purposeful

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Etymology

From purpose +‎ -ful.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈpɜː.pəs.fəl/

  • Audio (Southern England):

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈpɝ.pəs.fəl/

Adjective

purposeful (comparative more purposeful, superlative most purposeful)

1. Having purpose: having intention or meaning; intentional.
   • 1926, Journal of Educational Method, page 98:

     […] particular improvements in the teacher's stimulation and direction of the purposeful activities of children. It indicates, in this particular, growth of the teacher in guiding the purposeful activities of boys and girls. The purposes, in brief, are : 1. Primary purpose: to enable the teacher to grow continuously in stimulating and directing the purposeful activities of boys and girls. 2. Secondary purpose: to reveal teaching difficulties […]

   • 2015 May 12, Kim Chamberlain, Conversation Starters for Every Grandparent: Tips for Talking to (and with) Your Grandchildren, Your Children, and Other Grandparents, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:

     […] spend purposeful time with my grandparents where we found out more about each other and had some interesting discussions.

2. Having a purpose in mind; resolute; determined, full of determination.
   • 2011 November 10, Jeremy Wilson, “England Under 21 5 Iceland Under 21 0: match report”, in Telegraph‎:

     An utterly emphatic 5-0 victory was ultimately capped by two wonder strikes in the last two minutes from Aston Villa midfielder Gary Gardner. Before that, England had utterly dominated to take another purposeful stride towards the 2013 European Championship in Israel. They have already established a five-point buffer at the top of Group Eight.

Synonyms

• (intentional): deliberate, intentional, purposive, see Thesaurus:intentional
• (resolute): determined, focused, resolute

Derived terms

• multipurposeful
• nonpurposeful
• purposeful availment
• purposefully
• purposefulness
• semipurposeful
• unpurposeful

Related terms

• purposive

Translations

intentional

Bulgarian: умишлен (bg) (umišlen) Dutch: opzettelijk (nl) Hungarian: céltudatos (hu), szándékos (hu) Maori: whaitake Russian: целенапра́вленный (ru) (celenaprávlennyj), умы́шленный (ru) (umýšlennyj) Spanish: propositivo Turkish: kasıtlı (tr), istemli (tr), kasti (tr)

resolute

Bulgarian: решителен (bg) (rešitelen), целеустремен (bg) (celeustremen) Dutch: vastberaden (nl) German: entschlossen (de), zielgerichtet (de) Hungarian: eltökélt (hu), határozott (hu), szilárd (hu) Maori: whaitake Russian: целеустремлённый (ru) (celeustremljónnyj), реши́тельный (ru) (rešítelʹnyj) Spanish: propositivo Swedish: målmedveten (sv) Turkish: amaçlı (tr), gayeli (tr), maksatlı (tr), kasıtlı (tr)

See also

• nose to the grindstone