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intently

Syllables: in·tent·ly/ɪnˈtɛntli/

intently adverb: in an intent or focused manner.

Adverb

intently (comparative more intently, superlative most intently)

  1. In an intent or focused manner.
    • Her back was toward the jungle, and so she did not see the grasses part, or the savage face that peered from between. Little, bloodshot, close-set eyes scanned her intently, roving from time to time about the open beach for indications of the presence of others than herself.1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 193
    Synonyms:
    narrowly

intently meaning in Tamil, Urdu and Malayalam

intently in Tamil

முறைத்து

intently in Urdu

بغور, انہماک سے, جی لگا کر, محنت سے, سرگرمی سے

intently in Malayalam

keenly, attentively, closely
ശ്രദ്ധയോടെ, ഏകാഗ്രമായി, ശുഷ്കാന്തിയോടെ, സർവ്വത്മനാ, താത്പര്യമായി, ജാഗരൂകമായി

Examples of intently in a sentence

  • Linda eyed Teddy intently, he was still glauming his mind for something, anything.
  • We were all focused intently on the triangular conference call speaker in the middle of the table.
  • He paused, looking at me intently, his black-flecked eyes scanning my face in quick saccades.

All 18 example sentences with intently

Synonyms of intently

Forms of intently

comparativemore intently
superlativemost intently

Origin of intently

From intent + -ly.

Questions about intently

What does intently mean?
Intently means in an intent or focused manner.
What is intently in Tamil?
Intently in Tamil is முறைத்து. See Intently meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is intently?
Intently is an adverb.
How do you pronounce intently?
Intently is pronounced /ɪnˈtɛntli/.

Words near intently in the dictionary

  1. intentionlessness
  2. intentions
  3. intentive
  4. intentively
  5. intentiveness
  6. intently
  7. intentness
  8. intentnesses
  9. intents
  10. inteqal
  11. inter

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: intently (page history and authors); intently (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); intently (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); intently (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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