intense

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• General-American, Received-Pronunciation: /ɪnˈtɛns/
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From Late Middle English intens, intense (“ardent, fervent; extreme, great, intense”), borrowed from Old French intense (modern French intense), or directly from its etymon Latin intēnsus (“strained, stretched tight; intense; attentive; violent; (rare) eager, intent”), the perfect passive participle of intendō (“to stretch out, strain”), from in- (prefix meaning ‘in, inside, within’) + tendō (“to extend, stretch”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *tend- (“to extend, stretch”)).

102 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: شَدِيد (šadīd) — extreme or very high or strong in degree
• Azerbaijani: gərgin — extreme or very high or strong in degree
• Belarusian: моцны (mócny) — extreme or very high or strong in degree
• Belarusian: празмерны (prazmjerny) — extreme or very high or strong in degree
• Bulgarian: интензивен (intenziven) — extreme or very high or strong in degree
• Catalan: intens — extreme or very high or strong in degree
• Esperanto: intensa — extreme or very high or strong in degree
• Finnish: ääri- — extreme or very high or strong in degree
• Finnish: huikea — extreme or very high or strong in degree
• Finnish: huima — extreme or very high or strong in degree
• Finnish: hurja — extreme or very high or strong in degree
• Finnish: kova — extreme or very high or strong in degree
• Finnish: raju — extreme or very high or strong in degree
• Finnish: ylenpalttinen — extreme or very high or strong in degree
• Finnish: yletön — extreme or very high or strong in degree
• Galician: intenso — extreme or very high or strong in degree
• German: hochgradig — extreme or very high or strong in degree
• Ancient Greek: σφοδρός (sphodrós) — extreme or very high or strong in degree
• Ancient Greek: σύντονος (súntonos) — extreme or very high or strong in degree
• Hindi: प्रचंड (pracaṇḍ) — extreme or very high or strong in degree
• Hindi: अतिमात्र (atimātra) — extreme or very high or strong in degree
• Indonesian: sangat — extreme or very high or strong in degree
• Irish: an- — extreme or very high or strong in degree
• Irish: dian — extreme or very high or strong in degree
• Irish: dian- — extreme or very high or strong in degree
• Irish: tréan- — extreme or very high or strong in degree
• Italian: intenso — extreme or very high or strong in degree
• Japanese: 激しい (hageshii) — extreme or very high or strong in degree
• Kazakh: қарқынды (qarqyndy) — extreme or very high or strong in degree
• Korean: 강렬한 (gangnyeolhan) — extreme or very high or strong in degree
• Korean: 극심한 (geuksimhan) — extreme or very high or strong in degree
• Macedonian: си́лен (sílen) — extreme or very high or strong in degree
• Macedonian: пре́теран (préteran) — extreme or very high or strong in degree
• Macedonian: преку́мерен (prekúmeren) — extreme or very high or strong in degree
• Malay: amat — extreme or very high or strong in degree
• Māori: kitakita — extreme or very high or strong in degree
• Māori: mātaratara — extreme or very high or strong in degree
• Māori: ngoto — extreme or very high or strong in degree
• Māori: tīwerawera — extreme or very high or strong in degree
• Eastern Mari: виян (vijan) — extreme or very high or strong in degree
• Middle English: sad — extreme or very high or strong in degree
• Middle English: stith — extreme or very high or strong in degree
• Norwegian Bokmål: intensiv — extreme or very high or strong in degree
• Norwegian Nynorsk: intensiv — extreme or very high or strong in degree
• Polish: intensywny — extreme or very high or strong in degree
• Portuguese: intenso — extreme or very high or strong in degree
• Romanian: intens — extreme or very high or strong in degree
• Russian: си́льный (sílʹnyj) — extreme or very high or strong in degree
• Russian: интенси́вный (intensívnyj) — extreme or very high or strong in degree
• Sanskrit: दारुण (dāruṇa) — extreme or very high or strong in degree
• Spanish: intenso — extreme or very high or strong in degree
• Tagalog: matindi — extreme or very high or strong in degree
• Telugu: తీవ్రమైన (tīvramaina) — extreme or very high or strong in degree
• Telugu: అత్యంత (atyanta) — extreme or very high or strong in degree
• Telugu: అతి- (ati-) — extreme or very high or strong in degree
• Ottoman Turkish: كسكین (keskin) — extreme or very high or strong in degree
• Ottoman Turkish: سرت (sert) — extreme or very high or strong in degree
• Finnish: kiihkeä — of a thing: possessing some characteristic to an extreme or very high or strong degree
• Finnish: kiivas — of a thing: possessing some characteristic to an extreme or very high or strong degree
• Finnish: voimakas — of a thing: possessing some characteristic to an extreme or very high or strong degree
• Russian: я́ркий (járkij) — of a thing: possessing some characteristic to an extreme or very high or strong degree
• Finnish: kiihkeä — of feelings, thoughts, etc.: strongly focused — see also ardent, earnest, passionate
• Finnish: kiivas — of feelings, thoughts, etc.: strongly focused — see also ardent, earnest, passionate
• Finnish: voimakas — of feelings, thoughts, etc.: strongly focused — see also ardent, earnest, passionate
• Russian: стра́стный (strástnyj) — of feelings, thoughts, etc.: strongly focused — see also ardent, earnest, passionate
• Finnish: kiihkeä — of a person: very emotional or passionate
• Finnish: kiivas — of a person: very emotional or passionate
• Russian: стра́стный (strástnyj) — of a person: very emotional or passionate
• Azerbaijani: gərgin — under tension — see also strained, tense
• Basque: bizi — under tension — see also strained, tense
• Belarusian: інтэнсы́ўны (intensýwny) — under tension — see also strained, tense
• Bulgarian: напрегнат (napregnat) — under tension — see also strained, tense
• Catalan: intens — under tension — see also strained, tense
• Chinese Mandarin: 激烈 (jīliè) — under tension — see also strained, tense
• Chinese Mandarin: 劇烈 /剧烈 (jùliè) — under tension — see also strained, tense
• Czech: intenzivní — under tension — see also strained, tense
• Czech: silný — under tension — see also strained, tense
• Czech: vášnivý — under tension — see also strained, tense
• Dutch: intens — under tension — see also strained, tense
• Finnish: intensiivinen — under tension — see also strained, tense
• Finnish: äärimmäinen — under tension — see also strained, tense
• Finnish: kova — under tension — see also strained, tense
• French: intense — under tension — see also strained, tense
• Galician: intenso — under tension — see also strained, tense
• German: intensiv — under tension — see also strained, tense
• Ancient Greek: σύντονος (súntonos) — under tension — see also strained, tense
• Ido: intensa — under tension — see also strained, tense
• Indonesian: intens — under tension — see also strained, tense
• Irish: dlúth — under tension — see also strained, tense
• Italian: intenso — under tension — see also strained, tense
• Japanese: 激烈な (gekiretsu-na) — under tension — see also strained, tense
• Japanese: きつい (kitsui) — under tension — see also strained, tense
• Macedonian: на́прегнат (nápregnat) — under tension — see also strained, tense
• Polish: intensywny — under tension — see also strained, tense
• Portuguese: tenso — under tension — see also strained, tense
• Romanian: intens — under tension — see also strained, tense
• Russian: интенси́вный (intensívnyj) — under tension — see also strained, tense
• Russian: напряжённый (naprjažónnyj) — under tension — see also strained, tense
• Spanish: intenso — under tension — see also strained, tense
• Turkish: yoğun — under tension — see also strained, tense
• Ukrainian: інтенси́вний (intensývnyj) — under tension — see also strained, tense
• Welsh: dwys — under tension — see also strained, tense