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purposive
/ ˈɜːəɪ /
adjective
- relating to, having, or indicating conscious intention
- serving a purpose; useful
Derived Forms
- ˈܰDzԱ, noun
- ˈܰDz, adverb
Other Word Forms
- ܰpDz·· adverb
- ܰpDz··Ա noun
- ԴDz·ܰpDz· adjective
- non·ܰpDz·· adverb
- non·ܰpDz··Ա noun
- ·ܰpDz· adjective
- i·ܰpDz· adjective
- semi·ܰpDz·· adverb
- semi·ܰpDz··Ա noun
- ܲ·ܰpDz· adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of purposive1
Example Sentences
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.
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.
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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