Open Multilingual Wordnet 1.3

06321054-n 'a modifier that has little meaning except to intensify the meaning it modifies';

English	intensifier ( ⊳ ) , intensive
Japanese	強意 , 増感剤

Definitions

Japanese: それが修飾している意味を強める以外のほとんどの意味を持たない修飾語
― 『finished up（終えた）』の『up』は強意語である; 『I honestly don't know（私は本当に知らない）』の『honestly（本当に）』は強意語である
English: 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

Relations

Hypernym:	modifier
In Domain–Usage:	living every_last well bloody mighty in_truth madly downright literally most infernally so such positively wonderfully ever just honestly goddam precious
Semantic Field:	communication_n

External Links

TempoWN: ◁ ▲ ▷ (Past: 0.000; Present: 0.278; Future: 0.001)

SentiWN: △ ▽ (+0.00 -0.00) MLSentiCon: △ ▽ (+0.00 -0.00)