intentional

CEFRC1

/ɪnˈtɛnʃənəl/

adjective

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01
adjective
Done deliberately, rather than by accident.
02
adjective
Extra detail
Done with intent.

Examples

Tom suggested that what Mary did was intentional.
I'm sure that wasn't intentional.

At a glance

Sits at C1 on the CEFR scale

Senses: 5
Parts of speech: 1
Citations: 3
Synonyms: 5

Also pronounced

[ɪnˈtʰenʃənɫ̩]
[ɪnˈtʰɛnʃənɫ̩]

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adjective

Extra meanings

Reflecting intention; marking an expenditure of will in the shape of a matter.
Intended or planned; done deliberately or voluntarily.
Object to intention, only appearing due to wilful perception.

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His mistake was intentional.

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It should, however, be borne in mind that even in the cohortative proper, the -ah does not add to the simple imperfect the ‘intentional’ signification expressed by that mood: the signification is already there, and the new termination merely renders it more prominent.
1892, Samuel Rolles Driver, A Treatise on the Use of the Tenses in Hebrew, Third, Revised And Improved edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 79
When Kafka’s novels are analyzed with the autistic frame of reference in mind the behavior of his protagonists make more sense and will reveal that Kafka’s protagonists focus on external behavioral cues which are guided by Kafka’s education and mindset of a lawyer. As such Kafka’s protagonists are a reflection of the thinking and behavior of Kafka the author. Critics and literary scholars misinterpret Kafka’s work by focusing on aspects such as the psychological and mental state of the characters, which are of limited actual concern for the externally intentional focus of the writer Kafka.
2017 May 16, Jerry Stuger, “Kafka and Autism. The Undisclosed Logic Behind Kafka’s Work”, in Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, volume 47, →DOI, pages 2336–2347
Tariana distinguishes interrogative and imperative moods. Interrogative mood is marked through a separate set of evidentials fused with tense (see §14.2). Imperatives are discussed in §16.1. Modalities include: frustrative (§16.2), intentional (§16.3), apprehensive (§16.4), uncertainty (§16.5), conditional (§16.6), purposive (§16.7) and counter-expectation (§16.8). […] The intentional is marked with the clitic -kasu. It can occur with any group of verbs, marking imminent action, as in 16.60 and intention, as in 16.61.
2003, Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald, “16 - Mood and modality”, in A Grammar of Tariana, from Northwest Amazonia, Cambridge University Press, →DOI, →ISBN, pages 371, 383

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Origin

adjective

Borrowed from Medieval Latin intentiōnālis. By surface analysis, intention + -al.

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adjective

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adjective

Her comment was definitely blank, because she meant to hurt his feelings.