purposive
pronunciation
How to pronounce purposive in British English:
UK [ˈpɜ:pəsɪv]
How to pronounce purposive in American English:
US [ˈpɜrpəsɪv]
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- Adjective:
- having or showing or acting with a purpose or design
- having a purpose
Word Origin
- purposive (adj.)
- 1849, from purpose + -ive.
Example
- 1. Economic evolution and biological evolution are different : the fact that human beings can plan and adapt makes economic evolution faster and more purposive than biological evolution .
- 2. Instead of seeding more startups taking a 20th century approach to business as usual , can you seed newer , better , more purposive , more valuable kinds of companies - and then do the same for funds , returns , and ipos ?
- 3. I would urge the court on appeal to adopt a purposive construction , on which the contract would implicitly authorize what was necessary to enable shylock to obtain his pound of flesh , including the shedding of antonio 's blood .
- 4. The purposive sampling method was conducted as research methodology among total 118 students with visual impairment who currently studying in either normal high schools or special education schools .
- 5. The adopted clinical study method is field studies , and the study objects are through purposive sampling , collect information by participate in observation and go deep into interview .