Synonyms of the word intend


INTENDCONVEY - DESIGNATE - DESTINE - IMPART - MEAN - PLAN - SIGNIFY - SPECIFY - THINK - WILL - WISH

intend

  • v. (intransitive, usually followed by the particle "to") To fix the mind upon (something to be accomplished);…
  • v. To fix the mind on; attend to; take care of; superintend; regard.
  • v. (obsolete) To stretch to extend; distend.
  • v. To strain; make tense.
  • v. (obsolete) To intensify; strengthen.
  • v. To apply with energy.
  • v. To bend or turn; direct, as one’s course or journey.
  • v. To design mechanically or artistically; fashion; mold.
  • v. To pretend; counterfeit; simulate.

convey

  • v. To transport; to carry; to take from one place to another.
  • v. To communicate; to make known; to portray.
  • v. (law) To transfer legal rights (to).
  • v. (obsolete) To manage with privacy; to carry out.
  • v. (obsolete) To carry or take away secretly; to steal; to thieve.

designate

  • adj. Designated; appointed; chosen.
  • v. To mark out and make known; to point out; to name; to indicate; to show; to distinguish by marks or description;…
  • v. To call by a distinctive title; to name.
  • v. To indicate or set apart for a purpose or duty; -- with to or for; to designate an officer for or to the…

destine

  • v. To preordain.
  • v. To assign something (especially finance) for a particular use.
  • v. To have a particular destination.

impart

  • v. To give a part or share.
  • v. To communicate the knowledge of; to make known; to show by words or tokens; to tell; to disclose.
  • v. To hold a conference or consultation.
  • v. To obtain a share of; to partake of.

mean

  • v. To intend.
  • v. To convey meaning.
  • v. (transitive) To have conviction in (something said or expressed); to be sincere in (what one says).
  • v. (transitive) To result in; to bring about.
  • v. (transitive) To be important (to).
  • v. (Ireland, Britain regional) To lament.
  • adj. (obsolete) Common; general.
  • adj. Of a common or low origin, grade, or quality; common; humble.
  • adj. Low in quality or degree; inferior; poor; shabby.
  • adj. Without dignity of mind; destitute of honour; low-minded; spiritless; base.
  • adj. Of little value or account; worthy of little or no regard; contemptible; despicable.
  • adj. (chiefly Britain) Ungenerous; stingy, tightfisted; North American English: cheap; formal: niggardly, penurious,…
  • adj. Disobliging; pettily offensive or unaccommodating; small.
  • adj. Selfish; acting without consideration of others; unkind.
  • adj. Causing or intending to cause intentional harm; bearing ill will towards another; cruel; malicious.
  • adj. Powerful; fierce; harsh; damaging.
  • adj. Accomplished with great skill; deft; hard to compete with.
  • adj. (informal, often childish) Difficult, tricky.
  • adj. Having the mean (see noun below) as its value.
  • adj. (obsolete) Middling; intermediate; moderately good, tolerable.
  • n. (now chiefly in the plural) A method or course of action used to achieve some result.
  • n. (obsolete, in the singular) An intermediate step or intermediate steps.
  • n. Something which is intermediate or in the middle; an intermediate value or range of values; a medium.
  • n. (music, now historical) The middle part of three-part polyphonic music; now specifically, the alto part…
  • n. (statistics) The average of a set of values, calculated by summing them together and dividing by the number…
  • n. (mathematics) Any function of multiple variables that satisfies certain properties and yields a number…
  • n. (mathematics) Either of the two numbers in the middle of a conventionally presented proportion, as 2 and…

plan

  • n. A drawing showing technical details of a building, machine, etc., with unwanted details omitted, and often…
  • n. A set of intended actions, usually mutually related, through which one expects to achieve a goal.
  • n. A two-dimensional drawing of a building as seen from above with obscuring or irrelevant details such as…
  • n. A method; a way of procedure; a custom.
  • n. A subscription to a service; e.g., a phone plan, an internet plan.
  • v. (transitive) To design (a building, machine, etc.).
  • v. (transitive) To create a plan for.
  • v. (intransitive) To intend.
  • v. See plan on.
  • v. (intransitive) To make a plan.

signify

  • v. To give (something) a meaning or an importance.
  • v. To show one’s intentions with a sign etc.
  • v. To mean; to betoken.

specify

  • v. (transitive) To state explicitly, or in detail, or as a condition.
  • v. (transitive) To include in a specification.
  • v. (transitive) To bring about a specific result.

think

  • v. (transitive) To ponder, to go over in one's head.
  • v. (intransitive) To communicate to oneself in one's mind, to try to find a solution to a problem.
  • v. (intransitive) To conceive of something or someone (usually followed by of; infrequently, by on).
  • v. (transitive) To be of the opinion (that).
  • v. (transitive) To guess; to reckon.
  • v. (transitive) To consider, judge, regard, or look upon (something) as.
  • v. To plan; to be considering; to be of a mind (to do something).
  • v. To presume; to venture.
  • n. (chiefly Britain) An act of thinking; consideration (of something).
  • v. (obsolete except in methinks) To seem, to appear.

will

  • v. (rare, transitive) To wish, desire (something).
  • v. (rare, intransitive) To wish or desire (that something happen); to intend (that).
  • v. (auxiliary) To habitually do (a given action).
  • v. (auxiliary) To choose to (do something), used to express intention but without any temporal connotations…
  • v. (auxiliary) Used to express the future tense, sometimes with some implication of volition when used in…
  • v. (auxiliary) To be able to, to have the capacity to.
  • n. One's independent faculty of choice; the ability to be able to exercise one's choice or intention.
  • n. One's intention or decision; someone's orders or commands.
  • n. The act of choosing to do something; a person’s conscious intent or volition.
  • n. A formal declaration of one's intent concerning the disposal of one's property and holdings after death;…
  • n. (archaic) That which is desired; one's wish.
  • n. (archaic) Desire, longing. (Now generally merged with later senses.).
  • v. (archaic) To wish, desire.
  • v. (transitive, intransitive) To instruct (that something be done) in one's will.
  • v. (transitive) To try to make (something) happen by using one's will (intention).
  • v. (transitive) To bequeath (something) to someone in one's will (legal document).

wish

  • n. a desire, hope, or longing for something or for something to happen.
  • n. an expression of such a desire etc.
  • n. the process of expressing or thinking about such a desire etc. (often connected with ideas of magic and…
  • n. the thing desired or longed for.
  • n. (Sussex) a water meadow.
  • v. (transitive) To desire; to want.
  • v. (intransitive, followed by for) To hope (for a particular outcome).
  • v. (ditransitive) To bestow (a thought or gesture) towards (someone or something).
  • v. (intransitive, followed by to and an infinitive) To request or desire to do an activity.
  • v. (transitive) To recommend; to seek confidence or favour on behalf of.

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