Word Meanings - PURPOSE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. That which a person sets before himself as an object to be reached or accomplished; the end or aim to which the view is directed in any plan, measure, or exertion; view; aim; design; intention; plan. He will his firste purpos modify. Chaucer.

Additional info about word: PURPOSE

1. That which a person sets before himself as an object to be reached or accomplished; the end or aim to which the view is directed in any plan, measure, or exertion; view; aim; design; intention; plan. He will his firste purpos modify. Chaucer. As my eternal purpose hath decreed. Milton. The flighty purpose never is o'ertook Unless the deed go with it. Shak. 2. Proposal to another; discourse. Spenser. 3. Instance; example. L'Estrange. In purpose, Of purpose, On purpose, with previous design; with the mind directed to that object; intentionally. On purpose is the form now generally used. Syn. -- design; end; intention; aim. See Design.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PURPOSE)

• Aim
• Tendency
• intent
• aspiration
• bent
• drift
• object
• scope
• goal
• purpose
• mark
• end
• design
• intention
• Aim Seek
• level
• propose
• affect
• intend
• mean
• Cause
• Source
• origin
• producer
• agent
• creator
• inducement
• reason
• account
• principle
• motive
• suit
• action
• Contemplate
• Meditate
• behold
• observe
• ponder
• study
• project
• Destine
• Purpose
• doom
• ordain
• devote

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of PURPOSE)

• Disesteem
• misestimate
• mystify
• understate
• undervalue
• perplex
• darken
• Roughen
• furrow
• disequalize
• graduate
• Recal
• withdraw
• draw
• retract
• pull
• attract
• rebound
• recoil
• adduce
• revert
• rebate
• Chance
• risk
• hazard
• revoke
• Miscalculate
• venture
• stake

Related words: (words related to PURPOSE)

• CAUSEFUL
  Having a cause.
• DARKEN
  Etym: 1. To make dark or black; to deprite of light; to obscure; as, a darkened room. They covered the face of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened. Ex. x. 15. So spake the Sovran Voice; and clouds began To darken all the hill. Milton.
• CHANCELLERY
  Chancellorship. Gower.
• HAZARDIZE
  A hazardous attempt or situation; hazard. Herself had run into that hazardize. Spenser.
• PROJECTION
  The representation of something; delineation; plan; especially, the representation of any object on a perspective plane, or such a delineation as would result were the chief points of the object thrown forward upon the plane, each in the direction
• DESIGN
  drawing, dessein a plan or scheme; all, ultimately, from L. designare to designate; de- + signare to mark, mark out, signum mark, sign. See 1. To draw preliminary outline or main features of; to sketch for a pattern or model; to delineate; to trace
• REVOKER
  One who revokes.
• INTENTIONALITY
  The quality or state of being intentional; purpose; design. Coleridge.
• OBJECTIVENESS
  Objectivity. Is there such a motion or objectiveness of external bodies, which produceth light Sir M. Hale
• PONDEROUS
  1. Very heavy; weighty; as, a ponderous shield; a ponderous load; the ponderous elephant. The sepulcher . . . Hath oped his ponderous and marble jaws. Shak. 2. Important; momentous; forcible. "Your more ponderous and settled project." Shak. 3.
• ACCOUNTANTSHIP
  The office or employment of an accountant.
• DRIFTBOLT
  A bolt for driving out other bolts.
• DESIGNATE
  Designated; appointed; chosen. Sir G. Buck.
• REVERT
  To change back. See Revert, v. i. To revert a series , to treat a series, as y = a + bx + cx2 + etc., where one variable y is expressed in powers of a second variable x, so as to find therefrom the second variable x, expressed in a series arranged
• SCOPELINE
  Scopeloid.
• AFFECTATIONIST
  One who exhibits affectation. Fitzed. Hall.
• PURPOSELESS
  Having no purpose or result; objectless. Bp. Hall. -- Pur"pose*less*ness, n.
• CONTEMPLATE
  contemplate; con- + templum a space for observation marked out by the 1. To look at on all sides or in all its bearings; to view or consider with continued attention; to regard with deliberate care; to meditate on; to study. To love,
• REASONING
  1. The act or process of adducing a reason or reasons; manner of presenting one's reasons. 2. That which is offered in argument; proofs or reasons when arranged and developed; course of argument. His reasoning was sufficiently profound. Macaulay.
• VENTURESOME
  Inclined to venture; not loth to run risk or danger; venturous; bold; daring; adventurous; as, a venturesome boy or act. -- Ven"ture*some*ly, adv. -- Ven"ture*some*ness, n.
• DISVENTURE
  A disadventure. Shelton.
• INDEVOTE
  Not devoted. Bentley. Clarendon.
• EQUIPONDERANCE; EQUIPONDERANCY
  Equality of weight; equipoise.
• HAEMATOSCOPE
  A hæmoscope.
• SADDUCEEISM; SADDUCISM
  The tenets of the Sadducees.
• UNPERPLEX
  To free from perplexity. Donne.
• LACTOSCOPE
  An instrument for estimating the amount of cream contained in milk by ascertaining its relative opacity.
• METEOROSCOPE
  An astrolabe; a planisphere. An instrument for measuring the position, length, and direction, of the apparent path of a shooting star.
• INTERAGENT
  An intermediate agent.
• OVERAFFECT
  To affect or care for unduly. Milton.