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intended

intended

6.5
Engaged to be married
  • adjective
  • /ɪnˈtɛndɪd/
  • Archaic
translation icon : prometido
  • She introduced her intended to her family during the holiday dinner.

Examples

  • He often spoke about his intended and how excited he was to start their life together.

  • Look, humans are not intended to decline.

  • Only you and your intended recipients can read your emails.

  • I like to have something on Ollie's always like, you know, doing his thing, you know, as as God intended him to be.

  • After the proposal, everyone celebrated the couple and their plans for the future with the intended wedding date in mind.

Synonyms

engaged
vsintended
1.4

Promised to marry someone

refers specifically to a woman in that marital promise state

Antonyms

single
733 1.0

Not married and not in a romantic relationship

unengaged
4.8

Not promised to marry someone

Idioms

as God intended
8.3

In the simple natural way people think God wants things to be

How Formal

betrothed
  • Archaic
7 7.8
intended
  • Archaic
6.5
fiance
1 3.0

Surface Forms

intended positive

Morphology

intended = intend (semi-transparent) = intend + ed

Formally formed from 'intend' + -ed, but the nominal use 'one's intended' meaning 'betrothed' is an idiomatic/specialized extension not fully predictable from the verb alone.

Etymology

The word intended also came to mean a person's future husband or wife because it originally meant someone 'meant for' you, from in- 'towards' and tendere 'to aim'. That's why an intended is the person someone has chosen or planned to marry.