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intentional
[ in-ten-shuh-nl ]
adjective
an intentional insult.
Antonyms: accidental
- of or relating to intention or purpose.
- Metaphysics.
- pertaining to an appearance, phenomenon, or representation in the mind; phenomenal; representational.
- pertaining to the capacity of the mind to refer to an existent or nonexistent object.
- pointing beyond itself, as consciousness or a sign.
intentional
/ ɪnˈtɛnʃənəl /
adjective
- performed by or expressing intention; deliberate
- of or relating to intention or purpose
- philosophy
- of or relating to the capacity of the mind to refer to different kinds of objects
- (of an object) existing only as the object of some mental attitude rather than in reality, as a unicorn in she hopes to meet a unicorn See also intensional
Derived Forms
- inˌtentionˈality, noun
- inˈtentionally, adverb
Other Words From
- in·ten·tion·al·i·ty [in-ten-sh, uh, -, nal, -i-tee], noun
- in·ten·tion·al·ly adverb
- sub·in·ten·tion·al adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of intentional1
Synonym Study
Example Sentences
Elizabeth Hamon Reid, 39VP engineering, Google GeoThe biggest change that I’ve made as a result of the pandemic is that I have to be more intentional in a number of areas.
This intentional, early morning quiet time, while often hard to carve out with two young kids at home, sets the tone for the day and makes me a better wife, mom, leader, and investor.
These racial disparities, along with evidence suggesting intentional discrimination, erode the community trust that is critical to effective policing.
We offer the flexibility to live and work from wherever you want, in nature or in the city, changing locations whenever you want, but at the same time being part of an intentional community.
As Alexandra Rojas, executive director of Justice Democrats, told HuffPost, “We’ve been intentional about building infrastructure and an ecosystem that can take on decades worth of the establishment’s.”
At the moment, the same dynamic is at work, but largely the result of market forces, not intentional policy in Washington.
But there is more to this behaviour than intentional amnesia.
Surely it was intentional and perpetrated by Assad or ISIS or a still-unrecognized radical group.
The Estonian statement implied the alleged abduction is an intentional slap in the face to the Americans.
To McCain, that amounts to an American alliance with those countries, whether that was intentional or not.
He loathed himself for submitting to her cruelty, for it was intentional cruelty—she made him writhe and suffer of set purpose.
The term malice means something more than "the intentional doing of a wrongful act to the injury of another without legal excuse."
According to him, literature ought to be intentional, and the accidental restrained as much as possible.
And for two years he had without intentional selfishness kept Sara Lee for himself.
It was more ferocious than the merely brutal glare of a tiger; it was an intentional malignity, super-beastly and sub-human.
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