Definition of intent

"intent" in the noun sense

1. purpose, intent, intention, aim, design

an anticipated outcome that is intended or that guides your planned actions

"his intent was to provide a new translation"

"good intentions are not enough"

"it was created with the conscious aim of answering immediate needs"

"he made no secret of his designs"

2. intent, purport, spirit

the intended meaning of a communication

"intent" in the adjective sense

1. captive, absorbed, engrossed, enwrapped, intent, wrapped

giving or marked by complete attention to

"that engrossed look or rapt delight"

"enwrapped in dreams"

"so intent on this fantastic...narrative that she hardly stirred"- Walter de la Mare

"rapt with wonder"

"wrapped in thought"

Source: WordNet® (An amazing lexical database of English)

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Quotations for intent

Of every noble action the intent
Is to give worth reward - vice punishment. [ Beaumont and Fletcher ]

A foe to God was never true friend to man;
Some sinister intent taints all he does. [ Young ]

Heaven knows, I had no such intent;
But that necessity so bowed the state.
That I and greatness were compelled to kiss. [ Shakespeare ]

All were at once silent and listened intent. [ Virgil ]

Brook! whose society the poet seeks,
Intent his wasted spirits to renew;
And whom the curious painter doth pursue
Through rocky passes, among flowery creeks.
And tracks thee dancing down thy waterbreaks. [ Wordsworth ]

In genial spring, beneath the quivering shade,
Where cooling vapors breathe along the mead,
The patient fisher takes his silent stand.
Intent, his angle trembling in his hand;
With looks unmoved, he hopes the scaly breed.
And eyes the dancing cork and bending reed. [ Pope ]

'Tis our fast intent
To shake all cares and business from our age,
Conferring them on younger strengths, while we
Unburden'd crawl toward death. [ William Shakespeare ]

Of darkness visible so much be lent, as half to show, half veil, the deep intent. [ Pope ]

As small letters hurt the sight, so do small matters him that is too much intent upon them; they vex and stir up anger, which begets an evil habit in him in reference to greater affairs. [ Plutarch ]

If a young lady has that discretion and modesty without which all knowledge is little worth, she will never make an ostentatious parade of it, because she will rather be intent on acquiring more than on displaying what she has. [ Hannah More ]

What if a man save my life with a draught that was prepared to poison me? The providence of the issue does not at all discharge the obliquity of the intent. And the same reason holds good even in religion itself. It is not the incense, or the offering that is acceptable to God, but the purity and devotion of the worshipper. [ Seneca ]

Genius, without work, is certainly a dumb oracle; and it is unquestionably true that the men of the highest genius have invariably been found to be amongst the most plodding, hardworking, and intent men - their chief characteristic apparently consisting simply in their power of laboring more intensely and effectively than others. [ Samuel Smiles ]

intent in Scrabble®

The word intent is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 6

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays In The Letters intent:

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intent in Words With Friends™

The word intent is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 8

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays In The Letters intent:

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Words within the letters of intent

2 letter words in intent (3 words)

3 letter words in intent (7 words)

4 letter words in intent (4 words)

6 letter words in intent (1 word)

intent + 1 blank (3 words)

Words containing the sequence intent

Words that end with intent (1 word)

Word Growth involving intent

Shorter words in intent

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Longer words containing intent

intentbased

intention intentional intentionalism

intention intentional intentionality

intention intentional intentionally unintentionally

intention intentional nonintentional nonintentionalistic

intention intentional unintentional unintentionally

intention intentioned wellintentioned

intention intentions

intently

intentness

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