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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
intentional
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ an intentional violation of the tax laws
▪ If their advertisements are shocking, this is entirely intentional.
▪ The damage was not intentional but I was still annoyed.
▪ The jury has to decide whether the killing was an intentional act.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Intentional

Intentional \In*ten"tion*al\, a. [Cf. F. intentionnel.] Done by intention or design; intended; designed; as, the act was intentional, not accidental. Opposite of unintentional or unintended.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
intentional

1520s, from Medieval Latin intentionalis, from intentionem (see intention). Intentional fallacy recorded from 1946. Related: Intentionality.

Wiktionary
intentional

a. 1 intend or planned; done deliberately or voluntarily. 2 (context legal English) Done with intent.

WordNet
intentional
  1. adj. by conscious design or purpose; "intentional damage"; "a knowing attempt to defraud"; "a willful waste of time" [syn: deliberate, knowing, willful, wilful]

  2. 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" [syn: designed] [ant: undesigned]

  3. done by design; "the insult was intentional"; "willful disobedience" [syn: willful, wilful]

Wikipedia

Usage examples of "intentional".

There are tens of thousands of people already in the United States who are living in intentional communities and permaculture projects and bioregional groups are wide-spread.

Morlan concluded that many bones and antlers exhibited signs of intentional human work executed before the bones had become fossilized.

Earth whose exterior lacks the form of that neocortexsuch as a plant, a lizard, a horsewill probably lack an interior that contains intentional symbolic logic.

This is usually composed of prints so badly mutilated, or so mutilated about the cores and deltas, that intentional mutilation is suspected.

There is an intentional focus on biochemicals, gengineering, Pharmaceuticals, and related products.

Such meanings cannot be reduced to the identification of causal connections and require accounts making use of intentional language rather than simply descriptive language.

While some neuroscientists are seeking the neural correlates of conscious and unconscious mental states in humans, others are trying to identify the structural conditions over the course of evolution under which the first intentional capacities in living organisms could emerge.

Or is such basic cognition nonconscious, but nevertheless intentional, in the sense that the organism has some kind of nonexperiential knowledge of incoming stimuli and motor skills?

Thus, we are only retrospectively aware of intentional states of consciousness, but we are immediately aware of nonintentional mental phenomena.

Commentary In the quotations drawn from A Separate Reality, the mood that the shamans of ancient Mexico affixed to all their intentional endeavors begins to show with remarkable clarity.

I thought it was a delightful forfeit, for I could easily see that she had chosen it with intentional mischief.

Zenarchists want Permanent Universal Cultural Autonomy by means of Self-Selecting Intentional Neighborhoods made possible by communitarian computer matching services.

It never seemed intentional at that time but, in retrospect, Reeve wasn't so sure that the Hrrubans hadn't discovered an exceptionally deft evasive trick.

Molloy continued to take her association with Revelstoke as an intentional affront offered to his own powers as a teacher by Domdaniel, and he worked her very hard on exercises designed to develop those two characteristics of the voice which he called, in his old-fashioned nomenclature, "the florid and the pathetic", and which Sir Benedict preferred to call "agility and legato".

He reminded himself again that this was not intentional child neglect.