Intentional
[ɪn'tenʃ(ə)n(ə)l] or [ɪn'tɛnʃənl]
Definition
(adj.) characterized by conscious design or purpose; 'intentional damage'; 'a knowing attempt to defraud'; 'a willful waste of time' .
Typed by Emile--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Done by intention or design; intended; designed; as, the act was intentional, not accidental.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Designed, intended, premeditated, contemplated, preconcerted, studied.
Edited by Carmella
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Purposed, designed, deliberate, intended, done_on_purpose, contemplated,premeditated, studied
ANT:Undesigned, casual, unintentional, accidental, fortuitous
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Examples
- Polemarchus and I may have been guilty of a little mistake in the argument, but I can assure you that the error was not intentional. Plato. The Republic.
- Then he went forward, with quick, graceful, intentional courtesy. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The omission at that point was intentional. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- They had not met since the day of the Van Osburgh wedding, and on his side the avoidance had been intentional. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- Intentional agencies--schools--and explicit material--studies--are devised. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- You really think this is due to some--some intentional interference of Lawrence Lefferts's? Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- As societies become more complex in structure and resources, the need of formal or intentional teaching and learning increases. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- The reservation was not intentional. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Chance or intentional real or imaginary, it closed the conversation. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- It is the very artery of intelligence, of the intentional rendering of one experience available for guidance of another. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
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