1. An anticipated outcome that is intended or that guides your planned actions
   "his intent was to provide a new translation";
   - purpose, intention, aim, design
    
2. The intended meaning of a communication
   "The intent of the law was to protect consumers, not to burden businesses";
   - purport, spirit

1. Giving or marked by complete attention to
   "so intent on this fantastic … narrative that she hardly stirred";
   - captive, absorbed, engrossed, enwrapped, wrapped, rapt
    
2. Characterized by great determination
   "a struggle against an intent enemy";
   - determined

Derived forms: intents

See also: attentive, resolute

Type of: end, goal, import, meaning, significance, signification

Encyclopedia: Intent