Usually means: Intentional and focused on goals.
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We found 26 dictionaries that define the word Purposeful:

General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. purposeful: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. purposeful: Merriam-Webster
  3. purposeful: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. purposeful: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. purposeful: Collins English Dictionary
  6. purposeful: Vocabulary.com
  7. Purposeful, purposeful: Wordnik
  8. purposeful: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. purposeful: Wiktionary
  10. purposeful: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. purposeful: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. purposeful: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Purposeful, purposeful: Dictionary.com
  14. purposeful: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Purposeful: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. purposeful: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. purposeful: Rhymezone
  18. purposeful: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. purposeful: FreeDictionary.org
  20. purposeful: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. purposeful: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. purposeful: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. purposeful: Legal dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Purposeful: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (purposeful)

▸ adjective:  Having purpose; intentional.
▸ adjective:  Having a purpose in mind; resolute; determined.

Similar:
goal-directed, purposive, purpose-built, meaningful, businesslike, leading, earnest, purpose-made, purposed, wilful, more...

Opposite:
random, arbitrary, haphazard, unplanned, fortuitous

Types:
teleological, teleonomic, teleomatic, more...

Phrases:
purposeful movement, purposeful journey, a purposeful or industrious undertaking, purposeful mistake, purposeful silence, more...

Colors:
    indigo,     navy blue,     royal blue,     forest green,     burgundy, more...



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Similar:
goal-directed, purposive, purpose-built, meaningful, businesslike, leading, earnest, purpose-made, purposed, wilful, more...

Opposite:
random, arbitrary, haphazard, unplanned, fortuitous

Types:
teleological, teleonomic, teleomatic, more...

Phrases:
purposeful movement, purposeful journey, a purposeful or industrious undertaking, purposeful mistake, purposeful silence, purposeful clearing of the throat, purposeful ignorance, purposeful deception, more...

Colors:
    indigo,     navy blue,     royal blue,     forest green,     burgundy, more...



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