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in·ten·tion·al  (n-tnsh-nl)
adj.
1. Done deliberately; intended: an intentional slight. See Synonyms at voluntary.
2. Having to do with intention.
in·tention·al·ly adv.
intentional
Adjective
done on purpose
intentionally adv
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.intentional - characterized by conscious design or purpose; "intentional damage"; "a knowing attempt to defraud"; "a willful waste of time"
knowing
intended - resulting from one's intentions; "your intended trip abroad"; "an intended insult"
2.intentional - done or made or performed with purpose and intent; "style...is more than the deliberate and designed creation"- Havelock Ellis; "games designed for all ages"; "well-designed houses"
designed
intentional
adjective deliberate, meant, planned, studied, designed, purposed, intended, calculated, wilful, premeditated, prearranged, done on purpose, preconcerted << OPPOSITE unintentional
Translations
intentional [ɪnˈtɛnʃənl] adj → deliberado
intentional [ɪnˈtɛnʃənl] intention adj → intentionnel(le) → délibéré(e)
intentional [ɪnˈtɛnʃənl] intention adj → absichtlich
intentional [ɪnˈtɛnʃənl] adj → intenzionale, deliberato/a


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For man's everyday needs, it would have been quite enough to have the ordinary human consciousness, that is, half or a quarter of the amount which falls to the lot of a cultivated man of our unhappy nineteenth century, especially one who has the fatal ill-luck to inhabit Petersburg, the most theoretical and intentional town on the whole terrestrial globe.
Notes from the Underground by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor View in context
Whatever good may happen to the steersman when he is a sailor, or to the master of the exercises when he himself makes one at the games, is not intentional, or the object of their power; thus in all political governments which are established to preserve and defend the equality of the citizens it is held right to rule by turns.
A Treatise on Government by Aristotle View in context
Polemarchus and I may have been guilty of a little mistake in the argument, but I can assure you that the error was not intentional.
The Republic by Plato View in context
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