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purposive

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9 lettersPronunciation /ˈpəːpəsɪv/Part of speech adjectiveSorted eiopprsuvStarts with PEnds with E0 clues
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Definitions

  1. having a purpose

Word origin

From purpose + -ive. Compare purpositive.

Used in a sentence

  • Irresistably it came to me again that beauty, far from being wasted, was purposive, that this purpose was of a redeeming kind, and that some one who was pleased co-operated with it for my personal benefit.
  • As we saw in our discussion of the FAKE GUN example in chapter 19, there are natural dimensions to our categories for objects: […] purposive, based on the uses we can make of an object in a given situation.
  • Other ecclesiastics [...] were similarly accepting of a space for purposive and beneficent human action and betterment in a disenchanted world.

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