[responsivevoice] purposive [/responsivevoice] [ pur-puh-siv ]
The word of the day is ‘purposive’
The word is an adjective, i.e., it adds more information about the noun or sentence.
No, the word is an adjective. Therefore, it does not have a past form.
It means:
1. Having or done with a purpose.
2. Deliberate
3. Intentional
4. Willful
1. Hindi – Ekaagr
2. Spanish – Deliberado
3. French – Objectif
4. Mandarin – Mùdì de
1. Causal effects are sought in a sphere which belongs to purposive values.
2. I understand his inner life by taking a purposive point of view.
3. Teaching is a purposive activity.
4. One moves in the purposive sphere, the other in the causal sphere.
5. He wanted to be unanimous with the whole of purposive mankind.
calculated, careful, cautious, purposeful, willful, advised, considered, designed, express, fixed, intended, judged, planned, pondered, prearranged, predetermined, projected, purposed, reasoned, resolved, schemed, aforethought, predeterminate, prepense etc
Some antonyms of the word are:
careless, heedless, ignorant, imprudent, inattentive, incautious, thoughtless, uncareful, unmindful, indefinite, unplanned, chance, indeterminate, unintentional, unmethodical, systematic, unwitting, vacillant,
Quotation:
Life is a biography, not a series of disconnected moments, more or less pleasurable but increasingly tedious and unsatisfying unless one imposes a purposive pattern upon them.
Theodore Dalrymple
Social Example:
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