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noun - a modifier that has little meaning except to intensify the meaning it modifies
INTENSIFIER - Intensifier (abbreviated INT) is a linguistic term (but not a proper lexical category) for a modifier that makes no contribution to the propositional...
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| This adds power: it fires nine bombs |
| Small map inside another |
| Pub, say, with XXXX? If that is right, it could be jolly |
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| Dec 4 2011 The Telegraph - Cryptic |
| Apr 9 2005 The Times - Concise |
| Aug 25 2003 The Times - Cryptic |
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| It's an adverb, like "very", that increases the force of the word it modifies |
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| Grammar See intensive. |
| a person or thing that intensifies. |
| a modifier that has little meaning except to intensify the meaning it modifies |
| A person or thing that intensifies. |
| a word, especially an adverb or adjective, that has little meaning itself but is used to add force to another adjective, verb, or adverb: |
| a word, esp. an adverb, that is used to add force to another word or phrase: |
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| Intensifier (abbreviated INT) is a linguistic term (but not a proper lexical category) for a modifier that makes no contribution to the propositional meaning of a clause but serves to enhance and give additional emotional context to the word it modifies. Intensifiers are grammatical expletives, specifically expletive attributives (or, equivalently, attributive expletives or attributive-only expletives; they also qualify as expressive attributives), because they function as semantically vacuous filler. Characteristically, English draws intensifiers from a class of words called degree modifiers, words that quantify the idea they modify. More specifically, they derive from a group of words called adverbs of degree, also known as degree adverbs. However, when used grammatically as intensifiers, these words cease to be degree adverbs, because they no longer quantify the idea they modify; instead, they emphasize it emotionally. By contrast, the words moderately, slightly, and barely are de |