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has gloss	(noun) a modifier that has little meaning except to intensify the meaning it modifies; "`up' in `finished up' is an intensifier"; "`honestly' in `I honestly don't know' is an intensifier" intensifier, intensive
has gloss	eng: An intensifier (or adverb of degree) is a linguistic term for a modifier that has little or no meaning of its own and serves to enhance and give additional emotional context to the word that it modifies. Intensifiers roughly qualify a point on a gradable semantic property. Syntactically, intensifiers pre-modify either adjectives or adverbs. Semantically, they increase the emotional content of an expression. Use of an intensifier subtly suggests to the reader what emotion he should feel. By naming an emotion within the adverb, the writer compels the reader to consider this emotion and hence he begins to feel it. The basic intensifier is very. It can be used with many verbs. Other intensifiers often have the same meaning as very.
lexicalization	eng: intensifier
lexicalization	eng: intensive
subclass of	(noun) a content word that qualifies the meaning of a noun or verb modifier, qualifier