Aims Synonyms and Antonyms

Move into a desired direction of discourse
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. directs
  2. brackets
  3. gets
  4. lays
  5. turns
  6. beams
  7. points
  8. trains
  9. sets
  10. steers
  11. levels
  12. heads
  13. drives
  14. takes
  15. casts
Intend (something) to move towards a certain goal
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. targets
  2. purposes
  3. proposes
  4. directs
  5. points
  6. intends
  7. plans
  8. minds
  9. yearns
  10. wishes
  11. wants
  12. thirsts
  13. seeks
  14. designs
  15. plots
  16. projects
  17. pines
  18. endeavors
  19. purports
  20. longs
  21. levels
  22. strives
  23. hopes
  24. places
  25. means
  26. essays
  27. dreams
  28. determines
  29. desires
  30. courses
  31. attempts
  32. aspires
  33. contemplates
  34. addresses
Have an ambitious plan or a lofty goal
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. seeks
  2. aspires
The thread or current of thought uniting or occurring in all the elements of a text or discourse
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. thrusts
  2. tendencies
  3. purports
  4. drifts
  5. burdens
  6. tenors
  7. substances
  8. intents
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Words Related to Aims

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.

Related:

  1. try
  2. starts
  3. aim

Aims Sentence Examples

  • While therefore Cromwell's administration became in practice little different from that of Strafford, the aims and ideals of the two statesmen had nothing in common.

  • What, however, with the idealists was an object of thought alone, the absolute, is to Lotze only inadequately definable in rigorous philosophical language; the aspirations of the human heart, the contents of our feelings and desires, the aims of art and the tenets of religious faith must be grasped in order to fill the empty idea of the absolute with meaning.

  • The terms last named indicate the nature of the aims which Napoleon had in view at Tilsit.

  • These different tasks, which philosophy had to fulfil, mark pretty accurately the aims of Lotze's writings, and the order in which they were published.

  • Man's life here is incomplete, and the more lofty his aims, the more worthy his labours, the more incomplete will it appear to be.

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