adjective
- Possessing or displaying a distinctive feature to a heightened degree.
- usage: "intense heat"; "intense anxiety"; "intense desire"; "intense emotion"; "the skunk's intense acrid odor"; "intense pain"; "enemy fire was intense"
- Extremely sharp or intense.
- usage: "acute pain"; "felt acute annoyance"; "intense itching and burning"
- synonyms: acute
- Of color. ( having the highest saturation)
- usage: "vivid green"; "intense blue"
- synonyms: vivid
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