LekhoriLekhoriOf a characteristic: extreme or very high or strong in degree; severe; also, excessive, towering.
Nor was I yet able to passe through any of the narrower streets, but kept the widest; the ground and air, smoake and fiery vapour, continu'd so intense that my haire was almost sing'd, and my feete unsufferably surbated.
Of a thing: possessing some characteristic to an extreme or very high or strong degree.
[T]h' intense atom glows / A moment, then is quenched in a most cold repose.
Of feelings, thoughts, etc.: strongly focused; ardent, deep, earnest, passionate.
From Late Middle English intens, intense (“ardent, fervent; extreme, great, intense”), borrowed from Old French intense (modern French intense), or directly from its etymon Latin intēnsus (“strained, ...
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