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Adjective: intense  in'tens
  1. Possessing or displaying a distinctive feature to a heightened degree
    "intense heat"; "intense anxiety"; "intense desire"; "intense emotion"; "the skunk's intense acrid odour"; "intense pain"; "enemy fire was intense"
     
  2. Extremely sharp or intense
    "intense itching and burning"
    - acute
     
  3. (of colour) having the highest saturation
    "intense blue"
    - vivid

Sounds like: intents

See also: aggravated, bad, big, blood-and-guts, brutal, cold, concentrated, consuming, deep, degree, exquisite, extreme, fierce, grade, immoderate, intemperate, intensely, intensified, intensity, intensive, intensively, keen, level, main, overwhelming, profound, pure, raging, saturated, screaming, severe, sharp, smart, strong, tearing, terrible, terrific, thick, trigger-happy, unabated, unrelenting, utmost, uttermost, vehement, violent, wicked, wild

Antonym: mild

Encyclopedia: Intense