so intent on going to Florida

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Hi, what is "intent on" in this context?

"And he was so intent on going to Florida—Florida!—that he was willing to leave
his daughter’s recital drive out to the airport ..."
 

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It means he was absolutely determined to go. Nothing would stop him. He was adamant he would go.

Look up the definition of "intent" as an adjective.
 

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Hi Em I should have said that the dictionary wrote "Focus" and it didn't seem so logical to me, thanks ...
 

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Hi Em I should have said that the dictionary wrote "Focus" and it didn't seem so logical to me, thanks ...
Which dictionary gave "focus" as the meaning of "intent" as an adjective?
 

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Hi, it's an English-Hebrew one Morfix.co.il
 

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Hi, it's an English-Hebrew one Morfix.co.il
If it's English-Hebrew, how come it used an English, rather than a Hebrew, word to define 'intent'?
 

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If it's English-Hebrew, how come it used an English, rather than a Hebrew, word to define 'intent'?

Hi, If you enter to the page and write a word in English it will give you the meaning in Hebrew, or you can put a word in Hebrew and gets the meaning in English but that in many times won't help :up:
 

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So it did not directly define 'intent' as focus then?
 

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So it did not directly define 'intent' as focus then?

Hi it wrote in adv: Focused (sorry not only focus but in Hebrew) ?
 
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