AIMS Synonyms: 89 Similar and Opposite Words

aims 1 of 2

verb

present tense third-person singular of aim

as in casts

to point or turn (something) toward a target or goal the new accounting system is aimed at reducing costs

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as in intends

to have in mind as a purpose or goal aimed to have his paper all done in time to go to the movies

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aims

2 of 2

noun

plural of aim

as in goals

something that one hopes or intends to accomplish the main aim of a trip to the city is to shop for school clothes, but we always go to the artisans' market, too

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Recent Examples of aims

Verb

By providing early warning, Vision Guard aims to give troops additional time to respond before a drone can conduct surveillance or deliver an attack. —

Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 18 June 2026 Departing from traditional geographical or chronological arrangements, the show aims to take advantage of the layout of the galleries, which encircle a courtyard and allow multiple entry points. —

Brian Boucher, ARTnews.com, 17 June 2026 Her firm aims to find the best solutions at the most cost-effective price, not just the most inexpensive materials. —

Caitlin Gunther, Architectural Digest, 17 June 2026 The amendment aims to reduce property taxes by raising the homestead exemption—the value of a home shielded from non-school taxes—from $50,000 to $250,000 over the next two years. —

Manuel Bojorquez, CBS News, 17 June 2026 The satellite also hosts the European Union’s Copernicus Sentinel-4 mission, which aims to monitor key air quality trace gases and aerosols over Europe in support of the Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS) at high spatial resolution and with a fast revisit time. —

Richard Tribou, The Orlando Sentinel, 17 June 2026 Gene therapy company UniQure developed a one-time treatment, AMT-130, that aims to lower brain levels of the mutant protein behind the disease, called huntingtin. —

Beth Mole, ArsTechnica, 17 June 2026 The press aims to champion writing that is urgent and insurgent. —

Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 11 June 2026 The answers are out there, and NewsNation aims to find them. —

Tony Maglio, HollywoodReporter, 10 June 2026

Noun

The fighting stopped, but its aims did not. —

Güney Yıldız, Forbes.com, 18 June 2026 Elimination of those missiles was one of the primary aims of the war, and thousands of Iranians, as well as more than a dozen Americans, died contesting it. —

Graeme Wood, The Atlantic, 18 June 2026 These aims put it on a similar trajectory to old rival Tesla, with both companies eyeing humanoid robots as a new frontier, even if the technology is still in its early stages. —

Beatrice Nolan, Fortune, 15 June 2026 Those aims do not appear to have been achieved. —

Richard Hall, Time, 14 June 2026 The mix of old and new aims to blend nostalgia with Miami’s new culinary identity, which has become far more dynamic since China Grill first opened on South Beach, Chodorow said. —

Connie Ogle june 11, Miami Herald, 11 June 2026 Famous for integrating the University of Mississippi four years earlier, Meredith was on the second day of a walk from Memphis, Tennessee, to Jackson, Mississippi, with the aims of registering voters and defying white intimidation. —

Aram Goudsouzian, The Conversation, 11 June 2026 Doing so would endanger his thesis that Russia is actually fulfilling its war aims and Ukraine is not. —

Wyatt Williams, Harpers Magazine, 9 June 2026 Ecology remained characteristic of her approach, but Carson now broadened her aims to encompass a mobilization of public opinion equal to the task of addressing the widespread harms of chemical pesticides in everyday life and agricultural ecosystems alike. —

Literary Hub, 8 June 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for aims

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In doing so, Tehran casts itself in an elevated strategic position, as a party capable of setting terms.

— Hamidreza Azizi, Time, 19 June 2026
The Lever, which surfaced the record, notes the filings are too vague to tie Boafo personally to that contract, and his campaign casts him as a consistent ICE opponent.

— Tonya M. Evans, Forbes.com, 18 June 2026