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Intensifier

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Noun

1. intensifier, intensive

a modifier that has little meaning except to intensify the meaning it modifies

Example Sentences:
'up' in finished up' is an intensifier'
'honestly' in I honestly don't know' is an intensifier'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Intensifier

see synonyms of intensifier
noun
1. 
a person or thing that intensifies
2. 
a word, esp an adjective or adverb, that has little semantic content of its own but that serves to intensify the meaning of the word or phrase that it modifies: awfully and up are intensifiers in the phrases awfully sorry and cluttered up
3. 
a substance, esp one containing silver or uranium, used to increase the density of a photographic film or plate
Compare reducer (sense 1)

Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers

Intensifier

see synonyms of intensifier
noun
1. 
something that intensifies
2.  Grammar
an intensive word, prefix, etc.
3.  Photography
any of several solutions used to increase the printing density of a negative

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Intensifier

see synonyms of intensifier
n.
Grammar
See intensive.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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