Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Grammar See intensive.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One who or that which intensifies. Specifically— In photography, one of the substances which, when applied to a negative, increase the opacity of the deposit already formed.
Wiktionary
- n. A modifier such as very, terribly or damned that has little or no meaning of its own and serves to enhance and give additional emotional context to the word that it modifies.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. One who or that which intensifies or strengthens; in photography, an agent used to intensify the lights or shadows of a picture.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a modifier that has little meaning except to intensify the meaning it modifies
Examples
“January 8th, 2009 at 2: 35 pm using it as an intensifier is less bad than using it as a negation-sign, as in “moral victory”, which means “i lost”.”
“Yet another intensifier is the military's handling of rape claims.”
“I spent a year circling my eyes in Sue Devitt's smoky eye intensifier pencil before I knew anything about her.”
“Is “big” the new all-purpose negative intensifier? ga73 says:”
“But waiting can also be a powerful intensifier of emotions.”
“And just as time can act as an intensifier, so can context.”
“Many famous writers, including Mark Twain and many others, have used literal to mean figurative or as an intensifier.”
“I always wished I could use “wicked” as an intensifier without it coming out as awkwardly forced.”
“The phony southern accent was the worst, but aside from that, she has this irritating habit of opening her eyes up extra wide when trying to make a forceful point, apparently believing that this facial intensifier will make up for her lack of an ability to use words effectively to convey an idea.”
Hillary-Obama Duel For Black Votes May Be Most Intense Yet, Dems Say
“Could we PLEASE stop using ‘incredible’ as an intensifier?”
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