Synonyms of the word intent


INTENTABSORBED - AIM - ATTENTIVE - CAPTIVE - DESIGN - END - ENGROSSED - ENWRAPPED - GOAL - IMPORT - INTENTION - MEANING - PURPORT - PURPOSE - SIGNIFICANCE - SIGNIFICATION - SPIRIT - WRAPPED

intent

  • n. A purpose; something that is intended.
  • n. (law) The state of someone’s mind at the time of committing an offence.
  • adj. Firmly fixed or concentrated on something.
  • adj. Engrossed.
  • adj. Unwavering from a course of action.

absorbed

  • adj. Fully occupied with one's thoughts; engrossed.
  • adj. Something that has been absorbed, taken in, engulfed, imbibed, or assimilated.
  • v. simple past tense and past participle of absorb.

aim

  • n. The pointing of a weapon, as a gun, a dart, or an arrow, or object, in the line of direction with the…
  • n. The point intended to be hit, or object intended to be attained or affected.
  • n. Intention; purpose; design; scheme.
  • n. The ability of someone to aim straight; one's faculty for being able to hit a physical target.
  • n. (obsolete) Conjecture; guess.
  • v. (intransitive) To point or direct a missile, or a weapon which propels as missile, towards an object or…
  • v. (intransitive) To direct the intention or purpose; to attempt the accomplishment of a purpose; to try…
  • v. (transitive) To direct or point (e.g. a weapon), at a particular object; to direct, as a missile, an act,…
  • v. (transitive) To direct (something verbal) towards a certain person, thing, or group.
  • v. (obsolete) To guess or conjecture.
  • n. Initialism of America Online. AIM; AOL Instant Messenger.

attentive

  • adj. Paying attention; noticing, watching, listening, or attending closely.

captive

  • n. One who has been captured or is otherwise confined.
  • n. One held prisoner.
  • n. (figuratively) One charmed or subdued by beauty, excellence, or affection; one who is captivated.
  • adj. Held prisoner; not free; confined.
  • adj. Subdued by love; charmed; captivated.
  • adj. Of or relating to bondage or confinement; serving to confine.
  • v. (transitive, archaic) To capture; to take captive.

design

  • n. A plan (with more or less detail) for the structure and functions of an artifact, building or system.
  • n. A pattern, as an element of a work of art or architecture.
  • n. The composition of a work of art.
  • n. Intention or plot.
  • n. The shape or appearance given to an object, especially one that is intended to make it more attractive.
  • n. The art of designing.
  • v. (transitive) To plan and carry out (a picture, work of art, construction etc.).
  • v. (obsolete, intransitive) To plan (to do something).
  • v. (obsolete, transitive) To assign, appoint (something to someone); to designate.
  • v. (obsolete, transitive) To mark out and exhibit; to designate; to indicate; to show; to point out; to appoint.

end

  • n. The initial or (especially) the terminal point of something in space or time.
  • n. The cessation of an effort, activity, state, or motion.
  • n. Death, especially miserable.
  • n. Result.
  • n. A purpose, goal, or aim.
  • n. (cricket) One of the two parts of the ground used as a descriptive name for half of the ground.
  • n. (American football) The position at the end of either the offensive or defensive line, a tight end, a…
  • n. (curling) A period of play in which each team throws eight rocks, two per player, in alternating fashion.
  • n. (mathematics) An ideal point of a graph or other complex.
  • n. That which is left; a remnant; a fragment; a scrap.
  • n. One of the yarns of the worsted warp in a Brussels carpet.
  • v. (ergative) To finish, terminate.

engrossed

  • v. simple past tense and past participle of engross.
  • adj. Preoccupied with something to the exclusion of everything else.
  • adj. (of a document) Finalized, written in large letters.

enwrapped

  • v. simple past tense and past participle of enwrap.

goal

  • n. A result that one is attempting to achieve.
  • n. In many sports, an area into which the players attempt to put an object.
  • n. The act of placing the object into the goal.
  • n. A point scored in a game as a result of placing the object into the goal.
  • n. A noun or noun phrase that receives the action of a verb. The subject of a passive verb or the direct…
  • v. (Gaelic football, Australian rules) To score a goal.

import

  • n. (countable) Something brought in from an exterior source, especially for sale or trade.
  • n. (uncountable) The practice of importing.
  • n. (uncountable) Significance, importance.
  • v. (transitive) To bring (something) in from a foreign country, especially for sale or trade.
  • v. (transitive) To load a file into a software application from another version or system.
  • v. (intransitive) To be important; to be significant; to be of consequence.
  • v. (transitive) To be of importance to (someone or something).
  • v. (transitive) To be incumbent on (someone to do something).
  • v. (transitive) To be important or crucial to (that something happen).
  • v. (transitive) To mean, signify.
  • v. (transitive, archaic) To express, to imply.

intention

  • n. The goal or purpose behind a specific action or set of actions.
  • n. (obsolete) Tension; straining, stretching.
  • n. A stretching or bending of the mind toward an object; closeness of application; fixedness of attention;…
  • n. (obsolete) The object toward which the thoughts are directed; end; aim.
  • n. (obsolete) Any mental apprehension of an object.
  • n. (medicine) The process of the healing of a wound.

meaning

  • n. The symbolic value of something.
  • n. The significance of a thing.
  • n. (semantics) The objects or concept that a word or phrase denotes, or that which a sentence says.
  • n. (obsolete) Intention.
  • v. present participle of mean.
  • adj. Having a (specified) intention.
  • adj. Expressing some intention or significance; meaningful.

purport

  • v. To convey, imply, or profess outwardly (often falsely).
  • v. (construed with to) To intend.
  • n. import, intention or purpose.
  • n. (obsolete) disguise; covering.

purpose

  • n. An object to be reached; a target; an aim; a goal.
  • n. A result that is desired; an intention.
  • n. The act of intending to do something; resolution; determination.
  • n. The subject of discourse; the point at issue.
  • n. The reason for which something is done, or the reason it is done in a particular way.
  • n. (obsolete) Instance; example.
  • v. (transitive) Have set as one's purpose; resolve to accomplish; intend; plan.
  • v. (transitive) (passive) Designed for some purpose.
  • v. (obsolete, intransitive) To have a purpose or intention; to discourse.

significance

  • n. The extent to which something matters; importance.
  • n. Meaning.

signification

  • n. The act of signifying, or something that is signified; significance.
  • n. Evidence for the existence of something.
  • n. A meaning of a word.

spirit

  • n. The collective souls of man or another entity.
  • n. A supernatural being, often but not exclusively without physical form; ghost, fairy, angel.
  • n. Enthusiasm.
  • n. The manner or style of something.
  • n. (usually in the plural) A volatile liquid, such as alcohol. The plural form spirits is a generic term…
  • n. Energy; ardour.
  • n. One who is vivacious or lively; one who evinces great activity or peculiar characteristics of mind or…
  • n. Temper or disposition of mind; mental condition or disposition; intellectual or moral state; often in…
  • n. (obsolete) Air set in motion by breathing; breath; hence, sometimes, life itself.
  • n. (obsolete) A rough breathing; an aspirate, such as the letter h; also, a mark denoting aspiration.
  • n. Intent; real meaning; opposed to the letter, or formal statement.
  • n. (alchemy, obsolete) Any of the four substances: sulphur, sal ammoniac, quicksilver, and arsenic (or, according…
  • n. (dyeing) stannic chloride.
  • v. To carry off, especially in haste, secrecy, or mystery.
  • v. To animate with vigor; to excite; to encourage; to inspirit; sometimes followed by up.

wrapped

  • v. simple past tense and past participle of wrap.
  • adj. encased in a wrapping.
  • adj. Misspelling of rapt.

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