- meant; planned
- prospective; future: one's intended wife
Informal the person whom one has agreed to marry; fiancé or fiancée
adjective
- The definition of intended is something that has been planned, or is in the future.
An example of something intended is a job you plan on getting.
- Intented is defined as the person you have agreed to marry.
An example of an intended is a fiancé.
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adjective
- Deliberate; intentional: “He nodded again, so slight a motion that only one who knew him could read it as an intended gesture” ( Sabina Murray )
- Prospective; future: an intended trip abroad next month.
noun
InformalA person whom one intends to marry; a fiancé or fiancée: our daughter and her intended.
Related Forms:
- in·tend′ed·ly
adverb
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Antonyms
Noun
(plural intendeds)
- Fiancé or fiancée.
Verb
- simple past tense and past participle of intend
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Sentence Examples
- They were wrong, and she intended to prove it.
- He intended to take her as his mate, Rhyn.
- It was intended to encourage her, but it was more a distraction.
- Darkyn spoke as if he intended for her to remain that way, at least through the end of the deal.
- As if sensing what he intended to do, Kris took his arm.
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Words near intended in the dictionary
- intended
- intendancies
- intendancy
- intendant