All intendment synonyms
inΒ·tendΒ·ment
I i noun intendment
- proposal β the act of offering or suggesting something for acceptance, adoption, or performance.
- bourn β a destination; goal
- nitty-gritty β the essential substance or details of a matter; basics; crux: Let's skip the chitchat and get down to the nitty-gritty.
- use β to employ for some purpose; put into service; make use of: to use a knife.
- worth β good or important enough to justify (what is specified): advice worth taking; a place worth visiting.
- good β Graph-Oriented Object Database
- nuance β a subtle difference or distinction in expression, meaning, response, etc.
- advantage β An advantage is something that puts you in a better position than other people.
- short β having little length; not long.
- definition β A definition is a statement giving the meaning of a word or expression, especially in a dictionary.
- force β physical power or strength possessed by a living being: He used all his force in opening the window.
- kicker β a person or thing that kicks.
- conception β A conception of something is an idea that you have of it in your mind.
- viewpoint β a place affording a view of something; position of observation: to sketch a river from the viewpoint of a bluff.
- inkling β a slight suggestion or indication; hint; intimation: They hadn't given us an inkling of what was going to happen.
- rationale β the fundamental reason or reasons serving to account for something.
- anti-rational β agreeable to reason; reasonable; sensible: a rational plan for economic development.
- rationality β the state or quality of being rational.
- brainchild β Someone's brainchild is an idea or invention that they have thought up or created.
- deliberation β Deliberation is the long and careful consideration of a subject.
- point β a fraction whose denominator is some power of 10, usually indicated by a dot (decimal point or point) written before the numerator: as 0.4 = 4/10; 0.126 = 126/1000.
- machination β an act or instance of machinating.
- scene β the place where some action or event occurs: He returned to the scene of the murder.
- trick β a crafty or underhanded device, maneuver, stratagem, or the like, intended to deceive or cheat; artifice; ruse; wile.
- conspiracy β Conspiracy is the secret planning by a group of people to do something illegal.
- thought β Informal. the act or a period of thinking: I want to sit down and give it a good think.
- pitch β to smear or cover with pitch.
- gimmick β an ingenious or novel device, scheme, or stratagem, especially one designed to attract attention or increase appeal.
- volition β the act of willing, choosing, or resolving; exercise of willing: She left of her own volition.
- plot β a secret plan or scheme to accomplish some purpose, especially a hostile, unlawful, or evil purpose: a plot to overthrow the government.
- goal β the result or achievement toward which effort is directed; aim; end.
- thinking β of or relating to thinking or thought.
- purport β to present, especially deliberately, the appearance of being; profess or claim, often falsely: a document purporting to be official.
- objective β something that one's efforts or actions are intended to attain or accomplish; purpose; goal; target: the objective of a military attack; the objective of a fund-raising drive.
- schema β a diagram, plan, or scheme. Synonyms: outline, framework, model.
- play β a dramatic composition or piece; drama.
- object β anything that is visible or tangible and is relatively stable in form.
- aim β If you aim for something or aim to do something, you plan or hope to achieve it.
- meaning β what is intended to be, or actually is, expressed or indicated; signification; import: the three meanings of a word.
- purpose β the reason for which something exists or is done, made, used, etc.
- child β A child is a human being who is not yet an adult.
- angle β An angle is the difference in direction between two lines or surfaces. Angles are measured in degrees.
- reflection β the act of reflecting, as in casting back a light or heat, mirroring, or giving back or showing an image; the state of being reflected in this way.
- animus β If a person has an animus against someone, they have a strong feeling of dislike for them, even when there is no good reason for it.
- target β an object, usually marked with concentric circles, to be aimed at in shooting practice or contests.
- scenario β an outline of the plot of a dramatic work, giving particulars as to the scenes, characters, situations, etc.
- undertaking β the act of a person who undertakes any task or responsibility.
- notion β a general understanding; vague or imperfect conception or idea of something: a notion of how something should be done.
- will β Wallace, 1875β1959, U.S. journalist and humorist.
- proposition β the act of offering or suggesting something to be considered, accepted, adopted, or done.