Aiming Synonyms

Intend (something) to move towards a certain goal
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. directing
  2. targeting
  3. purposing
  4. proposing
  5. pointing
  6. intending
  7. planning
  8. minding
  9. yearning
  10. wishing
  11. wanting
  12. thirsting
  13. seeking
  14. designing
  15. plotting
  16. projecting
  17. pining
  18. endeavoring
  19. longing
  20. levelling
  21. striving
  22. hoping
  23. placing
  24. meaning
  25. essaying
  26. dreaming
  27. determining
  28. desiring
  29. coursing
  30. attempting
  31. aspiring
  32. addressing
  33. calculating
  34. contemplating
Have an ambitious plan or a lofty goal
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. proposing
  2. seeking
  3. purporting
  4. aspiring
  5. purposing

Words Related to Aiming

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Aiming Sentence Examples

  • On the other hand, Vieta was well skilled in most modern artifices, aiming at a simplification of equations by the substitution of new quantities having a certain connexion with the primitive unknown quantities.

  • Tyranny, aiming at the good of one.

  • Alex stood in the stirrups, aiming the rifle at the bear.

  • Strickland established a new system of education based on the principle of beginning from the bottom, by teaching to read and write in Maltese as the medium for assimilating, at a further stage, either English or Italian, one at a time, and aiming at imparting general knowledge in colloquial English.

  • Aiming at a currency to consist largely of specie, he caused the payment of these claims to be received and imported in specie as far as possible; and in 1836 he ordered land-agents to receive for land nothing but specie.

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