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in-tent
adjective as in industrious
adjective as in intent
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adjective as in interested
Strongest matches
Strong matches
adjective as in keen
adjective as in absorbed
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adjective as in attentive
adjective as in preoccupied
Strongest matches
adjective as in purposeful
Strongest matches
adjective as in rapt
Strongest matches
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- absent
- absent-minded
- abstracted
- beguiled
- bewitched
- blissful
- busy
- captivated
- carried away
- caught up in
- charmed
- daydreaming
- deep
- dreaming
- employed
- enamored
- engaged
- engrossed
- enraptured
- entranced
- gripped
- happy
- held
- hung up
- hypnotized
- immersed
- intent
- involved
- lost
- oblivious
- occupied
- overwhelmed
- preoccupied
- ravished
- taken
- transported
- unconscious
- wrapped
- wrapped-up
adjective as in serious
Strongest matches
Strong match
adjective as in set
Strong matches
adjective as in steadfast
Strongest matches
adjective as in thoughtful
Strongest matches
adjective as in undivided
Strongest matches
adjective as in bent
adjective as in bent on
adjective as in bound
Strongest matches
Strong matches
adjective as in businesslike
Strongest matches
adjective as in bound and determined
adjective as in determinate
adjective as in ruminative
Weak matches
- absorbed
- analytical
- attentive
- brainy
- calculating
- cerebral
- cogitative
- contemplative
- deep
- deliberative
- discerning
- earnest
- engrossed
- excogitative
- farsighted
- grave
- in a brown study
- intellectual
- intent
- keen
- levelheaded
- logical
- lost in thought
- meditative
- melancholy
- museful
- musing
- pensive
- philosophic
- pondering
- preoccupied
- rapt
- rational
- reasonable
- reasoning
- reflecting
- reflective
- retrospective
- serious
- sober
- speculative
- studious
- subjective
- thinking
- wise
- wistful
adjective as in sobersided
Weak matches
- austere
- bound
- bound and determined
- businesslike
- cold sober
- contemplative
- deadpan
- deliberate
- determined
- downbeat
- earnest
- funereal
- genuine
- go for broke
- grave
- grim
- honest
- in earnest
- intent
- long-faced
- meditative
- no-nonsense
- pensive
- pokerfaced
- reflective
- resolute
- resolved
- sedate
- set
- severe
- sincere
- sober
- solemn
- staid
- steady
- stern
- thoughtful
- unhumorous
- unsmiling
- weighty
adjective as in thirsting
Weak matches
adjective as in contemplative
Strongest matches
adjective as in decided
adjective as in decisive
adjective as in deep
adjective as in determined
Strongest matches
adjective as in eager
adjective as in earnest
adjective as in engaged
adjective as in engrossed
Strongest matches
adjective as in enthusiastic
Strongest matches
adjective as in ambitious
Strongest matches
Weak matches
- anxious
- ardent
- aspiring
- avid
- ball of fire
- bent upon
- climbing
- come on
- come on strong
- designing
- desirous
- driving
- eager
- eager beaver
- enterprising
- fireball
- get up and go
- go-getter
- goal-oriented
- hard ball
- high-reaching
- hopeful
- hungry
- industrious
- inspired
- intent
- longing
- power-loving
- purposeful
- pushing
- pushy
- self-starting
- sharp
- soaring
- striving
- thirsty
- vaulting
- zealous
adjective as in firm
Strongest matches
Strong matches
adjective as in anxious
adjective as in hell-bent
adjective as in immersed
noun as in intent/intention
noun as in meaning
noun as in motive
noun as in object
noun as in plan
Strongest matches
Strong matches
Weak matches
noun as in point
noun as in purport
noun as in purpose
Strongest matches
Strong matches
noun as in resolution
Strongest matches
Strong matches
- aim
- boldness
- constancy
- courage
- dauntlessness
- declaration
- dedication
- doggedness
- earnestness
- energy
- firmness
- fortitude
- guts
- heart
- immovability
- intent
- intention
- judgment
- mettle
- moxie
- obstinacy
- perseverance
- pluck
- purpose
- purposefulness
- relentlessness
- resoluteness
- resolve
- sincerity
- spirit
- spunk
- staunchness
- steadfastness
- stubbornness
- tenacity
- willpower
noun as in spirit
noun as in acceptation
Weak match
noun as in industriousness
noun as in sedulousness
noun as in significancy
Weak matches
- acceptation
- allusion
- bearing
- bottom line
- connotation
- content
- context
- definition
- denotation
- drift
- effect
- essence
- explanation
- force
- gist
- heart
- hint
- implication
- import
- intent
- interpretation
- intimation
- meat
- message
- name of the game
- nature of beast
- nitty-gritty
- nuance
- nuts and bolts
- pith
- point
- purport
- sense
- significance
- signification
- spirit
- stuff
- subject
- subject matter
- substance
- suggestion
- symbolization
- tenor
- thrust
- understanding
- upshot
- use
- value
- worth
noun as in signification
Strong matches
- acceptation
- allusion
- bearing
- connotation
- content
- context
- definition
- denotation
- drift
- effect
- essence
- explanation
- force
- gist
- heart
- hint
- implication
- import
- intent
- interpretation
- intimation
- meat
- message
- nitty-gritty
- nuance
- pith
- point
- purport
- sense
- significance
- spirit
- stuff
- subject
- substance
- suggestion
- symbolization
- tenor
- thrust
- understanding
- upshot
- use
- value
- worth
noun as in destiny
Strongest matches
Strong matches
noun as in diligence
noun as in aim
noun as in end
noun as in ambition
noun as in goal
noun as in import
adjective as in industrious
adjective as in intent
Strongest matches
adjective as in interested
Strongest matches
Strong matches
adjective as in keen
adjective as in absorbed
Strongest matches
adjective as in attentive
adjective as in preoccupied
Strongest matches
adjective as in purposeful
Strongest matches
adjective as in rapt
Strongest matches
Weak matches
- absent
- absent-minded
- abstracted
- beguiled
- bewitched
- blissful
- busy
- captivated
- carried away
- caught up in
- charmed
- daydreaming
- deep
- dreaming
- employed
- enamored
- engaged
- engrossed
- enraptured
- entranced
- gripped
- happy
- held
- hung up
- hypnotized
- immersed
- intent
- involved
- lost
- oblivious
- occupied
- overwhelmed
- preoccupied
- ravished
- taken
- transported
- unconscious
- wrapped
- wrapped-up
adjective as in serious
Strongest matches
Strong match
adjective as in set
Strong matches
adjective as in steadfast
Strongest matches
adjective as in thoughtful
Strongest matches
adjective as in undivided
Strongest matches
adjective as in bent
adjective as in bent on
adjective as in bound
Strongest matches
Strong matches
adjective as in businesslike
Strongest matches
adjective as in bound and determined
adjective as in determinate
adjective as in ruminative
Weak matches
- absorbed
- analytical
- attentive
- brainy
- calculating
- cerebral
- cogitative
- contemplative
- deep
- deliberative
- discerning
- earnest
- engrossed
- excogitative
- farsighted
- grave
- in a brown study
- intellectual
- intent
- keen
- levelheaded
- logical
- lost in thought
- meditative
- melancholy
- museful
- musing
- pensive
- philosophic
- pondering
- preoccupied
- rapt
- rational
- reasonable
- reasoning
- reflecting
- reflective
- retrospective
- serious
- sober
- speculative
- studious
- subjective
- thinking
- wise
- wistful
adjective as in sobersided
Weak matches
- austere
- bound
- bound and determined
- businesslike
- cold sober
- contemplative
- deadpan
- deliberate
- determined
- downbeat
- earnest
- funereal
- genuine
- go for broke
- grave
- grim
- honest
- in earnest
- intent
- long-faced
- meditative
- no-nonsense
- pensive
- pokerfaced
- reflective
- resolute
- resolved
- sedate
- set
- severe
- sincere
- sober
- solemn
- staid
- steady
- stern
- thoughtful
- unhumorous
- unsmiling
- weighty
adjective as in thirsting
Weak matches
adjective as in contemplative
Strongest matches
adjective as in decided
adjective as in decisive
adjective as in deep
adjective as in determined
Strongest matches
adjective as in eager
adjective as in earnest
adjective as in engaged
adjective as in engrossed
Strongest matches
adjective as in enthusiastic
Strongest matches
adjective as in ambitious
Strongest matches
Weak matches
- anxious
- ardent
- aspiring
- avid
- ball of fire
- bent upon
- climbing
- come on
- come on strong
- designing
- desirous
- driving
- eager
- eager beaver
- enterprising
- fireball
- get up and go
- go-getter
- goal-oriented
- hard ball
- high-reaching
- hopeful
- hungry
- industrious
- inspired
- intent
- longing
- power-loving
- purposeful
- pushing
- pushy
- self-starting
- sharp
- soaring
- striving
- thirsty
- vaulting
- zealous
adjective as in firm
Strongest matches
Strong matches
adjective as in anxious
adjective as in hell-bent
adjective as in immersed
noun as in intent/intention
noun as in meaning
noun as in motive
noun as in object
noun as in plan
Strongest matches
Strong matches
Weak matches
noun as in point
noun as in purport
noun as in purpose
Strongest matches
Strong matches
noun as in resolution
Strongest matches
Strong matches
- aim
- boldness
- constancy
- courage
- dauntlessness
- declaration
- dedication
- doggedness
- earnestness
- energy
- firmness
- fortitude
- guts
- heart
- immovability
- intent
- intention
- judgment
- mettle
- moxie
- obstinacy
- perseverance
- pluck
- purpose
- purposefulness
- relentlessness
- resoluteness
- resolve
- sincerity
- spirit
- spunk
- staunchness
- steadfastness
- stubbornness
- tenacity
- willpower
noun as in spirit
noun as in acceptation
Weak match
noun as in industriousness
noun as in sedulousness
noun as in significancy
Weak matches
- acceptation
- allusion
- bearing
- bottom line
- connotation
- content
- context
- definition
- denotation
- drift
- effect
- essence
- explanation
- force
- gist
- heart
- hint
- implication
- import
- intent
- interpretation
- intimation
- meat
- message
- name of the game
- nature of beast
- nitty-gritty
- nuance
- nuts and bolts
- pith
- point
- purport
- sense
- significance
- signification
- spirit
- stuff
- subject
- subject matter
- substance
- suggestion
- symbolization
- tenor
- thrust
- understanding
- upshot
- use
- value
- worth
noun as in signification
Strong matches
- acceptation
- allusion
- bearing
- connotation
- content
- context
- definition
- denotation
- drift
- effect
- essence
- explanation
- force
- gist
- heart
- hint
- implication
- import
- intent
- interpretation
- intimation
- meat
- message
- nitty-gritty
- nuance
- pith
- point
- purport
- sense
- significance
- spirit
- stuff
- subject
- substance
- suggestion
- symbolization
- tenor
- thrust
- understanding
- upshot
- use
- value
- worth
noun as in destiny
Strongest matches
Strong matches
noun as in diligence
noun as in aim
noun as in end
noun as in ambition
noun as in goal
noun as in import
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Intent, in-tent′, adj. having the mind bent on: fixed with close attention: diligently applied.
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On this page you'll find 2348 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to in-tent, such as: conscientious, diligent, energetic, productive, active, and assiduous.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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