Meaning

2 senses
  1. (countable, uncountable)Something that is intended.

    Absicht

    наме́рениеnamérenije

    намірnamir

    the intended meaning of a communication

  2. (countable, uncountable)The state of someone’s mind at the time of committing an offence.

    у́мыселúmysel

    умиселumysel

Examples

82 sentences
  1. What's your intent?

    Які в тебе наміри? — deniko

  2. Tom is intent on doing that.

  3. He was too intent on studying to hear my call.

  4. It isn't my intent to hurt you in any way.

  5. It's not my intent to hurt you in any way.

Translations

8 languages
Українська
By meaning 2
something that is intended:
state of someone’s mind at the time of committing an offence:
Русский
By meaning 2
something that is intended:
state of someone’s mind at the time of committing an offence:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
something that is intended:

Origin

Existing since Middle English entente, from Old French entent or entente, ultimately from

Existing since Middle English entente, from Old French entent or entente, ultimately from Latin intentus. Modified later in spelling to align more closely with the Latin word. Compare intention.

Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0 · source

Forms

plural: intents
Singularintent
Pluralintents

regular

Synonyms

6 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

12 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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