Sekirov Dictionary

purposive

UK /ˈpəːpəsɪv/US /ˈpɚpəsɪv/

adjective 6
noun 1
forms 2

adjective6

•
Done or performed with a conscious purpose or intent.
- Most human activity is purposive.
•
Pertaining to purpose, as reflected in behaviour or mental activity.
- Ursula could not believe the air in her nostrils. It seemed conscious, malevolent, purposive in its intense murderous coldness. — 1920
•
Pertaining to or demonstrating purpose.
- The world was generally agreed to be a purposive one, responsive to the wishes of its Creator […]. — 1971
Serving a particular purpose; useful; adapted to a given purpose, especially through natural evolution.
•
Possessed of a firm purpose.
- I had a purposive air about me that night.
Of a clause or conjunction: expressing purpose.

noun1

•
A mood indicating a purpose of the course of activity expressed by the verb.
- This purposive was described by speakers as referring to the action which can be observed at the moment of speech; this is why it is termed ‘visual’. — 2003

forms

more purposive · most purposive

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