Intensifiers

It’s a very interesting movie.
It’s a really interesting story.

Common intensifiers

That painting is amazingly beautiful.
It’s been exceptionally cold in September.
He came incredibly close to driving off the cliff.
Be particularly careful when driving at night.
You look remarkably beautiful today.
The weather has been unusually warm for this time of year.

Strong adjectives

Weak adjectives	Strong adjectives
very big	enormous, huge
very small	tiny
very clever	brilliant
very bad	awful, terrible, disgusting, dreadful
very good	excellent, ideal, wonderful, splendid
very tasty	delicious
very sure	certain

Intensifiers with strong adjectives

absolutely	really
completely	quite
exceptionally	totally
particularly	utterly

Examples

The film was really awful!
That girl is exceptionally brilliant!
I am absolutely starving!

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