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Definition/Meaning

(adjective)

Done on purpose; deliberate and conscious.

e.g. She made an intentional effort to reduce her carbon footprint.

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Similar Words

Aforethought

Conscious

Deliberate

Foreseeable

Intended

Premeditated

Premeditative

Prepense

Purposeful

Purposive

Self-inflicted

Set

Voluntary

Willed

Willful

Witting

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Opposite Words

Abrupt

Accidental

Accidentally

Ad-lib

Aimless

Automatic

Casual

Chance

Compulsory

Desultory

Extemporaneous

Extempore

Fluky

Forced

Fortuitous

Fortunate

Half-cocked

Haphazard

Happy

Heaven-sent

Hit-or-miss

Impetuous

Impromptu

Impulsive

Inadvertent

Incidental

Instinctive

Involuntary

Knee

Knee-jerk

Lucky

Mandatory

Mechanic

Mechanical

Necessary

Nondeliberate

Nonelective

Nonpurposive

Obligatory

Off-the-cuff

Offhand

Ordered

Providential

Purposeless

Random

Reactive

Required

Robotic

Serendipitous

Snap

Spontaneous

Spur-of-the-moment

Sudden

The

Unconsidered

Unforced

Unforeseeable

Unintended

Unintentional

Unplanned

Unpremeditated

Unprepared

Unprompted

Unrehearsed

Unscripted

Unstudied

Unwilling

Unwitting

Visceral

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Related Words

Advised

Calculated

Considered

Deliberate

Discretionary

Elective

Freewill

Measured

Optional

Premeditated

Premeditative

Prepense

Self-imposed

Studied

Thought-out

Thoughtful

Uncoerced

Unforced

Voluntary

Volunteer

Willing

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