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INTENSELY

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (adverb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

To a great depth psychologically or emotionally

Example:

she loved him intensely

Synonyms:

deeply; intensely; profoundly

Classified under:

Adverbs

Sense 2

Meaning:

To a high degree; extremely; in high concentration or density

Example:

the sky was intensely blue

Classified under:

Adverbs

Pertainym:

intense (possessing or displaying a distinctive feature to a heightened degree)

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 Context examples: 

In addition to the illicit use of cannabinoids as drugs of abuse, the pharmaceutical use of natural and synthetic cannabinoids is being intensely studied, including a possible role in neurodegenerative diseases.

(Anandamide Metabolism Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

It was a queenly presence—tall, graceful, and intensely womanly.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I never did in my days behold anything like Mowcher as she stood upon the dining table, intensely enjoying this refreshment, rubbing busily at Steerforth's head, and winking at me over it.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Jo wrote no more sensational stories, deciding that the money did not pay for her share of the sensation, but going to the other extreme, as is the way with people of her stamp, she took a course of Mrs. Sherwood, Miss Edgeworth, and Hannah More, and then produced a tale which might have been more properly called an essay or a sermon, so intensely moral was it.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Then, data from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) mission - managed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory - revealed that the system was glowing intensely in infrared light during a phase in the galaxy merger when more than one of the black holes is expected to be feeding rapidly.

(Three Black Holes on Collision Course, NASA)

Bottom line is we really think our merging star hypothesis should be taken seriously right now, and we should be using the next few years to study this intensely so that if it does blow up we will know what led to that explosion, Molnar said.

(Star Explosion Could Change Night Sky, VOA News)

The cabin still rang with his voice, as he stood there, swaying, his bronzed face shining, his head up and dominant, and his eyes, golden and masculine, intensely masculine and insistently soft, flashing upon Maud at the door.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Humbug! Most things free-born will submit to anything for a salary; therefore, keep to yourself, and don't venture on generalities of which you are intensely ignorant.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

The knight wished intensely that he could free them, but he was poor and could only go by each day, watching for the sweet face and longing to see it out in the sunshine.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

As he sat on my sofa, with his long knees drawn up under his coffee-cup, his hat and gloves upon the ground close to him, his spoon going softly round and round, his shadowless red eyes, which looked as if they had scorched their lashes off, turned towards me without looking at me, the disagreeable dints I have formerly described in his nostrils coming and going with his breath, and a snaky undulation pervading his frame from his chin to his boots, I decided in my own mind that I disliked him intensely.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)