Definition of purposeful in English:

purposeful

adjective ˈpəːpəsf(ə)lˈpəːpəsfʊlˈpərpəsfəl

1Having or showing determination or resolve.
坚定的；有决心的；果断的
the purposeful stride of a great barrister
大律师坚定的步伐。
Example sentencesExamples
- Turning, he walked down the hall with long purposeful strides.
- They walked in the blazing noonday sun with a new purposeful stride.
- Kings Cross wasn't too bad; I got used to the dealers and hookers hassling me, and they seemed to recognise by my purposeful stride that I was a local and left me alone for the best part.
- Taking slow, purposeful strides he took the seat next to Victoria on the bench and wrapped his arms around her; pulling her close to him so she could cry into his shoulder.
- It was noticeable that when Phillips, still the pupil, came to that fence, it was surer, the stride more purposeful, the energy of youth omnipotent.
- He takes the stage with a stride that's purposeful, elegant, even serene, befitting a Californian who seriously loves surfing, martial arts and fast cars.
- His sprightly frame is totally erect with not a hint of a stoop and his quick stride and purposeful gait would put men half his age to shame.
- Her father's face was a crimson colour with his hands held in fists at his sides, and her mother was walking purposeful strides towards her.
- Krys began walking in long, purposeful strides toward S & S. ‘Do you know?’
- Men and women of various ages and shapes were taking purposeful strides, either walking, jogging, or running.
- The relentless sun beating down, our initially purposeful stride declines to a sporadic meander as we ascend the steps.
- But Kinamori was not fooled by his purposeful stride; rather she became tense with fear and suspicion.
- They don't beg and harass the stream of crowds that pass them with purposeful strides, the way their counterparts do in San Francisco.
- Lani strode from the hall, purposeful steps and determined expression a warning to all the servants in the palace.
- He set off for the pasture with a purposeful stride.
- Moments later, however, he was once again walking in that slow purposeful stride toward the woods.
- At the age of 35 he continues to cover the ground with a purposeful stride.
- The purposeful stride of a child-protagonist is shown largely through a close-up of his feet.
- He has always found it easier to look purposeful by striding about on the world stage than by getting stuck into the messy business of domestic politics.
- Up close, she could tell that the two of them could not be much older than her or Alisha, and they both wore a determined and purposeful look.
Synonyms
determined, resolute, resolved, firm, steadfast, single-minded
enthusiastic, ambitious, enterprising, motivated, driven, committed, dedicated, persistent, persevering, tenacious, dogged, unfaltering, unwavering, unshakeable
2Having a useful purpose.
有目的的，有益的，有用的
purposeful activities
有益的活动。
Example sentencesExamples
- Communities of practice develop as people engage in shared, purposeful, and patterned activities, which contribute learning.
- Learning carpentry, on the other hand, involves purposeful activity and experimentation, a kind of learning that is beyond verbalization.
- What it does mean is that they cannot be given as much education and purposeful activity than if we had fewer prisoners.
- Are some lives, the question essentially goes, to be considered less valuable, less meaningful, less purposeful and hence less worthy of society's protection than others?
- Instead of seeing the organizations as comprising buildings, offices, car parks, rule books, meetings and other forms of purposeful activity, we see these as symbol systems.
- It keeps people busy with useful, purposeful work, and that's a good way to form a team.
- Crisp, purposeful but most importantly useful - almost a personal assistant, perhaps even a personal digital assistant.
- Bowen shares several perspectives about combat that are useful and purposeful to the student of warfare.
- Scientists have long been fascinated by ants because of the extraordinary way they organise themselves into colonies that display purposeful activity.
- The 241-pupil school is commended for ‘buzzing with purposeful activities and pupils showing a genuine love of learning’.
- ‘An important aspect of the prison regime is that of rehabilitation and encouraging prisoners in a positive and purposeful activity,’ a spokesman said.
- In smaller nursing homes, where low profit margins do not allow the employment of full multidisciplinary teams, patients are subjected to little purposeful activity.
- This is determined by the central place the means and methods occupy in the structure of people's meaningful and purposeful activity.
- His way is to embrace all the infinite pointless and impossible acts that surround every useful, purposeful decision.
- Yet the committee gathered and spent two days in generally useful and purposeful discussions.
- Emotions like grief, fear and despair are purposeful and useful - if we know how to listen to them.
- In a climate of political exhaustion, maybe it's time that arts institutions asserted the value of their work, and led policymakers back towards an acknowledgement of art as a purposeful activity in its own right?
- Remembering may be a spontaneous or purposeful activity.
- Board members found the centre's gym was modern and well-used, providing the main opportunity to get prisoners out of their cells and involved in purposeful activity such as first aid skills.
- We celebrate because through Jesus Christ we gain access to not just heaven, but to a purposeful and meaningful relationship with Almighty God.
Synonyms
valuable, of value, worth it, worth the effort, useful, of use, usable, of service, beneficial, rewarding, advantageous, positive, helpful, of help, of assistance, profitable, gainful, fruitful, productive, constructive, effective, efficacious, effectual, justifiable, significant, important, substantial, meaningful, worthy
3Intentional.
故意的，蓄意的
if his sudden death was not accidental, it must have been purposeful
如果他的猝死不属偶然，那就是蓄意造成的了。
Example sentencesExamples
- If the situation arose through that person's purposeful negligence, however, then he is considered a purposeful wrongdoer.
- The bombing was a planned, purposeful attack, while the Port Authority was at most negligent in failing to defend its property more carefully.
- Reflex withdrawal from a painful stimulus is not considered a purposeful response.
- The term ‘spectator’ as that word is understood in its ordinary sense in context with the statutory terms, is a purposeful, knowing or intentional observer of an event.
- Yet its exhibits, gleaned from some of the world's finest collections, elegantly displayed and labelled, are in essence, works of purposeful, premeditated vandalism.
- We must make conscious, purposeful decisions to take care of other people, the natural environment and ourselves as well.
- There is no need for any purposeful and deliberate attempt to protect dialects.
- In fact, these disclosures were significantly more likely to be purposeful, which was defined as the intentional and deliberate report of abuse.
- These killings are planned, purposeful, and remorseless.
- The only way that this can be achieved, it seems, is by the wilful and purposeful appropriation of Aboriginal narratives by non-indigenous Australians.
- But it would be more correct to say that our consciousness and purposeful behavior results from such natural behavior of energy systems.
- But in this case, I think the problem is more the reporter's innate prejudice than any purposeful intention to smear the U.S. Army.
- The conclusion examines the tensions between the idea of strategy as purposeful direction/plan of action and as a zone of complexity.
- Some scientific breakthroughs, like Edison's invention of the light bulb, are purposeful and planned.
- Without conscious thought and purposeful efforts to hold everything in balance, Americans have always somehow succeeded in doing just that.
- Every move was deliberate and purposeful, almost as if she were executing some sort of martial art act.
- Unfortunately, the convenient assumption that any rational leader also will be reasonable sets up the observer to miss an opponent's conscious and purposeful moves that are far outside expected norms.
- Also complicated are Ana's decision and purposeful plans to lose her virginity.
- The state calculated the amount of purposeful underpayment by Chevron to be $13.5 million over the thirteen years and the jury agreed.
- As a third party, un-involved, I cannot comment on the validity of the actions in question, nor to the motivation of the incident, whether accidental or purposeful in nature.
Synonyms
deliberate, calculated, conscious, done on purpose, intended, planned, meant, considered, studied, knowing, wilful, wanton, purposive, purposed, premeditated, pre-planned, thought out in advance, prearranged, preconceived, predetermined

Derivatives

purposefulness

nounˈpəːpəsf(ə)lnəsˈpəːpəsfʊlnəsˈpərpəsfəlnəs

The criminal ‘justice’ system functions to alienate and isolate the accused individual, to destroy one's power and purposefulness and to weave a web of confusion and mystification around any legal proceedings.
Example sentencesExamples
- Color, too, makes a major contribution - its monochrome quality adding purposefulness, consistency and intensity.
- There has always been a furious doggedness to him, a strong-willed purposefulness that drove him, sometimes headlong, through life.
- Hess may have been noted above all for the poetry of her performances, but there is ample evidence here of her power and purposefulness.
- 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.

Definition of purposeful in US English:

purposeful

adjectiveˈpərpəsfəlˈpərpəsfəl

1Having or showing determination or resolve.
坚定的；有决心的；果断的
the purposeful stride of a great lawyer
大律师坚定的步伐。
Example sentencesExamples
- Turning, he walked down the hall with long purposeful strides.
- His sprightly frame is totally erect with not a hint of a stoop and his quick stride and purposeful gait would put men half his age to shame.
- They don't beg and harass the stream of crowds that pass them with purposeful strides, the way their counterparts do in San Francisco.
- Kings Cross wasn't too bad; I got used to the dealers and hookers hassling me, and they seemed to recognise by my purposeful stride that I was a local and left me alone for the best part.
- Her father's face was a crimson colour with his hands held in fists at his sides, and her mother was walking purposeful strides towards her.
- The relentless sun beating down, our initially purposeful stride declines to a sporadic meander as we ascend the steps.
- Men and women of various ages and shapes were taking purposeful strides, either walking, jogging, or running.
- He takes the stage with a stride that's purposeful, elegant, even serene, befitting a Californian who seriously loves surfing, martial arts and fast cars.
- Up close, she could tell that the two of them could not be much older than her or Alisha, and they both wore a determined and purposeful look.
- But Kinamori was not fooled by his purposeful stride; rather she became tense with fear and suspicion.
- They walked in the blazing noonday sun with a new purposeful stride.
- At the age of 35 he continues to cover the ground with a purposeful stride.
- It was noticeable that when Phillips, still the pupil, came to that fence, it was surer, the stride more purposeful, the energy of youth omnipotent.
- Moments later, however, he was once again walking in that slow purposeful stride toward the woods.
- Taking slow, purposeful strides he took the seat next to Victoria on the bench and wrapped his arms around her; pulling her close to him so she could cry into his shoulder.
- He set off for the pasture with a purposeful stride.
- He has always found it easier to look purposeful by striding about on the world stage than by getting stuck into the messy business of domestic politics.
- Lani strode from the hall, purposeful steps and determined expression a warning to all the servants in the palace.
- Krys began walking in long, purposeful strides toward S & S. ‘Do you know?’
- The purposeful stride of a child-protagonist is shown largely through a close-up of his feet.
Synonyms
determined, resolute, resolved, firm, steadfast, single-minded
1. 1.1 Having a useful purpose.
  有目的的，有益的，有用的
  purposeful activities
  有益的活动。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Bowen shares several perspectives about combat that are useful and purposeful to the student of warfare.
  Yet the committee gathered and spent two days in generally useful and purposeful discussions.
  His way is to embrace all the infinite pointless and impossible acts that surround every useful, purposeful decision.
  Crisp, purposeful but most importantly useful - almost a personal assistant, perhaps even a personal digital assistant.
  Remembering may be a spontaneous or purposeful activity.
  In a climate of political exhaustion, maybe it's time that arts institutions asserted the value of their work, and led policymakers back towards an acknowledgement of art as a purposeful activity in its own right?
  Communities of practice develop as people engage in shared, purposeful, and patterned activities, which contribute learning.
  Scientists have long been fascinated by ants because of the extraordinary way they organise themselves into colonies that display purposeful activity.
  Are some lives, the question essentially goes, to be considered less valuable, less meaningful, less purposeful and hence less worthy of society's protection than others?
  This is determined by the central place the means and methods occupy in the structure of people's meaningful and purposeful activity.
  We celebrate because through Jesus Christ we gain access to not just heaven, but to a purposeful and meaningful relationship with Almighty God.
  Board members found the centre's gym was modern and well-used, providing the main opportunity to get prisoners out of their cells and involved in purposeful activity such as first aid skills.
  In smaller nursing homes, where low profit margins do not allow the employment of full multidisciplinary teams, patients are subjected to little purposeful activity.
  It keeps people busy with useful, purposeful work, and that's a good way to form a team.
  ‘An important aspect of the prison regime is that of rehabilitation and encouraging prisoners in a positive and purposeful activity,’ a spokesman said.
  What it does mean is that they cannot be given as much education and purposeful activity than if we had fewer prisoners.
  Learning carpentry, on the other hand, involves purposeful activity and experimentation, a kind of learning that is beyond verbalization.
  Instead of seeing the organizations as comprising buildings, offices, car parks, rule books, meetings and other forms of purposeful activity, we see these as symbol systems.
  Emotions like grief, fear and despair are purposeful and useful - if we know how to listen to them.
  The 241-pupil school is commended for ‘buzzing with purposeful activities and pupils showing a genuine love of learning’.
  Synonyms
  valuable, of value, worth it, worth the effort, useful, of use, usable, of service, beneficial, rewarding, advantageous, positive, helpful, of help, of assistance, profitable, gainful, fruitful, productive, constructive, effective, efficacious, effectual, justifiable, significant, important, substantial, meaningful, worthy
2. 1.2 Intentional.
  故意的，蓄意的
  if his sudden death was not accidental, it must have been purposeful
  如果他的猝死不属偶然，那就是蓄意造成的了。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Yet its exhibits, gleaned from some of the world's finest collections, elegantly displayed and labelled, are in essence, works of purposeful, premeditated vandalism.
  Reflex withdrawal from a painful stimulus is not considered a purposeful response.
  The only way that this can be achieved, it seems, is by the wilful and purposeful appropriation of Aboriginal narratives by non-indigenous Australians.
  The conclusion examines the tensions between the idea of strategy as purposeful direction/plan of action and as a zone of complexity.
  But in this case, I think the problem is more the reporter's innate prejudice than any purposeful intention to smear the U.S. Army.
  Every move was deliberate and purposeful, almost as if she were executing some sort of martial art act.
  Some scientific breakthroughs, like Edison's invention of the light bulb, are purposeful and planned.
  The bombing was a planned, purposeful attack, while the Port Authority was at most negligent in failing to defend its property more carefully.
  But it would be more correct to say that our consciousness and purposeful behavior results from such natural behavior of energy systems.
  As a third party, un-involved, I cannot comment on the validity of the actions in question, nor to the motivation of the incident, whether accidental or purposeful in nature.
  The state calculated the amount of purposeful underpayment by Chevron to be $13.5 million over the thirteen years and the jury agreed.
  Also complicated are Ana's decision and purposeful plans to lose her virginity.
  There is no need for any purposeful and deliberate attempt to protect dialects.
  Unfortunately, the convenient assumption that any rational leader also will be reasonable sets up the observer to miss an opponent's conscious and purposeful moves that are far outside expected norms.
  We must make conscious, purposeful decisions to take care of other people, the natural environment and ourselves as well.
  These killings are planned, purposeful, and remorseless.
  If the situation arose through that person's purposeful negligence, however, then he is considered a purposeful wrongdoer.
  The term ‘spectator’ as that word is understood in its ordinary sense in context with the statutory terms, is a purposeful, knowing or intentional observer of an event.
  Without conscious thought and purposeful efforts to hold everything in balance, Americans have always somehow succeeded in doing just that.
  In fact, these disclosures were significantly more likely to be purposeful, which was defined as the intentional and deliberate report of abuse.
  Synonyms
  deliberate, calculated, conscious, done on purpose, intended, planned, meant, considered, studied, knowing, wilful, wanton, purposive, purposed, premeditated, pre-planned, thought out in advance, prearranged, preconceived, predetermined

词汇	purposeful
释义	Definition of purposeful in English: purposeful adjective ˈpəːpəsf(ə)lˈpəːpəsfʊlˈpərpəsfəl 1Having or showing determination or resolve. 坚定的；有决心的；果断的 the purposeful stride of a great barrister 大律师坚定的步伐。 Example sentencesExamples Turning, he walked down the hall with long purposeful strides. They walked in the blazing noonday sun with a new purposeful stride. Kings Cross wasn't too bad; I got used to the dealers and hookers hassling me, and they seemed to recognise by my purposeful stride that I was a local and left me alone for the best part. Taking slow, purposeful strides he took the seat next to Victoria on the bench and wrapped his arms around her; pulling her close to him so she could cry into his shoulder. It was noticeable that when Phillips, still the pupil, came to that fence, it was surer, the stride more purposeful, the energy of youth omnipotent. He takes the stage with a stride that's purposeful, elegant, even serene, befitting a Californian who seriously loves surfing, martial arts and fast cars. His sprightly frame is totally erect with not a hint of a stoop and his quick stride and purposeful gait would put men half his age to shame. Her father's face was a crimson colour with his hands held in fists at his sides, and her mother was walking purposeful strides towards her. Krys began walking in long, purposeful strides toward S & S. ‘Do you know?’ Men and women of various ages and shapes were taking purposeful strides, either walking, jogging, or running. The relentless sun beating down, our initially purposeful stride declines to a sporadic meander as we ascend the steps. But Kinamori was not fooled by his purposeful stride; rather she became tense with fear and suspicion. They don't beg and harass the stream of crowds that pass them with purposeful strides, the way their counterparts do in San Francisco. Lani strode from the hall, purposeful steps and determined expression a warning to all the servants in the palace. He set off for the pasture with a purposeful stride. Moments later, however, he was once again walking in that slow purposeful stride toward the woods. At the age of 35 he continues to cover the ground with a purposeful stride. The purposeful stride of a child-protagonist is shown largely through a close-up of his feet. He has always found it easier to look purposeful by striding about on the world stage than by getting stuck into the messy business of domestic politics. Up close, she could tell that the two of them could not be much older than her or Alisha, and they both wore a determined and purposeful look. Synonyms determined, resolute, resolved, firm, steadfast, single-minded enthusiastic, ambitious, enterprising, motivated, driven, committed, dedicated, persistent, persevering, tenacious, dogged, unfaltering, unwavering, unshakeable 2Having a useful purpose. 有目的的，有益的，有用的 purposeful activities 有益的活动。 Example sentencesExamples Communities of practice develop as people engage in shared, purposeful, and patterned activities, which contribute learning. Learning carpentry, on the other hand, involves purposeful activity and experimentation, a kind of learning that is beyond verbalization. What it does mean is that they cannot be given as much education and purposeful activity than if we had fewer prisoners. Are some lives, the question essentially goes, to be considered less valuable, less meaningful, less purposeful and hence less worthy of society's protection than others? Instead of seeing the organizations as comprising buildings, offices, car parks, rule books, meetings and other forms of purposeful activity, we see these as symbol systems. It keeps people busy with useful, purposeful work, and that's a good way to form a team. Crisp, purposeful but most importantly useful - almost a personal assistant, perhaps even a personal digital assistant. Bowen shares several perspectives about combat that are useful and purposeful to the student of warfare. Scientists have long been fascinated by ants because of the extraordinary way they organise themselves into colonies that display purposeful activity. The 241-pupil school is commended for ‘buzzing with purposeful activities and pupils showing a genuine love of learning’. ‘An important aspect of the prison regime is that of rehabilitation and encouraging prisoners in a positive and purposeful activity,’ a spokesman said. In smaller nursing homes, where low profit margins do not allow the employment of full multidisciplinary teams, patients are subjected to little purposeful activity. This is determined by the central place the means and methods occupy in the structure of people's meaningful and purposeful activity. His way is to embrace all the infinite pointless and impossible acts that surround every useful, purposeful decision. Yet the committee gathered and spent two days in generally useful and purposeful discussions. Emotions like grief, fear and despair are purposeful and useful - if we know how to listen to them. In a climate of political exhaustion, maybe it's time that arts institutions asserted the value of their work, and led policymakers back towards an acknowledgement of art as a purposeful activity in its own right? Remembering may be a spontaneous or purposeful activity. Board members found the centre's gym was modern and well-used, providing the main opportunity to get prisoners out of their cells and involved in purposeful activity such as first aid skills. We celebrate because through Jesus Christ we gain access to not just heaven, but to a purposeful and meaningful relationship with Almighty God. Synonyms valuable, of value, worth it, worth the effort, useful, of use, usable, of service, beneficial, rewarding, advantageous, positive, helpful, of help, of assistance, profitable, gainful, fruitful, productive, constructive, effective, efficacious, effectual, justifiable, significant, important, substantial, meaningful, worthy 3Intentional. 故意的，蓄意的 if his sudden death was not accidental, it must have been purposeful 如果他的猝死不属偶然，那就是蓄意造成的了。 Example sentencesExamples If the situation arose through that person's purposeful negligence, however, then he is considered a purposeful wrongdoer. The bombing was a planned, purposeful attack, while the Port Authority was at most negligent in failing to defend its property more carefully. Reflex withdrawal from a painful stimulus is not considered a purposeful response. The term ‘spectator’ as that word is understood in its ordinary sense in context with the statutory terms, is a purposeful, knowing or intentional observer of an event. Yet its exhibits, gleaned from some of the world's finest collections, elegantly displayed and labelled, are in essence, works of purposeful, premeditated vandalism. We must make conscious, purposeful decisions to take care of other people, the natural environment and ourselves as well. There is no need for any purposeful and deliberate attempt to protect dialects. In fact, these disclosures were significantly more likely to be purposeful, which was defined as the intentional and deliberate report of abuse. These killings are planned, purposeful, and remorseless. The only way that this can be achieved, it seems, is by the wilful and purposeful appropriation of Aboriginal narratives by non-indigenous Australians. But it would be more correct to say that our consciousness and purposeful behavior results from such natural behavior of energy systems. But in this case, I think the problem is more the reporter's innate prejudice than any purposeful intention to smear the U.S. Army. The conclusion examines the tensions between the idea of strategy as purposeful direction/plan of action and as a zone of complexity. Some scientific breakthroughs, like Edison's invention of the light bulb, are purposeful and planned. Without conscious thought and purposeful efforts to hold everything in balance, Americans have always somehow succeeded in doing just that. Every move was deliberate and purposeful, almost as if she were executing some sort of martial art act. Unfortunately, the convenient assumption that any rational leader also will be reasonable sets up the observer to miss an opponent's conscious and purposeful moves that are far outside expected norms. Also complicated are Ana's decision and purposeful plans to lose her virginity. The state calculated the amount of purposeful underpayment by Chevron to be $13.5 million over the thirteen years and the jury agreed. As a third party, un-involved, I cannot comment on the validity of the actions in question, nor to the motivation of the incident, whether accidental or purposeful in nature. Synonyms deliberate, calculated, conscious, done on purpose, intended, planned, meant, considered, studied, knowing, wilful, wanton, purposive, purposed, premeditated, pre-planned, thought out in advance, prearranged, preconceived, predetermined Derivatives purposefulness nounˈpəːpəsf(ə)lnəsˈpəːpəsfʊlnəsˈpərpəsfəlnəs The criminal ‘justice’ system functions to alienate and isolate the accused individual, to destroy one's power and purposefulness and to weave a web of confusion and mystification around any legal proceedings. Example sentencesExamples Color, too, makes a major contribution - its monochrome quality adding purposefulness, consistency and intensity. There has always been a furious doggedness to him, a strong-willed purposefulness that drove him, sometimes headlong, through life. Hess may have been noted above all for the poetry of her performances, but there is ample evidence here of her power and purposefulness. 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. Definition of purposeful in US English: purposeful adjectiveˈpərpəsfəlˈpərpəsfəl 1Having or showing determination or resolve. 坚定的；有决心的；果断的 the purposeful stride of a great lawyer 大律师坚定的步伐。 Example sentencesExamples Turning, he walked down the hall with long purposeful strides. His sprightly frame is totally erect with not a hint of a stoop and his quick stride and purposeful gait would put men half his age to shame. They don't beg and harass the stream of crowds that pass them with purposeful strides, the way their counterparts do in San Francisco. Kings Cross wasn't too bad; I got used to the dealers and hookers hassling me, and they seemed to recognise by my purposeful stride that I was a local and left me alone for the best part. Her father's face was a crimson colour with his hands held in fists at his sides, and her mother was walking purposeful strides towards her. The relentless sun beating down, our initially purposeful stride declines to a sporadic meander as we ascend the steps. Men and women of various ages and shapes were taking purposeful strides, either walking, jogging, or running. He takes the stage with a stride that's purposeful, elegant, even serene, befitting a Californian who seriously loves surfing, martial arts and fast cars. Up close, she could tell that the two of them could not be much older than her or Alisha, and they both wore a determined and purposeful look. But Kinamori was not fooled by his purposeful stride; rather she became tense with fear and suspicion. They walked in the blazing noonday sun with a new purposeful stride. At the age of 35 he continues to cover the ground with a purposeful stride. It was noticeable that when Phillips, still the pupil, came to that fence, it was surer, the stride more purposeful, the energy of youth omnipotent. Moments later, however, he was once again walking in that slow purposeful stride toward the woods. Taking slow, purposeful strides he took the seat next to Victoria on the bench and wrapped his arms around her; pulling her close to him so she could cry into his shoulder. He set off for the pasture with a purposeful stride. He has always found it easier to look purposeful by striding about on the world stage than by getting stuck into the messy business of domestic politics. Lani strode from the hall, purposeful steps and determined expression a warning to all the servants in the palace. Krys began walking in long, purposeful strides toward S & S. ‘Do you know?’ The purposeful stride of a child-protagonist is shown largely through a close-up of his feet. Synonyms determined, resolute, resolved, firm, steadfast, single-minded 1.1 Having a useful purpose. 有目的的，有益的，有用的 purposeful activities 有益的活动。 Example sentencesExamples Bowen shares several perspectives about combat that are useful and purposeful to the student of warfare. Yet the committee gathered and spent two days in generally useful and purposeful discussions. His way is to embrace all the infinite pointless and impossible acts that surround every useful, purposeful decision. Crisp, purposeful but most importantly useful - almost a personal assistant, perhaps even a personal digital assistant. Remembering may be a spontaneous or purposeful activity. In a climate of political exhaustion, maybe it's time that arts institutions asserted the value of their work, and led policymakers back towards an acknowledgement of art as a purposeful activity in its own right? Communities of practice develop as people engage in shared, purposeful, and patterned activities, which contribute learning. Scientists have long been fascinated by ants because of the extraordinary way they organise themselves into colonies that display purposeful activity. Are some lives, the question essentially goes, to be considered less valuable, less meaningful, less purposeful and hence less worthy of society's protection than others? This is determined by the central place the means and methods occupy in the structure of people's meaningful and purposeful activity. We celebrate because through Jesus Christ we gain access to not just heaven, but to a purposeful and meaningful relationship with Almighty God. Board members found the centre's gym was modern and well-used, providing the main opportunity to get prisoners out of their cells and involved in purposeful activity such as first aid skills. In smaller nursing homes, where low profit margins do not allow the employment of full multidisciplinary teams, patients are subjected to little purposeful activity. It keeps people busy with useful, purposeful work, and that's a good way to form a team. ‘An important aspect of the prison regime is that of rehabilitation and encouraging prisoners in a positive and purposeful activity,’ a spokesman said. What it does mean is that they cannot be given as much education and purposeful activity than if we had fewer prisoners. Learning carpentry, on the other hand, involves purposeful activity and experimentation, a kind of learning that is beyond verbalization. Instead of seeing the organizations as comprising buildings, offices, car parks, rule books, meetings and other forms of purposeful activity, we see these as symbol systems. Emotions like grief, fear and despair are purposeful and useful - if we know how to listen to them. The 241-pupil school is commended for ‘buzzing with purposeful activities and pupils showing a genuine love of learning’. Synonyms valuable, of value, worth it, worth the effort, useful, of use, usable, of service, beneficial, rewarding, advantageous, positive, helpful, of help, of assistance, profitable, gainful, fruitful, productive, constructive, effective, efficacious, effectual, justifiable, significant, important, substantial, meaningful, worthy 1.2 Intentional. 故意的，蓄意的 if his sudden death was not accidental, it must have been purposeful 如果他的猝死不属偶然，那就是蓄意造成的了。 Example sentencesExamples Yet its exhibits, gleaned from some of the world's finest collections, elegantly displayed and labelled, are in essence, works of purposeful, premeditated vandalism. Reflex withdrawal from a painful stimulus is not considered a purposeful response. The only way that this can be achieved, it seems, is by the wilful and purposeful appropriation of Aboriginal narratives by non-indigenous Australians. The conclusion examines the tensions between the idea of strategy as purposeful direction/plan of action and as a zone of complexity. But in this case, I think the problem is more the reporter's innate prejudice than any purposeful intention to smear the U.S. Army. Every move was deliberate and purposeful, almost as if she were executing some sort of martial art act. Some scientific breakthroughs, like Edison's invention of the light bulb, are purposeful and planned. The bombing was a planned, purposeful attack, while the Port Authority was at most negligent in failing to defend its property more carefully. But it would be more correct to say that our consciousness and purposeful behavior results from such natural behavior of energy systems. As a third party, un-involved, I cannot comment on the validity of the actions in question, nor to the motivation of the incident, whether accidental or purposeful in nature. The state calculated the amount of purposeful underpayment by Chevron to be $13.5 million over the thirteen years and the jury agreed. Also complicated are Ana's decision and purposeful plans to lose her virginity. There is no need for any purposeful and deliberate attempt to protect dialects. Unfortunately, the convenient assumption that any rational leader also will be reasonable sets up the observer to miss an opponent's conscious and purposeful moves that are far outside expected norms. We must make conscious, purposeful decisions to take care of other people, the natural environment and ourselves as well. These killings are planned, purposeful, and remorseless. If the situation arose through that person's purposeful negligence, however, then he is considered a purposeful wrongdoer. The term ‘spectator’ as that word is understood in its ordinary sense in context with the statutory terms, is a purposeful, knowing or intentional observer of an event. Without conscious thought and purposeful efforts to hold everything in balance, Americans have always somehow succeeded in doing just that. In fact, these disclosures were significantly more likely to be purposeful, which was defined as the intentional and deliberate report of abuse. Synonyms deliberate, calculated, conscious, done on purpose, intended, planned, meant, considered, studied, knowing, wilful, wanton, purposive, purposed, premeditated, pre-planned, thought out in advance, prearranged, preconceived, predetermined
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