Uttal

  • UK:
    • IPA: /ˈpəːpəsɪv/
Översättning
Adjektiv
1.ändamålsenlig

Definitioner

Adjektiv

  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. (psychology) Pertaining to purpose, as reflected in behaviour or mental activity.
  4. Pertaining to to or demonstrating purpose.
  5. Possessed of a firm purpose; determined, resolute.
  6. (grammar) Of a clause or conjunction: expressing purpose.

Exempel

  • Other ecclesiastics [...] were similarly accepting of a space for purposive and beneficent human action and betterment in a disenchanted world.
  • The world was generally agreed to be a purposive one, responsive to the wishes of its Creator […].

Böjningsformer

Komparativmore purposive
Superlativmost purposive