intentive

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle English ententif, borrowed from Old French ententif, from Late Latin intentīvus (“intensive”), from Latin intendō (“I intend, I attend”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɪnˈtɛntɪv/
  • Rhymes: -ɛntɪv

Adjective

intentive (comparative more intentive, superlative most intentive)

  1. Paying attention; attentive, heedful.
  2. Intent (of the mind, thoughts etc.).
    • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, V.9:
      To which whilest she lent her intentive mind, / He suddenly his net upon her threw […].
  3. (grammar) Expressing intent.

See also

Latin

Adjective

intentīve

  1. vocative masculine singular of intentīvus
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