adv
Meaning 1
In an intentional manner; on purpose.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: knowingly
Antonyms: unintentionally
Standard Lemma guide
intentionally
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
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Pronunciation
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/ɪnˈtɛn(t)ʃənəli/
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CMU ARPABET: IH2 N T EH1 N SH AH0 N AH0 L IY0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
adverb
Meaning 2
with intention; in an intentional manner
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- he used that word intentionally
- I did this by choice
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: deliberately, designedly, on purpose, purposely, advisedly, by choice, by design
Antonyms: unintentionally
History
Etymology
Etymology tree English intentional Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der. Proto-Germanic *līkąder. Proto-Germanic *-līkaz Proto-Germanic *-ê Proto-Germanic *-līkê Proto-West Germanic *-līkē Old English -līċe Middle English -ly English -ly English intentionally From intentional + -ly.
Across languages
Translations
60 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Arabic: عَمْدًا (ʕamdan) — intentional manner, on purpose
- Armenian: դիտմամբ (ditmamb) — intentional manner, on purpose
- Catalan: intencionadament — intentional manner, on purpose
- Catalan: intencionalment — intentional manner, on purpose
- Chinese Mandarin: 故意 (gùyì) — intentional manner, on purpose
- Chinese Mandarin: 蓄意 (xùyì) — intentional manner, on purpose
- Chinese Mandarin: 有意 (yǒuyì) — intentional manner, on purpose
- Chinese Mandarin: 刻意 (kèyì) — intentional manner, on purpose
- Chinese Mandarin: 存心 (cúnxīn) — intentional manner, on purpose
- Czech: záměrně — intentional manner, on purpose
- Esperanto: intence — intentional manner, on purpose
- Finnish: tahallaan — intentional manner, on purpose
- Finnish: tahallisesti — intentional manner, on purpose
- French: intentionnellement — intentional manner, on purpose
- French: à dessein — intentional manner, on purpose
- Galician: intencionadamente — intentional manner, on purpose
- Galician: intencionalmente — intentional manner, on purpose
- German: absichtlich — intentional manner, on purpose
- German: vorsätzlich — intentional manner, on purpose
- German: beabsichtigt — intentional manner, on purpose
- German: bewusst — intentional manner, on purpose
- Greek: επίτηδες (epítides) — intentional manner, on purpose
- Greek: εκούσια (ekoúsia) — intentional manner, on purpose
- Greek: ηθελημένα (itheliména) — intentional manner, on purpose
- Greek: σκόπιμα (skópima) — intentional manner, on purpose
- Hebrew: ביד רמה (b'yad ramah) — intentional manner, on purpose
- Hungarian: szándékosan — intentional manner, on purpose
- Hungarian: szántszándékkal — intentional manner, on purpose
- Hungarian: készakarva — intentional manner, on purpose
- Japanese: 態と (wazato) — intentional manner, on purpose
- Japanese: 意図的に (itoteki ni) — intentional manner, on purpose
- Kazakh: әдейі (ädeiı) — intentional manner, on purpose
- Central Kurdish: بەقەستی (beqestî) — intentional manner, on purpose
- Central Kurdish: بە ئانقەس (be anqes) — intentional manner, on purpose
- Latin: consiliō — intentional manner, on purpose
- Malayalam: മനഃപൂർവ്വം (manaḥpūṟvvaṁ) — intentional manner, on purpose
- Polish: celowo — intentional manner, on purpose
- Polish: rozmyślnie — intentional manner, on purpose
- Polish: umyślnie — intentional manner, on purpose
- Portuguese: intencionalmente — intentional manner, on purpose
- Romanian: intenționat — intentional manner, on purpose
- Romanian: premeditat — intentional manner, on purpose
- Romanian: deliberat — intentional manner, on purpose
- Romanian: dinadins — intentional manner, on purpose
- Romanian: înadins — intentional manner, on purpose
- Russian: наме́ренно (namérenno) — intentional manner, on purpose
- Russian: наро́чно (naróšno) — intentional manner, on purpose
- Russian: преднаме́ренно (prednamérenno) — intentional manner, on purpose
- Slovene: namẹ̄noma — intentional manner, on purpose
- Spanish: intencionalmente — intentional manner, on purpose
- Spanish: intencionadamente — intentional manner, on purpose
- Swedish: med flit — intentional manner, on purpose
- Swedish: avsiktligt — intentional manner, on purpose
- Telugu: కావాలని (kāvālani) — intentional manner, on purpose
- Turkish: kasten — intentional manner, on purpose
- Turkish: kasıtlıca — intentional manner, on purpose
- Turkish: kasıtlı olarak — intentional manner, on purpose
- Ottoman Turkish: مخصوص (mahsus) — intentional manner, on purpose
- Vietnamese: cố ý — intentional manner, on purpose
- Vietnamese: cố tình — intentional manner, on purpose
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