intensifier meaning

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intensifier (noun): a modifier that has little meaning except to intensify the meaning it modifies.

Definition of intensifier

  1. a modifier that has little meaning except to intensify the meaning it modifies
    • `up' in `finished up' is an intensifier
    • `honestly' in `I honestly don't know' is an intensifier

    Synonyms: intensive

    Type of: modifier

    Related forms: intensify

Scrabble score: 14 (letter breakdown)

Word lists: words starting with IN · words ending in ER · 11-letter words

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