intentadjective
uk/ɪnˈtent/us/ɪnˈtent/giving all your attention to something:
an intent stare
She had an intent look on her face.
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Cautious and vigilant
- askance
- attentive
- belt and braces idiom
- better safe than sorry idiom
- better the devil you know (than the devil you don't) idiom
- discreet
- due diligence
- gingerly
- guarded
- jealous
- narrowly
- once
- once bitten, twice shy idiom
- precise
- prudent
- sedulous
- slowly
- vigilance
- vigilant
- wary
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be intent on sth/doing sth
C2 to be determined to do or achieve something:
I've tried persuading her not to go but she's intent on it.
He seems intent on upsetting everyone in the room!
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Strong-willed
- a firm hand idiom
- adamant
- adamantine
- aggressive
- an iron hand/fist in a velvet glove idiom
- fury
- go-getter
- going
- gutsy
- hard-boiled
- importunate
- pigheaded
- purposeful
- pushy
- ravening
- recalcitrant
- redoubtable
- will not take no for an answer idiom
- willful
- with guns blazing idiom
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intently
adverb uk/ɪnˈtent.li/us/ɪnˈtent.li/
The child stared intently at her.
intentnoun [ U ]
uk/ɪnˈtent/us/ɪnˈtent/formal or specializedC2 the fact that you want and plan to do something:
I spent half the morning on the phone, which wasn't really my intent.
[ + to infinitive ] It was not his intent to hurt anyone.
She was charged with possessing weapons with intent to endanger life.
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Planning, expecting and arranging
- accidentally
- accidentally on purpose idiom
- advertent
- advisedly
- aim
- aim at sth
- calculate
- chart
- engineer
- I might have known idiom
- in the pipeline idiom
- intend
- intention
- intentional
- promise
- scheme
- scientific
- see sth coming idiom
- set sth up
- strategic
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Idiom(s)
to/for all intents and purposes