intensifier, n.
(intensifiers)
(intensifiers)
a modifier that has little meaning except to intensify the meaning it modifies
<noun.communication>
intensifier intensive
sample sentences
"`up' in `finished up' is an intensifier""`honestly' in `I honestly don't know' is an intensifier"
lexical pointers
derivationally related form
semantic pointers
member of this domain (usage)
living
every last
well
damn, bloody, all-fired, all-firedly
mighty, right, mightily, powerful
in truth, really, truly
madly, insanely, deadly, deucedly, devilishly
downright
literally
most
infernally, hellishly
so
such
positively
wondrously, wonderfully, superbly, marvelously, wondrous, toppingly, marvellously, terrifically
ever, ever so
just, simply
honestly, frankly, candidly
goddam, goddamn, goddamned
precious, preciously
hypernym