Purposive is valid Scrabble Word

Is purposive a scrabble word?
Official Scrabble Players Dictionary YES
Official Tournament and Club Word List YES
Collins Scrabble Words YES
Is purposive valid Words with Friends?
Words with Friends YES

9 letters word
16 points in Scrabble
20 points in WWF

Definitions for PURPOSIVE in dictionary:

ADJECTIVE:

directed towards an end
having or done with a purpose
having or showing a definite intention
Having or indicating purpose or design.
having or showing or acting with a purpose or design
having a purpose

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

serving or effecting a useful function though not as a result of planning or design

Words related to PURPOSIVE

purposively21 purposiveness20

Words that contain PURPOSIVE

purposively21 nonpurposive19 purposiveness20 purposivenesses22

How to use PURPOSIVE in a sentence

To the Humanist the best definition of life is one which displays it as throughout purposive, as a rational pursuit of ends.
He entered school and meets with the first obligation, with the first necessity for a well-regulated, purposive existence.
His lack of stability, his inability for any continuous purposive effort, made him slip from under the stress.
If each one of the small steps is purposive the result is purposive, though there was never purpose extended over more than one, two, or perhaps at most three steps at a time.
According to the older Darwinism the lungs are just as purposive as the corkscrew.
Life and Habit was followed in 1879 by Evolution Old and New, wherein he compared the teleological or purposive view of evolution taken by Buffon, Dr.
Among the participants in the revolutionary process, the far-seeing, imaginative, perceptive and mature develop into purposive revolutionaries.
These laws apply in all cases of habit formation, whether they be the purposeless habits of children or the purposive habits of maturity.
Purposive selection pursues its ends more directly and in general attains them far more quickly than does natural selection.
In all these respects the conflict of ideas belongs to the level of purposive and not of natural selection.

And in the conflict of ideas, whether moral or intellectual, the issue is determined by a selection which is predominantly purposive, and only in the slightest degree natural.
If we return to the conflict of groups we shall see that even there purposive selection enters.
An animal devoid of the feelings of pleasure and of pain, may nevertheless exhibit all the effects of sensation and purposive action.

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