INTENDED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does intended mean? 

• INTENDED (adjective)
  The adjective INTENDED has 2 senses:

1. resulting from one's intentions

2. future; betrothed

  Familiarity information: INTENDED used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INTENDED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Resulting from one's intentions

Context example:

an intended insult

Similar:

conscious; witting (intentionally conceived)

calculated; deliberate; measured (carefully thought out in advance)

deliberate; intentional; knowing (characterized by conscious design or purpose)

well-intentioned; well-meaning; well-meant (marked by good intentions though often producing unfortunate results)

Also:

motivated (provided with a motive or given incentive for action)

planned (designed or carried out according to a plan)

premeditated (characterized by deliberate purpose and some degree of planning)

Attribute:

intentionality (expressive of intentions)

Antonym:

unintended (not deliberate)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Future; betrothed

Context example:

his intended bride

Similar:

attached; committed (associated in an exclusive sexual relationship)

 Context examples 

He and his wife had taken their intended drive, and were returning home.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

A category specifying that a bulk product is intended for use on animals and requires a prescription.

(Bulk Ingredient for Animal Prescription Compounding, NCI Thesaurus)

A category specifying that a bulk product is intended for use on humans and requires a prescription.

(Bulk Ingredient for Human Prescription Compounding, NCI Thesaurus)

Materials intended to educate the lay public in all aspects of cancer information

(Cancer Educational Materials, NCI Thesaurus)

"My things were indeed in shameful disorder," murmured Helen to me, in a low voice: "I intended to have arranged them, but I forgot."

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Correct activity that produces an effect, or that is intended to alter the course of a disease in a patient or population.

(Appropriate Treatment, NCI Thesaurus/ACC)

The regimen consists of chemotherapy with or without radiation and is intended to kill cancerous cells before the transplantation.

(Autologous Conditioning, NCI Thesaurus)

An establishment that collects, tests, processes, and stores blood and its components intended for transfusion or for further manufacture into products used for biological therapies.

(Blood Bank, NCI Thesaurus)

The intended recipient of a heart transplant.

(Candidate to Receive Cardiac Transplant, NCI Thesaurus/ACC)

A solid or semi-solid with a sweet taste and intended for oral administration.

(Candy Dosage Form, NCI Thesaurus)