Thesaurus
intent
Synonyms and Antonyms of intent
- intent on finishing her sculpture in time for the group show
certain, cocksure, confident, positive, sure
steady, unfaltering, unhesitating, unswerving, unwavering
adamant, adamantine, dogged, hard, hardened, hardheaded, headstrong, immovable, implacable, inflexible, mulish, obdurate, persistent, pertinacious, perverse, pigheaded, rigid, self-willed, stubborn, tenacious, unbending, uncompromising, unrelenting, unyielding, willful (or wilful)
on one's mettle
distrustful, doubtful, dubious, mistrustful, skeptical, suspicious, uncertain, unconvinced, undecided, unsettled, unsure
disinclined, indisposed, loath (also loth), reluctant
- He was so intent on his work that he didn't hear the dog bark.
all ears
intent
Synonyms and Antonyms of intent
- I'm sorry that I hurt your feelings; that wasn't my intent.
name of the game
- The wording was a little unclear, but I think I grasped the intent.
clue, cue, hint, implication, indication, inkling, intimation, suggestion
bottom, essence, essentiality, nature, soul, spirit, stuff
acceptance, acceptation, definition
core, heart, kernel, marrow, nub, nucleus, pith, point, quick
Synonym Discussion of intent
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- announced his intention to marry
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- the clear intent of the statute
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- being successful was her purpose in life
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- the order of events came by accident, not design
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- her aim was to raise film to an art form
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- willing to use any means to achieve his end
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- his constant object was the achievement of pleasure
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- their objective is to seize the oil fields
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- worked years to reach her goals
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