Definitions for intent

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intent in·tent

Spelling: [in-tent]

IPA: /ɪnˈtɛnt/

Intent is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 36 anagrams from letters in intent (einntt).

Definitions for intent

noun

1. something that is intended; purpose; design; intention:
2. the act or fact of intending, as to do something:
3. Law. the state of a person's mind that directs his or her actions toward a specific object.
4. meaning or significance.

Idioms

1. to / for all intents and purposes, for all practical purposes; practically speaking; virtually:

adjective

1. firmly or steadfastly fixed or directed, as the eyes or mind:
2. having the attention sharply focused or fixed on something:
3. determined or resolved; having the mind or will fixed on some goal:
4. earnest; intense:

Origin of intent

1175-1225; Middle English Late Latin intentus an aim, purpose, Latin: a stretching out (inten(dere) to intend + -tus suffix of v. action); replacing Middle English

Examples for intent

He confessed to me that he was apt to go astray when intent on rhyme.

She could see her father looking at her, intent, as if he wondered.

But Than Dar ignored them, intent on a traditional Buddhist funeral for her husband in Rangoon.

Dodge has also had something like 20 museum shows and is intent on establishing a museum that would also show his 225 posters.

Some brought rocks and bricks, intent on clashing with the police.

Roy: I try to set an intent every morning and take time to think about whatever I hope to achieve that day.

In "Lear," Shakespeare was intent on expressing his own disillusion and naked misery.

The details differ but the intent is the same as in a high-profile case of police brutality.

Surely there must have been God's intent in the making of this new-world Republic.

While he was intent on these observations, Elinor turned to the painter.