Intentional

Quick meaning: Intentional is an adjective meaning Intended or planned; done deliberately or voluntarily.

Meaning

Intended or planned; done deliberately or voluntarily.

More Meanings

1. Reflecting intention; marking an expenditure of will in the shape of a matter.
2. (law) Done with intent.
3. (philosophy, obsolete) Object to intention, only appearing due to wilful perception.
4. (philosophy, archaic) Something that has no essential underlying structure but apparition only as defined by perception; object only because consciousness is directed to it.
5. (grammar) The cohortative mood as found in Hebrew (terminology borrowed from Julius Friedrich Böttcher † 1863 and now outmoded), and constructions of similar purpose in even more exotic languages.

Example Sentences

It should, however, be borne in mind that even in the cohortative proper, the -ah does not add to the simple imperfect the ‘intentional’ signification expressed by that mood: the signification is already there, and the new termination merely renders it more prominent.

Word Forms

• intentionals

Synonyms for intentional

Depending on context, synonyms include deliberate, purposeful, purposive, conscious, witting, volitational.

Antonyms for intentional

Common opposites include unintentional, accidental, unwitting, undesigned.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include wilful, deliberate, knowing, voluntary, designed, willful.

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