intentional English

Meaning intentional meaning

What does intentional mean?

Definitions in simple English

intentional Adjective

— If an action is intentional, it is done on purpose. "Teacher! Jimmy just stepped on my foot again! That was intentional! Please make him stop."

intentional

— adjective (= knowing) characterized by conscious design or purpose intentional damage a knowing attempt to defraud a willful waste of time

— adjective (= designed) done or made or performed with purpose and intent style...is more than the deliberate and designed creation — Havelock Ellis games designed for all ages well-designed houses

Synonyms intentional synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as intentional?

intentional English » English

deliberate

premeditated

wilful

purposeful

intended

on purpose

designed

willful

voluntary

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planned

knowing

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studied

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show interest

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self-indulgent

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industrious

expedient

desirable

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Topics intentional topics

What do people use intentional to talk about?

Language and thought Think Mind

Think about

• What words refer to thinking carefully?
  attend attention beware careful caution cautious concentrate concentration concern concerned consider consideration foresight guard intentional interest occupy precaution provident prudent purposeful refuse regard tend think thoroughly give thought thoughtful think hard

Language and thought Want Decide, plan

Intend

• What words describe something that someone intended to do?
  intentional intentionally on purpose because I wanted to

Language and thought Want Decide, plan

Deliberately

• What words describe something that is done deliberately?
  deliberate intentional conscious calculated premeditated

Examples intentional examples

How do I use intentional in a sentence?

Simple sentences

His mistake was intentional.

It wasn't intentional.

I'm sure that wasn't intentional.

Tom suggested that what Mary did was intentional.

I think what Tom did was intentional.

I think it was intentional.

Was that intentional?

It was intentional.

It was not intentional.

Movie subtitles

I'm sure it wasn't intentional.

Well, it wasn't intentional.

Sure because I'm a fool, a deliberate, intentional fool and that's the worst kind.

I'm sure it wasn't intentional, ma'am.

And it wasn't intentional, but inevitable.

Sorry, that wasn't intentional.

Any reference to people living is purely intentional.

A deliberate, intentional fool.

IT IS INTENTIONAL.

An intentional one. Uh, the governor's fasting.

Sorry, it wasn't intentional.

Intentional?

In other words, an intentional stranger.

Was. this intentional?

We thought it was intentional.

It may not be intentional.

It wasn't intentional, I assure you.

It was not intentional.

An intentional one.

It was intentional.

Devon, it wasn't intentional.

Sorry, that was intentional!

Intentional or not, I've got a feeling they're a smokescreen for the burglaries.

I can't keep on believing it was intentional.

As in hogwash, malarkey, jive. An intentional fabrication.

It was an intentional killing.

If I do, it isn't intentional.

Whether it was coincidence or intentional. Come on, Karl.

This is intentional.

We have now achieved the dubious distinction of making our own major catastrophes both intentional and inadvertent.

Intentional face contact, penalty point.

It shows that it wasn't intentional.

When you're an egoist, none of the harm you do is intentional.

I'm not implying that you did anything intentional.

Then are you implying an intentional assault?

News and current affairs

The legal definition of torture implies the intentional infliction of severe suffering.

But the failure of this administration runs deeper than its chronic and intentional diversion of resources away from the types of policies that keep people safe from disaster.

The probability of catastrophes, whether intentional or not, resulting from human activity appears to be increasing because of the rapidity and direction of technological advances.

The intentional character and symbolic significance of burials prior to 30,000 years ago, especially those of Neanderthals, remain the subject of intense debate.

This has probably cost the world a decade of wasted time in developing a policy to deal with the problem, particularly given that intentional inaction is likely to continue until Bush's term is finished.

This is intentional.

Democracies killed about 2 million people, primarily through intentional bombing of civilian targets.

Although no consensus has yet emerged on a code of ethics, there is wide agreement among scientists that a robust public health system is an essential safeguard against biological threats, whether intentional or unintentional.

Ban can also make the case that there is no justification in today's world for terror - defined here as the intentional harming of civilians for political purposes.

Broad agreement is needed that any intentional killing of civilians and noncombatants is unacceptable, and that its perpetrators and supporters must be punished.

Qaddafi thus took the first step - intentional or not - toward creating a modern nation-state.

It would help enormously in this regard if Arab and Muslim political leaders spoke out against the intentional killing of men, women, and children by anyone or any group for political purposes.

While rejecting censorship, the US government should not renounce its authority to speak sensibly and condemn an appalling and apparently intentional provocation that produced such tragic consequences.

In withdrawing his conclusion that there was a policy of intentional targeting of civilians by Israel, Goldstone has not said that his judgment, based on the evidence before him at the time, was wrong.