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intentionally

[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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He could face the death penalty if a jury decides he intentionally killed the man to end his suffering.

Someone said they saw him spray down my throat intentionally.

Other dope dealers have also, intentionally or inadvertently, achieved public prominence.

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He could face the death penalty if a jury decides he intentionally killed the man to end his suffering.

Someone said they saw him spray down my throat intentionally.

Other dope dealers have also, intentionally or inadvertently, achieved public prominence.

It is unlawful to intentionally snag or attempt to snag any fish in fresh water.

They left the patches on the omentums for a week before transferring them to the rats' intentionally damaged hearts.

The typical casino is an intentionally unpleasant place.

The authorities said they believed that it was intentionally set.

Note: the first fifteen seconds or so of the film are intentionally dark.

The blogs intentionally have a much more casual style than the articles.

For example, firefighters will intentionally set sections of forest aflame to deprive an approaching wildfire of kindling.

It is certainly conceivable that the remains were of homo erectus people that intentionally bred themselves smaller.

The defense tried to use brain scans of the defendant to prove its client had not intentionally defrauded the government.

Going intentionally from our hard-earned civilization into that wilderness, therefore seems a bit unappreciative, even perverse.

At root they are all political problems, many intentionally caused.

We recommend having the watch battery replaced by a jeweler, as it is intentionally difficult to remove the back.

So your comments are either not well thought out or you are intentionally provoking readers to react.

For each statement, the participants had to choose whether the action was done intentionally or unintentionally.

But good teachers we've known often birdwalk, sometimes intentionally.

Anyone running a gateway that talks this routing language can publish incorrect paths, intentionally or otherwise.

Accustomed to two-legged species, the bison ignore people unless they're surprised or intentionally disturbed.

Like maybe the groups that are being intentionally misleading and lying right to your gullible face.

Unlike the gussied up land- and spacescapes, however, the vehicles themselves look intentionally dated.

The actual time listed in the schedule is intentionally incorrect.

Your right that there is a whole lot of money intentionally locked away.

Not all mummies, however, are created intentionally.

Clearly, researchers could never intentionally expose human volunteers to the lethal virus.

Households are intentionally exposing themselves to local market movements.

Impactors are spacecraft intentionally crashed into an asteroid at high speed.

The latter effect is intentionally employed with sound waves in noise-canceling headphones.

The big question is whether the regulators are competent enough to intentionally swindle people.

But not all mummies have been intentionally preserved.

They also have a reduced response when intentionally stressed by being placed in an unfamiliar cage.

But it is still revealing, intentionally and otherwise.

The scripts didn't intentionally encourage low fertility.

Furthermore, our legal advisors strongly advised against the idea of intentionally poisoning horns.

Because of this, you have the same odds of accidently picking the winner as you do of intentionally picking it.

However, the two symbol would be intentionally bigger than the four symbol.

Regardless, it is more than a little disturbing to watch these men intentionally cut themselves, and spill their own blood.

It is intentionally challenging to open the case in order to protect the mechanism.

The supplemental food, bananas and milk, is intentionally bland to keep the apes from becoming dependent.

First, the military can't intentionally target civilians.

It is intentionally challenging to access the case in order to protect the mechanism and increase its water resistance.

Ernst, a seasoned backpacker and paddler, intentionally seeks bad weather to add drama to his photographs.

Engineers may also intentionally flood areas to prevent the possibility of worse flooding.

It is intentionally challenging to open the case in order to protect the mechanism and preserve its water resistance.

Swann realized the shoes found in a thatched roof were put there intentionally.

They typically hide underneath leaves and branches so you have to be intentionally looking for them to find them.

They did not turn on their headlights intentionally to show the location of the convoy.

Andes had failed to provide enough evidence that the university had intentionally discriminated against him.

Many readers suspected they had found an example of such intentionally generated uncertainty in.

In that time, he has intentionally crossed paths with cheetahs.

For insomniacs, the idea of intentionally forgoing shuteye for days--even to set a world record--seems unthinkably perverse.

Our university's academic programs are also intentionally coordinated.

He gave a radio address demanding that executives should be criminally liable if they give intentionally misleading information.

Whether they were preserved intentionally or not, mummies are precious artifacts of lost civilizations.

Create randomized or intentionally deceptive file names or random or intentionally deceptive directory.

The group intentionally set aside still worse possibilities, such as the use of nuclear weapons.

To intentionally end their own life, people need the will to carry out their plans.

Ross intentionally makes the photos of oppressive structures look seductive.

They said he intentionally left a truck door open to let his accomplices get.

But if you intentionally kill someone with a gun and are arrested, you are charged with murder because you have the mens rea.

It is also possible that sensitive information might be covered, either intentionally or not, by a non-sensitive image.

Treeby, for intentionally inflicting emotional distress.

If it were engineered by intentionally putting sulphate into the stratosphere they would judge it to be deliberate.

With prominent fenders and a bright green hood, it's also intentionally reminiscent of a poison dart frog.

Somebody intentionally tried to keep this story from happening.

If someone wants to go around and intentionally spread dirt about me making an decision with my interests in mind, so be.

The only reason to not translate these grammar points properly is to intentionally make the poster sound.

It's something that can't be accomplished consciously or intentionally.

Asche, denied that lawyers had intentionally delayed the trial.

No one in their right mind would intentionally get pregnant during their first year of a full-time faculty appointment.

History is full of useful technologies that have done harm, intentionally or not.

I'd learned how to replicate the problem intentionally.

Thompson along with a feticide bill mandating life imprisonment for intentionally causing the death of a.

The prayers were intentionally and obviously wide in scope as there was a lot of religious diversity there.

Oriskany-the largest ship in the world intentionally sunk as an artificial reef.

When a home is intentionally set ablaze, the crime is a first-degree felony, punishable by up to life in prison.

I've intentionally provoked arguments as an outside member of a student's defense.

The practice isn't illegal, though intentionally masking debt to deceive investors violates guidelines set by regulators.

Most people out there are not intentionally malicious, uncaring, and/or unethical.

Despite what some posting to this board may think, no company intentionally operates recklessly when so much is at stake.

When the facts are intentionally misrepresented to support a belief, the belief is usually fatally flawed.

The pilot is said to have set his house on fire earlier in the day, stolen the plane, and intentionally flown into the building.

It will intentionally argue extremes for the purpouse of social control.

These so-called false memories can be implanted intentionally or accidentally through poor questioning methods.

We all know that no one intentionally set out to create an inaccessible web site.

No one intentionally writes dumb or ineffective regulations.

These situations he describes are created intentionally by a few elite.

Intentionally breaking immigration laws has nothing to do with snipers.

No other animal intentionally puts itself at risk for thrills.

It is not intentionally disrespecting this particular guy.

Hammer marks reveal that the sarcophagi were intentionally destroyed.

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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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