Intensifiers (very, at all)
Intensifiers are adverbs or adverbial phrases that strengthen the meaning of other expressions and show emphasis. Words that we commonly use as intensifiers include absolutely, completely, extremely, highly, rather, really, so, too, totally, utterly, very and at all: …

intensifier | American Dictionary

intensifier
noun[ C ]
us/ɪnˈten·səˌfɑɪ·ər/(alsointensive, us/ɪnˈten·sɪv/)
grammar
a word, esp. an adverb, that is used to add force to another word or phrase:
In "extremely large" and "I strongly object," "extremely" and "strongly" are intensifiers.

Examples of intensifier

intensifier
Perhaps surprisingly, given the association with women, the use of intensifiers is also associated with colloquial usage and nonstandard varieties.
Do different communities have different "layers" of intensifiers?
Using this as a baseline, our analysis is restricted to adjectival heads, and of these, only in constructions that could possibly be modified by intensifiers.
Furthermore, in line with the expected pathways of change for intensifiers, very much appears to have started to lose intensifying force.
Taken together, the seven articles reflect well the different approaches adopted in current work on intensifiers and will hopefully stimulate further research in the field.
The intensifier that most commonly licenses taboo terms is so.
It is an easy task to find the intensifiers themselves, but difficult, if not impossible, to find where they could have occurred but did not.
Extrapolating from these observations, use of intensifiers with predicate adjectives could be taken as evidence for a later stage in the delexicalization process.
In the next section, we subject the incoming intensifier really to an analysis that treats both the internal and external factors simultaneously.
Rather, this use of taboo terms can appear anywhere the appropriate intensifiers can appear.
In addition, the analysis also includes intensifiers, such as universal and negative pronouns (all, nothing), amplifiers (a lot, forever), and emphatics (extreme/-ly/, total/-ly/).
We have also discovered an overriding constraint such that intensifiers are preferred with predicative adjectives, and this is true regardless of the intensifier.
Middle-class speakers used suffixed forms in the adverb classes studied, including intensifiers, twice as frequently as working-class speakers.
Table 5 shows the distribution of really as intensifier and as modal by these four speakers.
Those so labeled almost always use the term as an intensifier, not a philosophical label.
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