Definition of Intense

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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.

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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

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

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.
Harry S. Truman

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

If women ran the world we wouldn't have wars, just intense negotiations every 28 days.
Robin Williams

It sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.
Eric Hoffer

We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.
Eric Hoffer

Every intense desire is perhaps a desire to be different from what we are.
Eric Hoffer

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

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