Text: made, given, or done with full awareness of what one is doing<Iʼm fairly sure that your “accidental” attack on your sister with a water balloon was really intentional>Synonymsdeliberate, purposeful, willful (or wilful)Related Wordsknowing, witting; designed, intended, planned; conscious; advised, calculated, considered, measured, reasoned, studied, thoughtful, weighed; premeditated; discretionary, elective, optional, volunteerNear Antonymsinadvertent, unwitting; accidental, chance, haphazard, hit-or-miss, incidental, random; aimless, desultory, purposeless; abrupt, impetuous, sudden; coerced, forced, involuntary; compulsory, mandatory, necessary, nonelective, obligatory, ordered, required; casual; extemporaneous, impromptu, impulsive, instinctive, spontaneous, unforced, unpremeditatedAntonymsunintentional

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