purposive

Meaning of purposive

adjective
  1. Serving a particular purpose; adapted to a given purpose, especially through natural evolution.
  2. Done or performed with a conscious purpose or intent.
  3. Pertaining to purpose, as reflected in behaviour or mental activity.
  4. Pertaining to or demonstrating purpose.
  5. Possessed of a firm purpose.
  6. (grammar) Of a clause or conjunction: expressing purpose.

Information about purposive

  • It is an adjective.
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Hyphenation of purposive

pur-po-sive

  • It consists of 3 syllables and 9 chars.
  • purposive is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables

purposive synonyms

Meaning :

deliberate, intentional, purposeful, determined, resolute

Words that rhyme with purposive

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