[
US
/ˈpɝpəsfəɫ/
]
[ UK /pˈɜːpəsfəl/ ]
[ UK /pˈɜːpəsfəl/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
having meaning through having an aim
led a happy purposeful life - serving as or indicating the existence of a purpose or goal
How To Use purposeful In A Sentence
- The language is amusingly flowery and the overall tone one of purposeful pleasure. Times, Sunday Times
- Purposefully moraceous make money work from home, but the lintwhite unholiness was that the wildness sokoro was buried me surpassingly was a permanently in the pintado flyer skillet. Rational Review
- The clanking sounded systematic somehow; not rhythmic like a drumbeat in music, yet purposeful.
- They strode on stage, looking purposeful. Times, Sunday Times
- The exhibits seem perfectly matched, rather than purposefully included. Times, Sunday Times
- Lady Macbeth has nothing personal against the men, women and children she must destroy to clear her husband's way to power - her purposefulness is pure.
- The messenger's purposeful tread down the short avenue followed; then the noisy jangling of the bell. Scottish Voices 1745-1960
- She organized them into an orderly set of people each working purposefully and productively.
- Sport gives you this incredibly purposeful life. Times, Sunday Times
- Wallace always felt that ‘selection’ inappropriately imported anthropomorphic notions of Nature choosing purposefully between variants into natural history.