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purposive

[ pur-puh-siv ]

adjective

  1. having, showing, or acting with a purpose, intention, or design.
  2. adapted to a purpose or end.
  3. serving some purpose.
  4. determined; resolute.
  5. of or characteristic of purpose.


purposive

/ ˈɜːəɪ /

adjective

  1. relating to, having, or indicating conscious intention
  2. serving a purpose; useful
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Derived Forms

  • ˈܰDzԱ, noun
  • ˈܰDz, adverb
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Other Word Forms

  • ܰpDz·· adverb
  • ܰpDz··Ա noun
  • ԴDz·ܰpDz· adjective
  • non·ܰpDz·· adverb
  • non·ܰpDz··Ա noun
  • ·ܰpDz· adjective
  • i·ܰpDz· adjective
  • semi·ܰpDz·· adverb
  • semi·ܰpDz··Ա noun
  • ܲ·ܰpDz· adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of purposive1

First recorded in 1850–55; purpose + -ive
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Example Sentences

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Young boys turn cartwheels, women in vivid head-to-toe veils walk purposively past, and donkey carts ferrying water drums trot along dusty dirt roads.

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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.

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With her caring but purposively unmoored essays, she has done just this.

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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.

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For them, as we saw in Chapter 9, the argument from design depended on envisaging the universe as manufactured, rather than on showing nature itself to be purposive.

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