purposive

/ˈpəːpəsɪv/

US pronunciation

American sound/ˈpəːpəsɪv/

purposive

Syllables: 3 syllables
Stress: 1st syllable stress
Vowel: Schwa vowel
Ending: Final e often stays silent

pur - po - sive -> purposive

Myanmar meaning

ရည်ရွယ်ချက်ဖြင့် ပြုလုပ်သော။ ရည်ရွယ်ချက်ရှိသော။ စိတ်ကို ဆုံးဖြတ်ထားသော။

Full entry

purpose /'pɜ:pǝs/ n

၁။ [C] (က) ရည်ရွယ်ချက်။ အကြောင်း။ လိုအပ်ချက်။ အသုံးဝင်ပုံ။ What is the purpose of the meeting? ❍ Getting rich seems to be her only purpose in life. ❍ The building is no longer used for its original purpose. ❍ a dual-purpose tool (ie with two different functions) ❍ He went to her house with the sole purpose of threatening her. ❍ We have found an office that will serve our purpose. (ခ) purposes [pl] (ကိစ္စ၊ အကြောင်းအရာတစ်ရပ်) အလို့ငှာ။ These gifts count as income for tax purposes. ❍ for administrative/ medical/ insurance purposes ❍ For the purposes of our argument, let us assume that sales rise by 5%.
၂။ [U] (က) စိတ်ကျေနပ်မှု။ အရာရောက်မှု။ Her work for charity gives a sense of purpose to her life. (ခ) (fml ) ရည်မှန်းချက်။ သန္နိဋ္ဌာန်ချမှု။ Her approach to the job lacks purpose.
❏ on purpose [IDM ] တမင်တကာ။ သက်သက်။ ‘Was it broken accidentally?’ ‘No, he did it on purpose. ’ ❍ She does these things on purpose to annoy me.
❏ purpose-built adj (esp Brit ) သတ်သတ်မှတ်မှတ် လုပ်ငန်းတစ်ရပ်အတွက် ဆောက်လုပ်ထားသော။ a purpose-built factory/ stadium.
❏ purposeful /-fl/ adj (က) စိတ်ပိုင်းဖြတ်ချက် ခိုင်မာသော။ ဟုတ်တိပတ်တိ [လုပ်သော]။ They set about dealing with the problem in a purposeful way. (ခ) (fml ) အကျိုးရှိသော။ Young people's energies should be directed towards more purposeful activities. purposefully /-fǝli/ adv : He strode purposefully into the meeting.
❏ purposeless adj မရေရာသော။ အဓိပ္ပာယ်ကင်းမဲ့သော။ a purposeless existence.
❏ purposely adv တမင်တကာ။ တမင်သက်သက်။ He was being purposely slow.
❏ purposive /'pɜ:pǝsÇv/ adj (fml ) ရေရာပြတ်သားသော။ acting in a purposive manner.
❏ to little/ no/ some purpose [IDM ](fml ) အရာမရောက် ဘဲ။ အလဟဿ။ အဟောသိကံ။ Money has been invested in the scheme to very little/ to no useful purpose.

More examples

I use my boat mainly for leisure purposes.
[purpose of] : The purpose of this dictionary is to help students of English.
[the purpose of doing something] : The President’s trip will have the purpose of negotiating a peace deal.
[for the purpose of doing something] : He went there for the purpose of making business contacts.
[someone’s purpose in doing something] : Her sole purpose in being here was to kill some time.
[suit someone’s purpose] : You must decide which method suits your purpose best.
[serve a purpose] : Another meeting would serve absolutely no purpose.
[defeat the purpose of something] : Exercising for too long defeats the purpose of doing exercise in the first place.
Now his life lacks purpose.
[a sense of purpose] : The course gave her a new sense of purpose.
We need to know how to use our available resources to good purpose.
Regular reading is not only to good effect for your mind but also works to good purpose for your success as a journalist of repute.

Synonyms

reason, point, idea, principle, rationale, function, use, advantage, aim, aimlessly, ambition, animus, aspiration, aspire, at random, avail, benefit, bid for, big idea, blindly, bourn, calculation, commit, commitment, conclude, confidence, consider, constancy, contemplate, decide, dedication, design, desire, destination, determination, determine, devotion, direction, dream, drift, drive, duty, effect, end, expectation, faith, firmness, gain, goal, good, have a mind to, have in view, hope, in all directions, indiscriminately, intend, intendment, intent, intention, make up one's mind, mark, mean, meaning, mecca, meditate, mind, mission, object, objective, outcome, perseverance, persistence, plan, ponder, premeditation, profit, project, proposal, propose, proposition, prospect, purposefulness, purposelessly, pursue, resolution, resolve, result, return, scheme, scope, single-mindedness, steadfastness, target, tenacity, think to, ulterior motive, utility, view, whatfor, where one's headed, whole idea, why and wherefore, whyfor, will, wish, work for, work toward

Antonyms

begin, beginning, cause, disadvantage, discard, dislike, dismiss, disregard, doubt, forget, hate, hatred, hesitate, ignore, indifference, instability, loss, neglect, origin, reject, source, start, stop, uncertainty, wait, waver, weakness