Purposeful

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Purposeful \Pur"pose*ful\, a.
     Important; material. "Purposeful accounts." --Tylor. --
     {Pur"pose*ful*ly}, adv.
     [1913 Webster]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:



  meaningful \meaningful\ adj.
     Having a meaning or purpose; having significance; as, a
     meaningful explanation; a meaningful discussion; a meaningful
     pause; to live a meaningful life. Opposite of {meaningless}.
     [Narrower terms: {comprehensible, understandable};
     {indicative, significative, suggestive ; {meaty, substantive
     ; {purposeful}] Also See: {purposeful}, {significant},
     {important}.
     [WordNet 1.5]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  purposeful
       adj 1: serving as or indicating the existence of a purpose or goal
              [ant: {purposeless}]
       2: having meaning through having an aim; "led a happy
          purposeful life"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  64 Moby Thesaurus words for "purposeful":
     advised, affirmed, aimed, aimed at, bound, bound and determined,
     calculated, certain, committed, confirmed, conscious, considered,
     contemplated, decided, decisive, dedicated, definite, deliberate,
     deliberated, designed, determined, devoted, dogged, earnest,
     envisaged, envisioned, firm, fixed, intended, intentional, knowing,
     meant, meditated, obstinate, of design, persevering, persistent,
     pertinacious, planned, positive, projected, proposed, purposed,
     purposive, relentless, resolute, resolved, serious, settled,
     sincere, single-minded, staunch, steadfast, strong-willed, studied,
     sure, teleological, tenacious, unfailing, unfaltering, voluntary,
     wholehearted, willful, witting