purposeful

4 definitions found

purposeful - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

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

  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]

purposeful - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  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"

purposeful - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  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