Purposive
[pә:pәsiv]
Definition
(adj.) having or showing or acting with a purpose or design; 'purposive behavior' .
Edited by Kelsey--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Having or indicating purpose or design.
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Examples
- It seemed conscious, malevolent, purposive in its intense murderous coldness. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Mind, individual method, originality (these are convertible terms) signify the quality of purposive or directed action. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- To be out of one's senses is to lack the purposive guidance of the intelligence. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
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