LekhoriLekhoriServing a particular purpose; useful; adapted to a given purpose, especially through natural evolution.
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.
Done or performed with a conscious purpose or intent.
It would have been quite impossible to use the A vocabulary for literary purposes or for political or philosophical discussion. It was intended only to express simple, purposive thoughts, usually involving concrete objects or physical actions.
Pertaining to purpose, as reflected in behaviour or mental activity.
Ursula could not believe the air in her nostrils. It seemed conscious, malevolent, purposive in its intense murderous coldness.
A mood indicating a purpose of the course of activity expressed by the verb.
This purposive was described by speakers as referring to the action which can be observed at the moment of speech; this is why it is termed ‘visual’.
From purpose + -ive. Compare purpositive.
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