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intentional

[in-ten-shuh-nl]

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adjective

done with intention or on purpose; intended: an intentional insult.

of or pertaining 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.

Origin:
1520–30; intention + -al¹

Related forms

in·ten·tion·al·i·ty, noun

in·ten·tion·al·ly, adverb

sub·in·ten·tion·al, adjective

sub·in·ten·tion·al·ly, adverb

Synonyms
1. designed, planned. See deliberate.

Antonyms
1. accidental.

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Missouri residents worried that their insurance might not cover flooding caused by an intentional breach of a levee.

But university officials have said his actions were not intentional.

But ostensibly, at any rate, the production cuts were intentional.

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Missouri residents worried that their insurance might not cover flooding caused by an intentional breach of a levee.

But university officials have said his actions were not intentional.

But ostensibly, at any rate, the production cuts were intentional.

No other skeletal bones were recovered and the team found no evidence for intentional burial.

The transgressions ranged from intentional exaggeration to flat-out fibs.

The cause of this population decline is unknown, but it's likely a combination of accidental and intentional overfishing.

More people in more places handling toxic agents create more opportunities for an accident or intentional misuse by an insider.

DiSimone was convicted of murder by depraved indifference and acquitted of intentional murder.

Leary's suicide was an intentional act for which it was not liable.

People here are normally intentional to arrive well on time.

The intentional introduction of worms to compost bins for the purpose of breaking down.

There are similar examples of both intentional and unintentional introductions of so-called invasive species all over the world.

But accidental learning transcends intentional training.

Should private individuals be able to sue others for intentional infliction of emotional distress.

We must be intentional about preparing people for those top jobs.

Whether intentional or not, individuals' loss of privacy paves the way for the wholesale loss of the individual.

Clarke suggested the differences were rooted in inaccurate and changing reporting systems, rather than intentional manipulation.

All our actions are intentional or they shouldn't be defined as actions.

In multicellular organisms, the intentional suicide of some cells is a widely observed phenomenon known as programmed cell death.

Bickle says the duplication was not intentional and that he is.

Launier for defamation and intentional infliction of emotional distress, and the community-college district for negligence.

The lack of child care was at one point an intentional policy choice-made by the nearly all-male.

Whether the creation of ska was intentional or a happy accident is open to debate.

One of the dreams resulted in a major intentional behavior modification.

First degree murder requires premeditation, in a killing that is intentional and deliberate.

Goetsch, who was convicted of first-degree intentional homicide and reckless endangerment.

It seems that a lot of the disinformation posted is intentional.

For example, the law that regulates the safety of drinking water has an intentional loophole that excludes.

Companion planting involves the intentional grouping of certain plants for their mutual benefit as they grow.

There is a known heating effect with radio frequencies and safety codes say to avoid intentional stimulation of biologic tissues.

The two blennies have brought it under intentional control.

The court acknowledged that there was no intentional corruption or venality involved in the actions of the lawyers.

Intentional or not, such practices send a disturbing message.

Hyperbole is defined as obvious and intentional exaggeration.

Indeed, intentional or no, this art exhibit is really an inquiry into travel.

Ominously worse has been its intentional use for selfish manipulation.

Of course, intentional acts of kindness are nothing new.

First came a frightening crash that seemed intentional between two feuding drivers.

Online instruction is an entirely different beast and requires intentional design.

Now all targeted hits to the head are illegal if they are made in an intentional or reckless manner.

Intentional lumps and unevenness and tangled textile fibers give the fabric a heathered look with lots of texture.

Even physicists and chemists use intentional language to quickly describe response.

The intentional stopping, searching, and detention of people is a crime if committed by private citizens.

Armento on the charge of intentional murder of a police officer.

For intentional plagiarism, it's one strike and you're out.

Its fascinating to me to watch the slow transformation of intentional misinformation into what is percieved as truth.

Unless every possible event is already happening anyway, could it be feasible to attempt to deliberately make intentional changes.

There's an interesting question about the relationship of intentional writing to commercial success.

It can be used to evaluate possible accidental or intentional overdose or poisoning.

Freudian slip or intentional malaprop, it doesn't matter.

It's not an accident of incompetence, it's a product of intentional and directed efforts.

Part of the challenge of being human is being self-aware about these biases, and more conscious and intentional in our actions.

Intentional deforestation, however, is far more devastating.

Intentional restriction to one point-of-view is indoctrination and clearly demonstrates intolerance.

It's an expression of publicly proclaimed emotional and intentional commitment.

However, even when the distortion is intentional it's still rarely rises to the level of outright fraud.

Some of the distortions are either intentional or reflect the mind of an incompetent reader.

That's an intentional misrepresentation of the situation.

To this day, it hasn't been confirmed if this was a bug or an intentional joke by the programmers.

Now you are clouding the matter with intentional or inadvertent falsehood.

Is this lazy journalism or an intentional attack on a country that is trying to so much with so little.

They blew up the economy through their incompetence and/or intentional complicity in bubble-blowing.

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World English Dictionary

intentional (ɪnˈtɛnʃən^əl)

—*adj*
1.	performed by or expressing intention; deliberate
2.	of or relating to intention or purpose
3.	philosophy
	a. of or relating to the capacity of the mind to refer to different kinds of objects
	b. See also intensional (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

intention'ality

—n

in'tentionally

—*adv*

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