INTENT


Meaning of INTENT in English

I. noun

1.

Synonyms: intention , animus, design, intendment, meaning, plan, purpose

Related Word: conation, volition, will

Contrasted words: chance, fortune, hap, hazard, luck

Antonyms: accident

2.

Synonyms: meaning 1, acceptation, import, intendment, purport, sense, significance, significancy, signification, understanding

II. adjective

1.

having one's mind or attention deeply fixed

the student was too intent on his work to hear the phone

Synonyms: absorbed, deep, engaged, engrossed, immersed, preoccupied, rapt, wrapped, wrapped up

Related Word: attending, attentive, minding, watching; concentrated, riveted

Contrasted words: absent, absent-minded, abstracted, bemused, faraway, preoccupied; daydreaming, napping, oblivious

Antonyms: distracted

2.

Synonyms: decided 2, bent, decisive, determined, resolute, resolved, set, settled

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