intention

expectation, expectance, expectancy; anticipation, reckoning, calculation; foresight., contemplation, prospection, lookout; prospect, perspective, horizon, vista; destiny., suspense, waiting, abeyance; curiosity; anxious expectation, ardent expectation, eager expectation, breathless expectation, sanguine expectation; torment of Tantalus., hope; trust (belief); auspices (prediction); assurance, confidence, presumption, reliance.

expect; look for, look out for, look forward to; hope for; anticipate; have in prospect, have in contemplation; keep in view; contemplate, promise oneself; not wonder at, not wonder if., wait for, tarry for, lie in wait for, watch for, bargain for; keep a good lookout for, keep a sharp lookout for; await; stand at "attention," abide, bide one's time, watch., foresee; prepare for; forestall (be early); count upon (believe in); think likely (probability)., lead one to expect (predict); have in store for (destiny)., prick up one's ears, hold one's breath.

expectant; expecting; in expectation; on the watch (vigilant); open-eyed, open-mouthed; agape, gaping, all agog; on tenterhooks, on tiptoe, on the tiptoe of expectation; aux aguets; ready; curious; looking forward to., expected; long expected, foreseen; in prosepct; prospective; in one's eye, in one's view, in the horizon; impending (destiny).

on the watch; with breathless expectation; with bated breath; arrectis auribus.

idea, notion, conception, thought, apprehension, impression, perception, image, eidolon, sentiment, reflection, observation, consideration; abstract idea; archetype, formative notion; guiding conception, organizing conception; image in the mind, regulative principle., view (opinion); theory; conceit, fancy; phantasy (imagination)., point of view (aspect); field of view.

motive, springs of action, wellsprings of action., reason, ground, call, principle; by end, by purpose; mainspring, primum mobile, keystone; the why and the wherefore; pro and con, reason why; secret motive, arriere pensee; intention., inducement, consideration; attraction; loadstone; magnet, magnetism, magnetic force; allectation, allective; temptation, enticement, agacerie, allurement, witchery; bewitchment, bewitchery; charm; spell; fascination, blandishment, cajolery; seduction, seducement; honeyed words, voice of the tempter, song of the Sirens, forbidden fruit, golden apple., persuasibility, persuasibleness; attractability; impressibility, susceptibility; softness; persuasiveness, attractiveness; tantalization. influence, prompting, dictate, instance; impulse, impulsion; incitement, incitation; press, instigation; provocation (excitation of feeling); inspiration; persuasion, suasion; encouragement, advocacy; exhortation; advice; solicitation (request); lobbyism; pull., incentive, stimulus, spur, fillip, whip, goad, ankus, rowel, provocative, whet, dram., bribe, lure; decoy, decoy duck; bait, trail of a red herring; bribery and corruption; sop, sop for Cerberus., prompter, tempter; seducer, seductor; instigator, firebrand, incendiary; Siren, Circe; agent provocateur; lobbyist.

induce, move; draw, draw on; bring in its train, give an impulse to; inspire; put up to, prompt, call up; attract, beckon., stimulate (excite); spirit up, inspirit; rouse, arouse; animate, incite, provoke, instigate, set on, actuate; act upon, work upon, operate upon; encourage; pat on the back, pat on the shoulder, clap on the back, clap on the shoulder., influence, weigh with, bias, sway, incline, dispose, predispose, turn the scale, inoculate; lead by the nose; have influence with, have influence over, have influence upon, exercise influence with, exercise influence over, exercise influence upon; go round, come round one; turn the head, magnetize; lobby., persuade; prevail with, prevail upon; overcome, carry; bring round to one's senses, bring to one's senses; draw over, win over, gain over, come over, talk over; procure, enlist, engage; invite, court., tempt, seduce, overpersuade, entice, allure, captivate, fascinate, bewitch, carry away, charm, conciliate, wheedle, coax, lure; inveigle; tantalize; cajole (deceive)., tamper with, bribe, suborn, grease the palm, bait with a silver hook, gild the pill, make things pleasant, put a sop into the pan, throw a sop to, bait the hook., enforce, force; impel (push); propel; whip, lash, goad, spur, prick, urge; egg on, hound, hurry on; drag; exhort; advise; call upon, press (request) [more]; advocate., set an example, set the fashion; keep in countenance., be persuaded; yield to temptation, come round; concede (consent); obey a call; follow advice, follow the bent, follow the dictates of; act on principle.

impulsive, motive; suasive, suasory, persuasive, persuasory, hortative, hortatory; protreptical; inviting, tempting; suasive, suasory; seductive, attractive; fascinating (pleasing); provocative (exciting)., induced; disposed; persuadable (docile); spellbound; instinct with, smitten with, infatuated; inspired; by.

because, therefore (cause); from this motive, from that motive; for this reason, for that reason; for; by reason of, for the sake of, on account of; out of, from, as, forasmuch as., for all the world; on principle.

plan, scheme, design, project; proposal, proposition, suggestion; resolution, motion; precaution (provision); deep-laid plan (premeditated) [more];, system (order),[more]; organization (arrangement); germ (cause)., sketch, skeleton, outline, draught, draft, ebauche, brouillon; rough cast, rough draft, draught, draught copy; copy; proof, revise., forecast, program(me), prospectus; carte du pays; card; bill, protocol; order of the day, list of agenda; bill of fare (food); base of operations; platform, plank, slate [U. S.], ticket [U. S.]., role; policy (line of conduct)., contrivance, invention, expedient, receipt, nostrum, artifice, device; pipelaying [U.S.]; stratagem (cunning); trick (deception); alternative, loophole; shift (substitute); last shift (necessity)., measure, step; stroke, stroke of policy; master stroke; trump card, court card; cheval de bataille, great gun; coup, coup d'etat; clever stroke, bold stroke, good move, good hit, good stroke; bright thought, bright idea., intrigue, cabal, plot, conspiracy, complot, machination; underplot, counterplot., schemer, schemist, schematist; strategist, machinator; projector, artist, promoter, designer; conspirator; intrigant (cunning).

plan, scheme, design, frame, contrive, project, forecast, sketch; devise, invent (imagine); set one's wits to work [more]; spring a project; fall upon, hit upon; strike out, chalk out, cut out, lay out, map out; lay down a plan; shape out a course, mark out a course; predetermine; concert, preconcert, preestablish; prepare; hatch, hatch a plot, concoct; take steps, take measures., cast, recast, systematize, organize; arrange; digest, mature., plot; counterplot, countermine; dig a mine; lay a train; intrigue (cunning).

planned; strategic, strategical; planning; in course of preparation; under consideration; on the tapis, on the carpet, on the floor.

determination, will; iron will, unconquerable will; will of one's own, decision, resolution; backbone; clear grit, true grit, grit [U.S. & Can.]; sand, strength of mind, strength of will; resolve (intent); firmness (stability); energy, manliness, vigor; game, pluck; resoluteness (courage); zeal; aplomb; desperation; devotion, devotedness., mastery over self; self control, self command, self possession, self reliance, self government, self restraint, self conquest, self denial; moral courage, moral strength; perseverance; tenacity; obstinacy; bulldog; British lion.

have determination; know one's own mind; be resolved; make up one's mind, will, resolve, determine; decide (judgement); form a determination, come to a determination, come to a resolution, come to a resolve; conclude, fix, seal, determine once for all, bring to a crisis, drive matters to an extremity; take a decisive step (choice); take upon oneself (undertake)., devote oneself to, give oneself up to; throw away the scabbard, kick down the ladder, nail one's colors to the mast, set one's back against the wall, set one's teeth, put one's foot down, take one's stand; stand firm (stability); steel oneself; stand no nonsense, not listen to the voice of the charmer., buckle to; buckle oneself put one's shoulder to the wheel, lay one's shoulder to the wheel, set one's shoulder to the wheel; put one's heart into; run the gauntlet, make a dash at, take the bull by the horns; rush in medias res, plunge in medias res; go in for; insist upon, make a point of; set one's heart upon, set one's mind upon., stick at nothing, stop at nothing; make short work of (activity); not stick at trifles; go all lengths, go the limit, go the whole hog; persist (persevere); go through fire and water, ride the tiger, ride in the whirlwind and direct the storm.

resolved; determined; strong-willed, strong-minded; resolute (brave); self-possessed; decided, definitive, peremptory, tranchant; unhesitating, unflinching, unshrinking; firm, iron, gritty [U.S.], indomitable, game to the backbone; inexorable, relentless, not to be shaken, not to be put down; tenax propositi; inflexible (hard); obstinate; steady (persevering)., earnest, serious; set upon, bent upon, intent upon., steel against, proof against; in utrumque paratus.

resolutely; in earnest, in good earnest; seriously, joking apart, earnestly, heart and soul; on one's mettle; manfully, like a man, with a high hand; with a strong hand (exertion)., at any rate, at any risk, at any hazard at any price, at any cost, at any sacrifice; at all hazards, at all risks, at all events; a bis ou a blanc; cost what it may; coute; a tort et a travers; once for all; neck or nothing; rain or shine.

thought; exercitation of the intellect, exercise of the intellect; intellection; reflection, cogitation, consideration, meditation, study, lucubration, speculation, deliberation, pondering; head work, brain work; cerebration; deep reflection; close study, application (attention) [more]., abstract thought, abstraction contemplation, musing; brown study (inattention); reverie, Platonism; depth of thought, workings of the mind, thoughts, inmost thoughts; self-counsel self-communing, self-consultation; philosophy of the Absolute, philosophy of the Academy, philosophy of the Garden, philosophy of the lyceum, philosophy of the Porch., association of thought, succession of thought, flow of thought, train of thought, current of thought, association of ideas, succession of ideas, flow of ideas, train of ideas, current of ideas., afterthought, mature thought; reconsideration, second thoughts; retrospection (memory); excogitation; examination (inquiry) invention (imagination) [more]., thoughtfulness.

think, reflect, cogitate, excogitate, consider, deliberate; bestow thought upon, bestow consideration upon; speculate, contemplate, meditate, ponder, muse, dream, ruminate; brood over, con over; animadvert, study; bend mind, apply mind (attend) [more]; digest, discuss, hammer at, weigh, perpend; realize, appreciate; fancy (imagine); trow., take into consideration; take counsel (be advised); commune with oneself, bethink oneself; collect one's thoughts; revolve in the mind, turn over in the mind, run over in the mind; chew the cud upon, sleep upon; take counsel of one's pillow, advise with one's pillow., rack one's brains, ransack one's brains, crack one's brains, beat one's brains, cudgel one's brains; set one's brain to work, set one's wits to work., harbor an idea, entertain an idea, cherish an idea, nurture an idea [more]; take into one's head; bear in mind; reconsider., occur; present itself, suggest itself; come into one's head, get into one's head; strike one, flit across the view, come uppermost, run in one s head; enter the mind, pass in the mind, cross the mind, flash on the mind, flash across the mind, float in the mind, fasten itself on the mind, be uppermost in the mind, occupy the mind; have in one's mind., make an impression; sink into the mind, penetrate into the mind; engross the thoughts.

thinking; thoughtful, pensive, meditative, reflective, museful, wistful, contemplative, speculative, deliberative, studious, sedate, introspective, Platonic, philosophical., lost in thought (inattentive); deep musing (intent)., in the mind, under consideration.

all things considered.

will, volition, conation, velleity; liberum arbitrium; will and pleasure, free will; freedom; discretion; option (choice); voluntariness; spontaneity, spontaneousness; originality., pleasure, wish, mind; desire; frame of mind (inclination); intention; predetermination; self-control, determination (resolution) [more]; force of will.

will, list; see fit, think fit; determine (resolve); enjoin; settle (choose); volunteer., have a will of one's own; do what one chooses (freedom); have it all one's own way; have one's will, have one's own way., use one's discretion, exercise one's discretion; take upon oneself, take one's own course, take the law into one's own hands; do of one's own accord, do upon one's own authority; originate (cause).

voluntary, volitional, willful; free; optional; discretional, discretionary; volitient, volitive., minded (willing); prepense (predetermined); intended; autocratic; unbidden (bid [more]); spontaneous; original (casual); unconstrained.

voluntarily; at will, at pleasure; a volonte, a discretion; al piacere; ad libitum, ad arbitrium; as one thinks proper, as it seems good to; a beneplacito., of one's own accord, of one's own free will; proprio motu, suo motu, ex meromotu; out of one's own head; by choice; purposely (intentionally); deliberately.