Synonyms for intentional
ɪnˈtɛn ʃə nlin·ten·tion·al

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1. intentionaladjective

   Antonyms:
   unintentional

2. intentionaladjective

   Antonyms:
   unintentional

3. intentionaladjective

   Antonyms:
   unintentional

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1. intentional

   Synonyms:
   purposed, designed, deliberate, intended, done on purpose, contemplated, premeditated, studied

   Antonyms:
   undesigned, casual, unintentional, accidental, fortuitous

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1. intentional, knowingadjective

   characterized by conscious design or purpose

   "intentional damage"; "a knowing attempt to defraud"; "a willful waste of time"

   Synonyms:
   well-educated, well-read, knowledgeable, learned, wise(p), knowing, wise to(p), designed, lettered

   Antonyms:
   unintended

2. designed, intentionaladjective

   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"

   Synonyms:
   designed, knowing

   Antonyms:
   unintended

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1. intentionaladjective

   Synonyms:
   designed, intended, premeditated, contemplated, preconcerted, studied

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1. intentionaladjective

   Synonyms:
   deliberate, premeditated

   Antonyms:
   unintentional, inadvertent, accidental

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1. List of paraphrases for "intentional":

   deliberate, wilful, wilfully, willful, purposive, malicious, premeditated, purposeful, intentionally, intended, unintentional, voluntary

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How to use intentional in a sentence?

1. Adam Longson in a note:

   Intentional efforts to build or sell out government stockpiles that are not available to the market, nor included in demand figures, could help tighten the balance beyond headline implied stock changes, the worst of the price fall could now be behind us.

2. James Sasinowski:

   This was intentional. It was aggressive and he accelerated into a crowd of protesters, he could have waited for us to pass or he could have gone slowly. We would have allowed him to go through.

3. Major League Baseball:

   Everyone in baseball must use care to not engage in any behavior — whether intentional or not — that could be construed as minimizing the egregiousness of an act of domestic violence, we became aware of this incident through the Sports Illustrated article. The Astros have disputed Sports Illustrated's characterization of the incident.

4. Tom Rochon:

   In general, the college cannot prevent the use of hurtful language on campus. Such language, intentional or unintentional, exists in the world and will seep into our community, we can't promise that the college will never host a speaker who could say something racist, homophobic, misogynistic or otherwise disrespectful.

5. John Jackson:

   We are not willing to change our policies, there is a very intentional attempt to marginalize those who don’t accept the notions of sexual orientation and gender identity as the government has framed them.