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purposive
/ ˈpɜːpəsɪv /
adjective
- relating to, having, or indicating conscious intention
- serving a purpose; useful
Derived Forms
- ˈpurposiveness, noun
- ˈpurposively, adverb
Other Words From
- purpos·ive·ly adverb
- purpos·ive·ness noun
- non·purpos·ive adjective
- non·purpos·ive·ly adverb
- non·purpos·ive·ness noun
- pre·purpos·ive adjective
- semi·purpos·ive adjective
- semi·purpos·ive·ly adverb
- semi·purpos·ive·ness noun
- un·purpos·ive adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of purposive1
Example Sentences
The Conservative Party had "been through a volcanic period of turmoil" and "has not looked like a party of unified commitment to purposive renewable," Mr Freeman said.
With her caring but purposively unmoored essays, she has done just this.
Its founders chose, at the moment of inception, to be intellectually dishonest — which, I would further argue, is in keeping with their purposively constipated "originalist/textualist" approach.
Aristotle thought about the natural world in exactly the same way: that is to say, he saw it as the product of rational, purposive activity.
Circulating through this purposive material stockpile is the only way to experience an art built entirely on double takes.
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