intensive

Universal Words adjective 1 involving a lot of work or activity done in a short time: an intensive language course * two weeks of intensive training * intensive diplomatic negotiations 2 extremely thorough; done with a lot of care: His disappearance has been the subject of intensive investigation. 3 (of methods of farming) aimed at producing as much food as possible using as little land or as little money as possible: Traditionally reared animals grow more slowly than those reared under intensive farming conditions. * intensive agriculture seealsoCAPITAL-INTENSIVE, LABOUR-INTENSIVE intensively adverb: This case has been intensively studied. * intensively farmed land