A modifier such as very, terribly or damned that has little or no meaning of its own and serves to enhance and give additional emotional context to the word that it modifies
A kind of adverb, used to indicate the level or intensity of an adjective or another adverb Examples include "very", "slightly", "rather", "somewhat" and "extremely" An example of use with an adjective: "Steve was somewhat tired" An example of use with an adverb: "Mary ran very quickly"
In grammar, an intensifier is a word such as `very' or `extremely' which you can put in front of an adjective or adverb in order to make its meaning stronger. a word, usually an adverb, that is used to emphasize an adjective, adverb, or verb, for example the word 'absolutely' in the phrase 'that's absolutely wonderful'
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"