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objectives - 20 thesaurus results
| Main Entry: | objective |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | aim, goal |
| Synonyms: | ambition, aspiration, design, end, intention, mark, mission, object, purpose, target, zero*, end in view, ground zero |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | platform |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | political stance, promises |
| Synonyms: | manifesto, party line*, plank, policy, principle, program, stump*, objectives, soapbox, tenets |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | aim |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | goal |
| Synonyms: | ambition, aspiration, course, design, desire, direction, end, intent, intention, mark, object, objective, plan, purpose, scheme, target, wish, desideratum, where one is heading |
| Antonyms: | avoidance, neglect, thoughtlessness, aimlessness, purposelessness |
| Main Entry: | ambition |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | something desired |
| Synonyms: | aim, aspiration, desire, dream, end, enterprise, goal, hope, intent, mark, objective, purpose, target, wish |
| Main Entry: | aspiration |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | goal, hope |
| Synonyms: | aim, ambition, craving, desire, direction, dream, eagerness, endeavor, hankering, inclination, longing, object, objective, passion, pursuit, push, right stuff*, urge, vocation, wish, work, yearning, ambitiousness, fire in the belly |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | cause |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | belief; undertaking for belief |
| Synonyms: | attempt, conviction, creed, enterprise, faith, goal, ideal, intention, movement, object, objective, plan, purpose, principles |
| Main Entry: | design |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | intention |
| Synonyms: | action, aim, angle, animus, big picture*, brainchild, child*, conation, conspiracy, deliberation, end, enterprise, game plan*, gimmick, goal, intendment, intrigue, lay of the land, machination, meaning, notion, object, objective, picture, pitch, plan, play, plot, point, project, proposition, purport, purpose, recipe, reflection, scenario, scene, schema, scheme, setup, story, target, thinking, thought, trick, undertaking, view, volition, what's cooking, will |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | destination |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | goal; place one wants to go |
| Synonyms: | aim, ambition, design, end, harbor, haven, intention, journey's end, landing-place, object, objective, purpose, resting-place, station, stop, target, terminal, terminus |
| Antonyms: | beginning, source, start |
| Main Entry: | destiny |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fate |
| Synonyms: | afterlife, break*, certainty, circumstance, conclusion, condition, cup, design, doom, expectation, finality, fortune, future, happenstance, hereafter, horoscope, intent, intention, karma, kismet*, lot, luck, objective, ordinance, portion, predestination, prospect, serendipity, wheel of fortune*, Moirai, breaks, constellation, course of events, divine decree, foreordination, inevitability, predetermination, the stars, way the ball bounces, way the cookie crumbles, what is written, world to come |
| Antonyms: | choice, free will, volition |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | direction |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | course, route |
| Synonyms: | aim, angle, area, aspect, bearing, beeline*, bent, bias, current, drift, end, inclination, line, objective, orientation, outlook, path, proclivity, range, region, road, set, side, slant, spot, standpoint, stream, tack, tendency, tide, track, trajectory, trend, viewpoint, way, point of compass, that-a-way |
| Antonyms: | deviation, misdirection, wrong way |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | distance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | interval, range |
| Synonyms: | absence, ambit, area, bit, breadth, compass, country mile*, expanse, extension, extent, gap, hinterland, horizon, lapse, length, objective, orbit, outpost, outskirts, purlieu, radius, reach, remove, scope, separation, size, sky, space, span, spread, stretch, sweep, way, width, amplitude, far piece, farness, good ways, heavens, provinces, purview, remoteness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | end |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | intention, aim |
| Synonyms: | aspiration, design, drift, goal, intent, mark, object, objective, point, purpose, reason, where one's heading |
| Antonyms: | means |
| Main Entry: | function |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | capacity, job |
| Synonyms: | action, activity, affair, behavior, business, charge, concern, duty, employment, exercise, faculty, goal, mark, mission, object, objective, occupation, office, operation, part, post, power, province, purpose, raison d'être, responsibility, role, service, situation, target, task, use, utility, work |
| Main Entry: | goal |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | aim, purpose of an action |
| Synonyms: | ambition, design, destination, duty, end, intent, intention, limit, mark, mission, object, objective, target, use, zero*, ground zero |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | idea |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | something understood, planned, or |
| Synonyms: | aim, approximation, belief, brainstorm*, clue, concept, conception, conclusion, conviction, design, doctrine, end, essence, estimate, fancy, feeling, flash*, form, guess, hint, hypothesis, import, impression, inkling, intention, interpretation, intimation, judgment, meaning, notion, object, objective, opinion, pattern, perception, plan, purpose, reason, scheme, sense, significance, solution, suggestion, suspicion, teaching, theory, thought, understanding, view, viewpoint, believed abstraction |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | import |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | significance, weight |
| Synonyms: | consequence, design, emphasis, importance, intent, magnitude, moment, object, objective, pith, purpose, stress, substance, value, worth, momentousness, signification, weightiness |
| Antonyms: | insignificance |
| Main Entry: | intent/intention |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | aim, purpose |
| Synonyms: | animus, bottom line*, design, desire, drift, end, goal, heart, hope, idea, import, meaning, meat*, name of the game*, nature, notion, nub, nuts and bolts*, object, objective, plan, point, project, purport, scheme, score, sense, significance, target, understanding, volition, will, wish, acceptation, conation, intendment, significancy, signification |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | mark |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | goal, target |
| Synonyms: | aim, ambition, bull's eye, duty, end, function, object, objective, prey, purpose, use |
| Main Entry: | mecca |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | center, goal |
| Synonyms: | aim, capital, destination, focal point, focus, heart, hub, nerve center, objective, purpose |
| Main Entry: | mission |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person's task, responsibility |
| Synonyms: | aim, assignment, business, calling, charge, commission, duty, end, errand, goal, job, lifework, object, objective, office, operation, profession, purpose, pursuit, quest, sortie, trade, trust, undertaking, vocation, work |
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