INTENSELY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does intensely mean? 

• INTENSELY (adverb)
  The adverb INTENSELY has 2 senses:

1. to a high degree; extremely; in high concentration or density

2. to a great depth psychologically or emotionally

  Familiarity information: INTENSELY used as an adverb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INTENSELY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

To a high degree; extremely; in high concentration or density

Context example:

the sky was intensely blue

Pertainym:

intense (possessing or displaying a distinctive feature to a heightened degree)

Sense 2

Meaning:

To a great depth psychologically or emotionally

Synonyms:

deeply; intensely; profoundly

Context example:

she loved him intensely

 Context examples 

Men were holding their breaths, intensely unconscious of the fact.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

These intensely phagocytic cells line the walls of the sinusoids of the liver and form a part of the reticuloendothelial system.

(Kupffer Cell, NCI Thesaurus)

A year ago I was myself intensely miserable, because I thought I had made a mistake in entering the ministry: its uniform duties wearied me to death.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Scientists have been intensely searching for simpler ways to predict memory decline and Alzheimer’s disease well before signs of memory loss appear.

(Study Points to Possible Blood Test For Memory Decline, Alzheimer’s, NIH)

The strength of the magnetic field depends on the amount of convection in the star, or how intensely hot gas stirs the interior of the star.

(NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory Finds Planet That Makes Star Act Deceptively Old, NASA)

This intensely hot core then expelled the star’s outer layers, causing it to balloon to hundreds of times larger than its original size.

(Giant Bubbles on Red Giant Star’s Surface, ESO)

It was intensely inbred by N. Goto in 1978 from a single Carworth pair, the progeny of which is used today.

(CF-1 Mouse, NCI Thesaurus)

The cytoplasm is agranular, stains moderately to lightly basophilic, and often has an intensely stained periphery and a prominent perinuclear zone.

(Monoblast, NCI Thesaurus)

Rare, chronic, papulo-vesicular disease characterized by an intensely pruritic eruption consisting of various combinations of symmetrical, erythematous, papular, vesicular, or bullous lesions.

(Dermatitis Herpetiformis, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

He wrote prolifically, intensely, from morning till night, and late at night, except when he broke off to go to the reading-room, draw books from the library, or to call on Ruth.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)