meant
Did on purpose
Meant is the past tense and past participle of mean.
Something meant for a purpose was intended for it: This gift is meant for you.
To be meant to be suggests destiny or inevitability: We were meant to be together.
When someone says I meant what I said, they're affirming sincerity.
What's that meant to mean? challenges someone's implication.
Showed or suggested
- denotedIndicated or represented
- representedStood in for another
- symbolizedStood for abstractly
- conveyedTransferred or expressed
expressed · implied · suggested · communicated · referred · stood for · designated · betokened
Done on purpose
- deliberateConsciously chosen, not accidental
- purposefulDone with intention
- plannedDecided on beforehand
- designedCreated according to plan
conscious · calculated · premeditated · willful · voluntary · volitional · witting · considered
Determined by destiny
- predestinedDecided in advance
- foreordainedDecided in advance unavoidably
- boundSecured or destined
- doomedDestined for destruction
ordained · inevitable · predetermined · kismet · providence · supposed to · written in the stars · in the cards
State of mattering
- significanceQuality of mattering
- valueImportance or price
- consequenceResult of an action
- weightMeasure of heaviness
relevance · counted · substantial · impactful · noteworthy · momentous · carried weight
indicated
Showed or suggested
- denotedIndicated or represented
- representedStood in for another
- symbolizedStood for abstractly
conveyed · expressed · implied · suggested · communicated · referred · stood for · designated · betokened · spelled out
intentional
Done on purpose
- deliberateConsciously chosen, not accidental
- purposefulDone with intention
- plannedDecided on beforehand
designed · conscious · calculated · premeditated · willful · voluntary · volitional · witting · considered · strategic
fated
Determined by destiny
- predestinedDecided in advance
- foreordainedDecided in advance unavoidably
- boundSecured or destined
doomed · ordained · inevitable · predetermined · kismet · providence · supposed to · written in the stars · in the cards
importance
State of mattering
- significanceQuality of mattering
- valueImportance or price
- consequenceResult of an action
weight · relevance · counted · substantial · impactful · noteworthy · momentous · carried weight
meantaccidental
Occurring by chance
unintentional · unintended · inadvertent · unmeant · unplanned
meantmeaningless
Lacking significance or purpose
pointless · purposeless · senseless · insignificant · empty
- I meanClarification phrase
- what do you meanDemand for clarification
- in the meantimeDuring intervening time
- meant to bePredetermined by fate
- I mean itAssertion of sincerity
- meant to
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