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語源

From intensify +‎ -er; from the most common use of such terms, to intensify an adjective.

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名詞

intensifier (plural intensifiers)

1. That which intensifies.
2. (linguistics) A word or particle that heightens the intensity of meaning of a term.

   Synonyms: expletive, intensive (AmE)

   Antonym: downtoner

   • 2020 August 8, Zui, “Controlled Languages — Newspeak”, in The Language Closet‎:

     “Plus-” and “doubleplus-” are both intensifiers that replace words of different extremities, and the words very and extremely respectively. So words like great, excellent and horrible are rendered redundant in Newspeak, replaced by “plusgood”, “doubleplusgood” and “doubleplusungood” respectively. Note how “un-” has to follow the intensifier prefix.

3. (photography) A chemical agent used to intensify the lights or shadows of a photograph.

派生語

参考

• Category:English intensifiers

参照

• Eugene E. Loos [et al.], editors (2003), “intensifier”, in Glossary of Linguistic Terms, Dallas, Tex.: SIL International.
• “intensifier”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.