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purposefulness

/pur-puhs-fuhl/US // ˈpɜr pəs fəl //UK // (ˈpɜːpəsfʊl) //

目的性,宗旨性,有目的性,目的性强

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : having a purpose.
    • : determined; resolute.
    • : full of meaning; significant.

Synonyms & Antonyms

noundecision

Examples

  • Lown labored for years over purposeful, sustained collaboration between the Cold War superpowers.

  • We’ve been purposeful in working toward the creation of a business that reflects the diversity of its customers.

  • That’s just one example of what David Novak, former CEO of Yum Brands calls “purposeful recognition.”

  • By the time unconscious bias turns to purposeful and aggressive bullying, it is too late.

  • But Letterman had to get to that level of sneaky purposefulness first.

  • There was a solemnity, a wrapped-up purposefulness about him this morning; she dared not ask him what he was going to do.

  • There was a dumb purposefulness about the men's movements that sickened Rhoda.

  • She saw his tenderness, his purposefulness, the bigness of his mind and spirit.

  • It was ugly—ugly in its pink shapelessness, ugly in its slimy half-sentient movements, in its very purposefulness.

  • The rest shifted from deliberate purposefulness to cold fury, and Barr's face turned white.

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