë (able bodied, adamant, adamantine, brawny, cast iron, cogent, decuman, Doughty, durable, endurable, enduring, fast, fierce, firm, flinty, forceful, Hale, hard, Hardy, heavy duty, high pitched, intensive, keen, lancinating, nervous, oaky, potent, powerful, red blooded, refractory, resistant, robust, rocky, rough, rugged, screamy, serviceable, sharp, smart, solid, sound, spanking, stable, staunch, steely, stentorian, stiff, stout, strong, sturdy, swashing, swingeing, tenable, tenacious, tough, two-fisted, vehement, vigorous, violent, virile, virulent, well-built, well-set). (various references)

Arabic 

‏فاقع (bright, brilliant, vivid), ‏كثيف (bushy, concentrated, dense, heavy, intensive, thick, thickish, thickset, tufty, turbid), ‏قوي (able bodied, acute, athletic, brawny, burly, forceful, forcible, full-bodied, furious, generous, hardy, hearty, heavy duty, husky, incorrodible, intensive, keen, lively, lusty, manly, mighty, muscular, pithy, potent, powered, powerful, precious, pronounced, reliable, robust, rude, sledge hammer, spanking, staunch, stern, stiff, stout, strong, sturdy, telling, tight, tough, trig, vehement, vigorous, violent, virtuous, vivid, youthful), ‏حاد (abrupt, acid, acrid, acrimonious, acute, avid, be sharp, biting, brisk, clear, cutting, exquisite, heavy, incisive, intensified, intensive, keen, loud, nasal, penetrating, petulant, piercing, piquant, pithy, poignant, pointed, prompt, pronounced, pungent, quick, ripe, rough, salty, severe, sharp, shrill, squeaky, strident, strong, trenchant), ‏ضخم (astronomic, astronomical, awful, big, bulking, bulky, bull, colossal, colossus, considerable, distend, elephantine, enormous, exaggerate, extend, exuberant, fat, gargantuan, ghastly, giant, gigantic, goodly, grand, great, handsome, heavy, hefty, heroic, huge, hulking, husky, immense, jumbo, large, leviathan, liberal, mammoth, mass, massive, mighty, monstrous, monumental, mountainous, outsize, oversize, palatial, phenomenal, powerful, prodigious, proud, round, royal, sizable, smart, strapping, strong, stupendous, sublime, swingeing, tall, tidy, titan, titanic, towering, tremendous, vast, voluminous, whacking, whopping), ‏إنفعالي (declamatory, emotive, passionate, problem, sentimental), ‏شديد (acute, biting, boisterous, brusque, cordial, crass, dense, excruciating, extreme, forte, intensive, keen, lusty, rigorous, shrill, stern, strong, telling, tempestuous, terrible, vehement, vicious, violent). (various references)

Bulgarian 

силен (acute, athletic, beefy, emphatic, energetic, flush, forceful, forcible, foul-mouthed, full, generous, hard, heavy, high, invulnerable, iron, loud, lusty, main, male, mighty, muscled, muscular, nappy, nervous, nervy, perishing, pithy, potent, powerful, rattling, robust, short, shrewd, smacking, smart, sounding, stark, stiff, strong, sturdy, swingeing, telling, tenacious, thumping, thundering, torrid, two-fisted, vehement, vigorous), ревностен (ardent, eager, earnest, fanatic, fanatical, fervent, jealous, keen, mettled, mettlesome, openmouthed, painstaking, violent, zealous), краен (completive, distal, dizzy, end, endmost, eventual, extreme, final, high, intolerant, latter, marginal, out-, outside, profuse, rabid, red-hot, sublime, supreme, terminal, terminative, terrible, ultimate, unmerciful, utmost, utter, uttermost, veriest, wild-eyed), горещ (aglow, burning, devout, fervent, fervid, fiery, flaming, high-spirited, hot, scorching, strong, thermal, torrid), ослепителен (blinding, dazzling, flaring, glaring, vivid), напрегнат (breathless, exacting, excited, intent, laborious, nervy, overstrung, overwrought, strenuous, taut, tense, tight, uncool, uphill), екзалтиран (exalted), емоционален (affective, emotional, emotive, pathetic), прочувствен (affective, effusive, feeling, heartfelt, home-felt, pathetic), прекомерен (exaggerated, excessive, exorbitant, extravagant, immoderate, inordinate, over, undue), интензивен (acute, intensive, keen), дълбок (abysmal, abyssal, deep, dreamless, heavy, hollow, intimate, penetrating, penetrative, profound, rooted, visceral). (various references)

Chinese 

隆 (grand, prosperous, sound of drums, start), 烈 (ardent, crack, rend, split), 緊張 (critical, nervous, strained, tense, tension), 激烈 (acute, fierce), 强烈 (strongly), 強烈 (strong), 尖銳 (penetrating, pointed, sharp). (various references)

Czech

intenzivní (concentrated, exquisite, high pressure, intensive, violent, vivid), velký (big, considerable, exquisite, grand, grave, great, gross, hearty, heavy, high, large, long, loose, man-sized, spacious, tall, wide), prudký (abrupt, acrimonious, big, bulge, effervescent, ferocious, fierce, fiery, glaring, grievous, gusty, heady, heated, heavy, high, hot tempered, hot-headed, impetuous, keen, passional, passionate, peppery, rapid, rash, robust, rude, sharp, steep, stormy, strong, sweeping, tempestuous, towering, tumultuous, vehement, vicious, vigorous, violent, virulent), ostrý (abrupt, acrid, acute, biting, crisp, ferocious, fierce, glib, hard, harsh, high pitched, hot, incisive, keen, piercing, poignant, pointed, rigorous, sharp, shrill, smart, snappy, spicy, strident, tart, tough, trenchant). (various references)

Danish

ikke-energigivende sødestoffer (intense sweetener), stærkstrøm (heavy current, intense current, power current), kraftig måleoplysning (target intense lighting), efter indaanding af blystearat bemaerkes en intensiv hepatisk reaktion,der manifesterer sig ved fedtdegeneration af leveren og morfologiske forandringer af hepatocyterne-caryolyse,mitose,flerkernede celler (after inhalation of lead stearate, an intense hepatic reaction in observed, manifesting itself by adiposis hepatica and morphological changes in the hepatocytes - karyolysis ( hypochromatosis ), mitoses ( karyokineses ), multinucleate cells). (various references)

Dutch

sterk (acute, concentrated, firm, intensive, robust, strong, strongly, sturdy, vigorous), intensief (acute, intensive), intens (acute, intensive), fel (abrasive, acerbic, acid, acrid, acrimonious, acute, intensive, lurid, sharp). (various references)

Esperanto

intensa (intensive). (various references)

Faeroese

sterkur (acute, firm, intensive, robust, strong, sturdy, vigorous). (various references)

Farsi 

مشتاقانه (Intensive), قوی (Boisterous, Drastic, Fort, Hard, Hefty, Irresistible, Lusty, Mighty, Overtone, Potent, Stalwart, Stark, Stocky, Strong, Swith, Valid, Vigorous), زیاد (Copious, Extortionary, Far, Generous, Great, Heavy, High, Immoderate, Late, Liberal, Manifold, Many, Much, Populous, Rife, Superabundant, Thick, Too, Vast, Very, Wide), شدید (Boisterous, Chronic, Diametrical, Drastic, Exquisite, Grievous, Hard, Inclement, Intensive, Keen, Rigorous, Rugged, Severe, Sopping, Stalwart, Strenuous, Tough, Vehement, Vigorous, Violent). (various references)

Finnish

voimakas (acute, forcible, intensive, mighty, powerful, strong, substantial, vigorous). (various references)

French

intense (intensive). (various references)

German

intensiv (acute, acutely, intensely, intensive, intensively, intent, powerful, strong), stark (a lot, able, bad, badly, bright, brightly, broad, considerable, forceful, great, greatly, grossly, hard, hearty, heavily, heavy, high-powered, keen, keenly, large, loud, marked, mighty, potent, potently, powerful, profound, profuse, profusely, racily, racy, really well, robust, severe, severely, stiff, stout, strong, strongly, substantial, thick, tough, vehement, very, vigorous, violent, virulent, vivid, wild). (various references)

Greek 

έντονοσ (acute, colourful, cordial), έντονος (acute, bold, strenuous), σφοδρόσ (eager, keen, splitting, strenuous, vehement, violent), εντατικός (intensive), δυνατόσ (feasibly, forceful, lusty, mighty, muscular, possible, potent, powerful, practicable, smacking, splitting, strong, vigorous, virile). (various references)

Hebrew 

עז (cordial, fervent, fierce, goat, mighty, powerful, strong, tearing), אינטנסיבי (intensive), חזק (cast iron, firm, forceful, forcible, forte, hard, intensive, mighty, potent, powerful, stiff, strong, tough). (various references)

Hungarian

nagyfokú (debility, high). (various references)

Indonesian

terik (extreme, fried spiced beef), hebat (excellent, fabulous, formidable, killing, severe, spectacular, super, swell, vehement). (various references)

Italian

intenso (deep, high, intensive, keen, poignant, profound, rich, severe), acuto (abrasive, acerbic, acid, acrid, acrimonious, acute, cute, discerning, discriminating, high, high note, high pitched, incisive, keen, lancinating, lurid, nasty, neat, penetrating, piercing, piping, poignant, pointed, severe, sharp, shrewd, shrill). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

甚だしい (excessive, extreme, heavy, serious, severe, terrible, tremendous), 激しい (furious, tempestuous, vehement, violent), 強烈 (severe, strong). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

きびしい (austere, grave, majestic, relentless, rigid, severe, solemn, stern, strict, unsparing), きつい (close, tight), きょうれつ (severe, strong), いかめしい (austere, grave, majestic, severe, solemn, stern, strict), りんりんたる (biting, severe), りんれつ (biting, rigorous, severe), ガンガン (pounding of headache, sound of large bell, sound of scolding voice), はなはだしい (excessive, extreme, heavy, serious, severe, terrible, tremendous), はげしい (furious, tempestuous, vehement, violent). (various references)

Korean 

강렬한. (various references)

Manx

trome (bold, burdensome, close, close oppressive, crippling, crippling burden, deep, deep-drawn, dense, dense of smoke, difficult, emphatic, expectant, expecting, grave, grievous, gruelling, hard, harsh, heavy, heavyweight, high pressure, laborious, onerous, ponderous, pregnant, rough of sea, severe, sledge-hammer, steep, stodgy, substantial, sweated, wearying, weighty, with child), mooar (big, bold, bold promintary, capacious, chief, commodious, difficult, extensive, extravagant, familiar, grand, great, grievous, heavy, hit off, hobnob, intimate, loose-fitting, major, marked, powerful, tall), jeean (ardent, businesslike, diligent, eager, earnest, fervent, intensive, keen, sudden, vehement, zealous). (various references)

Norwegian

intens, voldsom (fierce, impetuous). (various references)

Papiamen

intenso (acute, intensive). (various references)

Pig Latin

intenseay.(various references)

Portuguese

intenso (acute, alive, deep, exquisite, high, hot, intensive, out-and-out, quick, saturate, saturated, smart, strong, vivid), forte (accomplished, acute, bold, bouncing, brawny, cogent, decuman, firm, forceful, forcible, fort, forte, fortress, full-blooded, hale, hard, heavy, hefty, high, high-hearted, intensive, keen, loud, lusty, manly, masculine, masterful, mighty, nappy, penetrating, pithy, potent, presidio, racy, red-blooded, robust, salt, sanguineous, seaworthy, sharp, sinewy, snorting, solid, stalwart, stark, stout, strapping, strong, sturdy, substantial, swingeing, telling, tough, two-fisted, unfailing, vehement, venturous, vigorous, wakeless, wholesome). (various references)

Romanian

intens (arduous, cut throat, deep, exquisite, heavy, high, intensely, intensive, keen, powerful, saturated, severe, strenuous, strong, violent), viu (alive, animate, animated, breathing, bright, eager, eternal, forcible, fresh, glowing, green, high, hot stuff, intensely, live, lively, living, natural, never-fading, poignant, rapid, rich, smart, sprightly, strong, vivid, vividly), viguros (bouncing, chopping, emphatic, forceful, forcible, forcibly, full-blooded, green, Hale, Hardy, hearty, hot stuff, humming, lusty, nervous, pithy, potent, red blooded, robust, rude, sapful, sinewy, stalwart, stout, stoutly, strapping, strong, strong-limbed, thriving, tough, vigorous, vigorously), tare (adamant, adamantine, badly, crusty, deeply, double, durable, fast, fierce, firm, firmly, greatly, hard, hollow, intensely, lasting, leathery, loud, loudly, mighty, potent, powerful, rigid, robust, rocky, solid, spanking, stalwart, steady, stiff, stout, strong, strongly, sturdy, to the echo, tough, unflinching, unflinchingly, vehement, vigorous, violent), puternic (acute, ardent, authoritative, biting, catchy, drastic, exquisite, fierce, flush, forceful, forcible, forcibly, great, hard, heavily, heavy, high, important, intensely, intensive, leonine, loud, lusty, marrowy, mighty, muscular, nervous, nervy, pithy, potent, powerful, pronounced, resistant, robust, rough, rude, searching, severe, sinewy, solid, stark, stout, strapping, strong, tough, towering, vigorous, violent, virulent), fierbinte (ardent, boiling, burning, consuming, devout, ebullient, fervent, fiery, hot, scorching, torrid), emotiv (emotional, emotive, excitable), arzãtor (ardent, ardently, burner, burning, fiery, hot, hot-blooded, passionately, scorching, sultry, topical, urgent), acut (acute, acutely, keen, shrewd, violent). (various references)

Russian 

интенсивный (intensive, keen, violent). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

intenzivan (intensive), silan (howling, potential, powerful, strong, swingeing, thumping), jak (beefy, bruiser, great, grunting ox, humming, lusty, powerful, racy, red blooded, sinewy, spanking, stiff, strong, tenacious, yak), žestok (bitter, blistering, boisterous, mettled, mettlesome, racy, right-down, rough and tumble, severe, uncanny, vehement, vicious, violent, white hot). (various references)

Spanish

violento (abrupt, acute, blustering, boisterous, forced, harsh, intensive, raging, rude, savage, severe, sharp, towering, ugly, violent, wild). (various references)

Swedish

intensiv (exquisite, high pitched, hot, intensive, keen, mortal, vivid). (various references)

Turkish

istekli (agog, ambitious, anxious, applicant, aspirant, athirst for, cheerful, covetous, dead set, desirous, devout, disposed, eager, enthusiastic, forward, full of zeal, hellbent, inclinable, inclined, intent, itching, itchy, keen, minded, ready, solicitous, strong, thirsty, voracious, willing, wishful, wistful), yoğun (busy, compact, concentrated, crash, dense, gross, hectic, intensive, peasoupy, rich, rush hour, stiff, thick, turbid), son derece (all-fired, almighty, arrant, awfully, beyond measure, cruelly, damn, damned, darned, deadly, deeply, desperately, dire, direful, exceedingly, exceptionally, extreme, extremely, extremity, highly, immensely, in the extreme, in the highest degree, infinitely, intensely, jolly, last, out and out, rattling, revoltingly, sadly, strongly, sublime, terribly, thundering, to the nth degree, to the utmost, unco, utmost, uttermost, veriest, with a vengeance), kuvvetli (Doughty, energetic, forceful, heady, healty, hearty, lusty, mighty, muscular, potent, powered, powerful, retentive, robust, rugged, sappy, sinewed, sinewy, sound, stalwart, stout, strong, swinging, tenacious, vigorous, virile, virulent), koyu (black, crusted, darkish, deep, dense, dyed in the wool, peasoupy, sable, sad, saturated, somber, sombre, stiff, strong, tenebrous, thick), etkileyici (affecting, affective, charismatic, devastating, dramatic, effective, effectively, enchanting, expressive, fascinating, forceful, handsome, imposing, impressive, speaking, touchy, winged), dikkatli (argus-eyed, assiduous, attentive, canny, careful, cautious, circumspect, gingerly, heedful, intent, mindful, particular, regardful, rigorous, scrupulous, sleepless, solicitous, studious, thoughtful, wary, watchful), şiddetli (acute, astringent, bitter, brutal, burning, cast iron, consuming, deep, drastic, exquisite, extreme, ferocious, flaming, flash, forceful, frenetic, frenzied, fulminant, furious, gusty, hard, harsh, heavy, high, hot, impetuous, intemperate, intensive, ironclad, keen, profound, rigorous, round, severe, sharp, slashing, sledgehammer, smacking, smart, smashing, spanking, splitting, stand up, stern, stinging, stormy, strenuous, strong, sweeping, tempestuous, torrential, vehement, vicious, vigorous, violent, virulent), aşırı (acute, beastly, beyond, breakneck, camp, confoundedly, cruelly, crusted, damned, dead, deep, desperate, desperately, devilish, disproportionate, every other day, exaggerated, exceeding, excessive, excessively, exorbitant, exquisite, extortionate, extravagant, extreme, extremely, fancy, ferocious, filthy, fond, fulsome, hard, heavy, hell, hell of, high, horrendous, horrific, hyper-, immoderate, inordinate, intensive, like hell, like sin, outrageous, over, overweening, precious, shocking, splitting, steep, super, terribly, thick, ultra, unbounded, unco, unconscionable, undue, unmeasured, unreasonable, violent), çarpıcı (blazing, conspicuous, devastating, dramatic, flashy, salient, showy, striking, stunning). (various references)

Turkmen 

gyzgyn (heat, hot, temperature), gyzgalaсly, dartgynly (tense). (various references)

Ukrainian

інтенсивний (bad, intensive, saturate, saturated), вразливий (affecting, impressible, impressionable, susceptible), значний (appreciable, considerable, gey, handsome, important, independent, notable, pretty, respectable, smart, substantive, tidy). (various references)

Vietnamese 

mạnh (hard, intensive, marrowy, mighty, rough, smart, telling, thundering), dữ dội nồng nhiệt, có cường độ lớn mãnh liệt. (various references)

Welsh

dwys (deep, dense, grave), angerddol (ardent, passionate, violent). (various references)

intensus, multa, multae, multaeque, multam, multamque, multaque, multarum, multas, multi, multique, multis, multo, multoque, multorum, multos, multum, multumque, multus, multusque, plurima, plurimae, plurimam, plurimarum, plurimas, plurimi, plurimis, plurimo, plurimorum, plurimos, plurimum, plurimus. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "intense": intensely, intenseness, intensenesses, intenser, intensest. (additional references)

Words ending with "intense": hyperintense, overintense. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Intense" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Entecsa, entense, iintense, inese, inmense, Intecsa, intels, intence, intens, interse, intersel, invense, Ritzensee. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: tennies.

-1 letter: sennet, sennit, tennis.

-2 letters: inset, neist, nenes, nines, nites, seine, sente, senti, stein, teens, tense, tines.

-3 letters: inns, nene, nest, nets, nine, nite, nits, seen, sene, sent, sine, site, snit, teen, tees, tens, ties, tine, tins.

-4 letters: ens, inn, ins, its, nee, net, nit, see, sei, sen, set, sin, sit, tee, ten, tie, tin.

+1 letter: dentines, desinent, einstein, entwines, intenser, internes, nescient, netizens, nineties, sentient, sentinel, tennises, wenniest.

+2 letters: antigenes, antisense, einsteins, enceintes, extension, ignescent, incenters, indenters, ineptness, inertness, insensate, intendeds, intenders, intensely, intensest, intensive, internees, intestine, inventers, neotenies, nescients, nineteens, penitents, reinvents, renesting, resenting, retinenes, sententia, sentience, sentients, sentiment, sentinels, spinneret, tanneries, tenancies, tensioned, tensioner, venetians.