Usually means: Purposeful aim guiding an action.
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We found 39 dictionaries that define the word Intent:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. intent: Merriam-Webster
  2. intent: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. intent: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. intent: Collins English Dictionary
  5. intent: Vocabulary.com
  6. Intent, intent, intent: Wordnik
  7. intent: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. intent: Wiktionary
  9. intent: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. intent: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. intent: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. intent: Dictionary.com
  13. intent (adj.), intent (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. intent: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Intent (Android), Intent (Military), Intent (law), Intent (military), Intent, The Intent (film), The Intent: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Intent: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. intent: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. intent: Rhymezone
  19. Intent: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. intent: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. intent: FreeDictionary.org
  22. intent: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. intent: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. intent: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. intent: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. intent: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  3. intent: Law.com Dictionary
  4. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  6. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  7. intent: Legal dictionary
  8. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. intent: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. National MCH Center for Child Death Review (No longer online)
  2. intent: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. intent: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. intent: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (intent)

▸ noun:  Something that is intended.
▸ noun:  (law) The state of someone’s mind at the time of committing an offence.
▸ adjective:  Firmly fixed or concentrated on something.
▸ adjective:  Engrossed.
▸ adjective:  Unwavering from a course of action.

Similar:
intention, purpose, purport, attentive, absorbed, design, engrossed, rapt, concentrated, spirit, more...

Opposite:
indifference, apathy, disinterest, neglect, unconcern

Types:
malicious, benevolent, negligent, reckless, fraudulent, intentional, unintentional, premeditated, more...

Phrases:
intent on, with intent, intent upon, Original intent, legislative intent, more...

Adjectives:
original, more, criminal, legislative, evil, true, specific, malicious, congressional, serious, clear

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Similar:
intention, purpose, purport, attentive, absorbed, design, engrossed, rapt, concentrated, spirit, more...

Opposite:
indifference, apathy, disinterest, neglect, unconcern

Types:
malicious, benevolent, negligent, reckless, fraudulent, intentional, unintentional, premeditated, more...

Phrases:
intent on, with intent, intent upon, Original intent, legislative intent, specific intent, criminal intent, strategic intent, hostile intent, authorial intent, donative intent, transferred intent, more...

Adjectives:
original, more, criminal, legislative, evil, true, specific, malicious, congressional, serious, clear

Colors:
    crimson,     scarlet,     burgundy,     ruby,     garnet, more...



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