purposive
名词 n.
形容词 adj.
英 /ˈpəːpəsɪv/
美 /ˈpɚpəsɪv/
英文释义
名词 n.
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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’.
形容词 adj.
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Serving 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.
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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.
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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.
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Pertaining to or demonstrating purpose.
— The world was generally agreed to be a purposive one, responsive to the wishes of its Creator […].
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Possessed of a firm purpose.
— Whenever she opened a scientific book and saw whole paragraphs of incomprehensible words and symbols, she felt a sense of wonder at the great territories of learning that lay beyond her—the sum of so many noble and purposive attempts to make objective sense of the world.
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Of a clause or conjunction: expressing purpose.
— Many scholars suggest that […] the increase in the use of the to-infinitive in Middle English took place at the expense of the bare infinitive (i.e. an infinitive without the marker to). […] due to the loss of verbal inflections, it became difficult to distinguish the infinitival form from other verbal forms. As a result […] to began to function as a mere marker of the infinitive, losing its original ‘purposive’ sense […]
词汇关系
词源
词源 1
From purpose + -ive. Compare purpositive.
词源 2
From purpose + -ive. Compare purpositive.
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