intentional
adjective🔊/ɪnˈtenʃənl/
🔊/ɪnˈtenʃənl/
Word Family
- intend verb
- intended adjective (≠ unintended)
- intention noun
- intentional adjective (≠ unintentional)
- intentionally adverb (≠ unintentionally)
done deliberately 故意的；有意的；存心的 I'm sorry I left you off the list—it wasn't intentional. 很抱歉没把你列入名单，我不是有意的。 🔊🔊 an intentional act of cruelty 故意的残酷行为 It is difficult to prove whether their actions were negligent or intentional. 很难证明他们的行为是过失还是故意的。 She felt she was a victim of intentional discrimination. 她觉得自己遭到蓄意歧视。
Oxford Collocations DictionaryIntentional is used with these nouns:- act
- deception
- destruction
- …
Word Originmid 16th cent. (in the sense ‘existing only in intention’): from French intentionnel or medieval Latin intentionalis, from Latin intentio(n-), from intendere ‘intend, extend, direct’, from in- ‘towards’ + tendere ‘stretch, tend’.