Definition of Intense

Intense Strained; tightly drawn; kept on the stretch; strict; very close or earnest; as, intense study or application; intense thought. Extreme in degree; excessive; immoderate; as: (a) Ardent; fervent; as, intense heat. (b) Keen; biting; as, intense cold. (c) Vehement; earnest; exceedingly strong; as, intense passion or hate. (d) Very severe; violent; as, intense pain or anguish. (e) Deep; strong; brilliant; as, intense color or light. Related Definitions: Anguish, Application, Ardent, As, Biting, Brilliant, Close, Cold, Color, Deep, Degree, Drawn, Earnest, Exceedingly, Excessive, Extreme, Fervent, Hate, Heat, Immoderate, In, Intense, Keen, Kept, Light, On, Or, Pain, Passion, Severe, Strained, Stretch, Strict, Strong, Study, The, Thought, Tightly, Vehement, Very, Violent

Intense Quotations Intense love does not measure, it just gives. Mother Teresa Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known. Oscar Wilde That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful. Edgar Allan Poe Intense feeling too often obscures the truth. Harry S. Truman The most intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calm that is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts and their conflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results. Carl Jung The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother, and to become fully independent. Erich Fromm The more intense the nature of a man, the more readily will he find meditation, and the more successfully will he practice it. James Allen The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and declare our own impressions. George Eliot If women ran the world we wouldn't have wars, just intense negotiations every 28 days. Robin Williams It is difficult for the common good to prevail against the intense concentration of those who have a special interest, especially if the decisions are made behind locked doors. Jimmy Carter

Intense Translations intense in Afrikaans is intens intense in Dutch is sterk, intensief, intens, fel intense in Finnish is voimakas intense in French is intense intense in German is stark, intensiv, intensiv intense in Norwegian is voldsom, intens intense in Portuguese is intenso intense in Spanish is violento intense in Swedish is intensiv