All purposeful synonyms
pur·pose·ful
P p adj purposeful
- directed — proceeding in a straight line or by the shortest course; straight; undeviating; not oblique: a direct route.
- deliberative — A deliberative institution or procedure has the power or the right to make important decisions.
- industrious — working energetically and devotedly; hard-working; diligent: an industrious person.
- active — Someone who is active moves around a lot or does a lot of things.
- determined — If you are determined to do something, you have made a firm decision to do it and will not let anything stop you.
- ambitious — Someone who is ambitious has a strong desire to be successful, rich, or powerful.
- in full swing — to cause to move to and fro, sway, or oscillate, as something suspended from above: to swing one's arms in walking.
- earnest — serious in intention, purpose, or effort; sincerely zealous: an earnest worker.
- grinder — a person or thing that grinds.
- decided — Decided means clear and definite.
- dedicated — You use dedicated to describe someone who enjoys a particular activity very much and spends a lot of time doing it.
- come on strong — If someone comes on strong, they make their intentions or feelings clear in an excessive or aggressive way.
- fireball — Sir Charles George Douglas, 1860–1943, Canadian poet and novelist.
- hard-working — industrious; zealous: a hardworking family man.
- hard as nails — tough, durable
- hyper — overexcited; overstimulated; keyed up.
- goal-oriented — (of a person) focused on reaching a specific objective or accomplishing a given task; driven by purpose: goal-oriented teams of teachers.
- businesslike — If you describe someone as businesslike, you mean that they deal with things in an efficient way without wasting time.
- ball of fire — a very lively person
- aforethought — premeditated (esp in the phrase malice aforethought)
- disciplined — having or exhibiting discipline; rigorous: paintings characterized by a disciplined technique.
- cut and dried — If you say that a situation or solution is cut and dried, you mean that it is clear and definite.
- meaningful — full of meaning, significance, purpose, or value; purposeful; significant: a meaningful wink; a meaningful choice.
- iron-jawed — having a jaw of or like iron: an iron-jawed press; an iron-jawed fighter.
adjective purposeful
- deliberate — If you do something that is deliberate, you planned or decided to do it beforehand, and so it happens on purpose rather than by chance.
- witting — knowing; aware; conscious.
- functional — of or relating to a function or functions: functional difficulties in the administration.
- workaday — of or befitting working days; characteristic of a workday and its occupations.
- designful — full of design or intention
- decisive — If a fact, action, or event is decisive, it makes it certain that there will be a particular result.
- hardboiled — Alternative spelling of hard-boiled.
- dour — sullen; gloomy: The captain's dour look depressed us all.
- coldblooded — having a body temperature that fluctuates, approximating that of the surrounding air, land, or water
- intentional — done with intention or on purpose; intended: an intentional insult.
- willful — deliberate, voluntary, or intentional: The coroner ruled the death willful murder.