Intensifier in a sentence as a noun

Where I grew up we used "wicked" as an intensifier, as in "he is wicked nice.

And in that construct, the word "so" is an intensifier.

"literally" is used as an intensifier, as a weaker form of its original meaning.

It's an intensifier, appropriately used in this instance.

It can be used as a mild intensifier, as in, "Okay, but, like..."; despite what you may think, simply adding weight to a phrase can and does alter it semantically.

In a vacuum, having another intensifier is a good thing even if it's very similar to existing intensifiers.

> from total, the reduplicated tee being an intensifier – “T-total”Interesting.

Wé Gárdena in géardagumHwæt has usually been translated as "listen", though it has since evolved into the modern word "what" and at least one researched thinks it is not an interjection but an intensifier [1].

The TM is another such intensifier, with the informal meaning of "distinctive or characteristic", rather than literally trade-marked.

It's "incredible versatile" if you want to express how angry you are about something, because you can basically use it as either a drop in replacement or an intensifier for any word you want, but the common meaning is to express your emotional state.

> Hyperbole, yes, but the word is often used in a sense that is semantically identical to "figuratively".No, its used as an intensifier when the fact that the usage is figurative is implicit, it is not used in a manner semantically identical to figuratively.

Intensifier definitions

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"

See also: intensive