intensely
to a high or extreme degree: Many ingredients are rolled into this intensely flavorful and very versatile curry paste.
(said in reference to emotions or feelings) acutely, strongly, or vehemently: We should all be intensely angry about what is happening, and should do something besides just sitting at our computers absorbing information.I disliked the book intensely.
earnestly or strenuously; in a highly engaged or involved way: The first time I watched the documentary, all I saw was these four people talking intensely about their music.
Origin of intensely
1Other words from intensely
- hy·per·in·tense·ly, adverb
- o·ver·in·tense·ly, adverb
- su·per·in·tense·ly, adverb
Words Nearby intensely
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How to use intensely in a sentence
They also prevent the build-up of small trees, shrubs and woody material, which otherwise cause the fires that do spark to become especially large and intense.
California and the Forest Service have a plan to prevent future catastrophic fires | Ula Chrobak | August 27, 2020 | Popular-ScienceThis has attracted intense interest in the last decades, as physicists started considering a variety of approaches toward the construction of a theory of quantum gravity.
Schrödinger’s Cat When Nobody Is Looking - Issue 89: The Dark Side | Daniel Sudarsky | August 26, 2020 | NautilusFar outside our galaxy, 500 million light-years away, intense, random bursts of radio waves have been flashing for four days at a time.
Despite the intense focus on a vaccine, some worry it’s the wrong priority.
Every country wants a covid-19 vaccine. Who will get it first? | Katie McLean | August 13, 2020 | MIT Technology ReviewChina, which reopened with temperature checks and intense monitoring, has seen a few bumps in the road but no massive problems.
The Babadook is the shape of grief: all-enveloping, shape-shifting, black, here intensely, terrifying, then gone.
Not surprisingly, this laid-back ball of nerves is also both intensely rational and explosively emotional.
Washington was a passionate advocate for an intensely practical education for ex-slaves and their descendants.
College Must Be More Than Just a Classy Trade School | Michael S. Roth | August 30, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTI was actually experiencing insomnia pretty intensely, and that experience informed that song.
Jenny Lewis on 'The Voyager,' the End of Rilo Kiley, and High School Classmate Angelina Jolie | Marlow Stern | August 17, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThere is one intensely sexual passage in which the protagonist cannot tell if he is sleeping or awake.
It was a fatal error, for though the Spanish people might despise their King, they were intensely proud of their nationality.
Napoleon's Marshals | R. P. Dunn-PattisonLater on he became intensely critical of his own work, and finally bought up all the copies he could lay hands on and burnt them!
Music-Study in Germany | Amy FayThe fighting section of the Filipinos was intensely irritated at not having been allowed to enter and sack the capital.
The Philippine Islands | John ForemanThe day had been intensely cold, with a biting north-east wind and black frost.
The World Before Them | Susanna MoodieSuch conduct is not only excessively ill-bred, but intensely selfish.
The Ladies' Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness | Florence Hartley
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