Definition of intense

"intense" in the adjective sense

1. intense

possessing or displaying a distinctive feature to a heightened degree

"intense heat"

"intense anxiety"

"intense desire"

"intense emotion"

"the skunk's intense acrid odor"

"intense pain"

"enemy fire was intense"

2. acute, intense

extremely sharp or severe

"acute pain"

"felt acute annoyance"

"intense itching and burning"

3. intense, vivid

of color) having the highest saturation

"vivid green"

"intense blue"

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Quotations for intense

Intense people are usually narrowminded. [ Madame de Sartory ]

With affection's warm, intense, refined;
She mixed such calm and holy strength of mind.
That, like heaven's image in the smiling brook,
Celestial peace was pictured in her look. [ Campbell ]

A great acacia, with its slender trunk
And overpoise of multitudinous leaves,
(In which a hundred fields might spill their dew
And intense verdure, yet find room enough)
Stood reconciling all the place with green. [ E. B. Browning ]

Custom, which diminishes the intense, increases the moderate, pleasures. [ Ramsay ]

Sweet the young muse with love intense. Which smiles over sleeping innocence. [ Smart ]

The state of that man's mind who feels too intense an interest as to future events, must be most deplorable. [ Seneca ]

There are moments of intense joy and grief, which every one has, at least, once in his life, that illuminate his character at once. [ Lavater ]

No friendship is so cordial or so delicious as that of girl for girl; no hatred so intense and immovable as that of woman for woman. [ Landor ]

There is among men such intense affectation that they often boast of defects which they have not, more willingly than of qualities which they have. [ George Sand ]

Grief is only the memory of widowed affection. The more intense the delight in the presence of the object, the more poignant must be the impression of the absence. [ James Martineau ]

The bed of death brings every human being to his pure individuality; to the intense contemplation of that deepest and most solemn of all relations, the relation between the creature and his Creator. [ Daniel Webster ]

intense in Scrabble®

The word intense is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 7

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Play In The Letters intense:

INTENSE
(78 = 28 + 50)

Seven Letter Word Alert: (1 word)

intense

 

All Scrabble® Plays For The Word intense

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INTENSE
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The 200 Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays For Words Using The Letters In intense

INTENSE
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INTENSE
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intense in Words With Friends™

The word intense is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 9

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays In The Letters intense:

INTENSE
(80 = 45 + 35)
INTENSE
(80 = 45 + 35)

Seven Letter Word Alert: (1 word)

intense

 

All Words With Friends™ Plays For The Word intense

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The 200 Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays Using The Letters In intense

INTENSE
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INTENSE
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INTENSE
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INTENSE
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INTENSE
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Words within the letters of intense

2 letter words in intense (4 words)

3 letter words in intense (14 words)

5 letter words in intense (7 words)

6 letter words in intense (2 words)

7 letter words in intense (1 word)

Words containing the sequence intense

Words that start with intense (5 words)

Words with intense in them (3 words)

Word Growth involving intense

Shorter words in intense

in

en ens tens tense

en ten tens tense

Longer words containing intense

hyperintense

hypointense

intensely overintensely

intenseness overintenseness

intenser

intensest

isointense

nonintense

overintense overintensely

overintense overintenseness

ultraintense