purposive

英語（米国） (en-US) 英語（イギリス） (en-GB)

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈpəːpəsɪv/

形容詞

Serving a particular purpose; adapted to a given purpose, especially through natural evolution. / Done or performed with a conscious purpose or intent.

日本語の意味

特定の目的に合わせて設計または自然進化的に適応された / 明確な意図や目的を持って実施された

英語の意味

Serving a particular purpose; adapted to a given purpose, especially through natural evolution. / Done or performed with a conscious purpose or intent.

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The architect designed a purposive layout that maximized natural light in every room.

建築家は、各部屋で自然光を最大限に取り入れる目的にかなったレイアウトを設計した。

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意味（1）

Serving a particular purpose; adapted to a given purpose, especially through natural evolution.

Irresistably it came to me again that beauty, far from being wasted, was purposive, that this purpose was of a redeeming kind, and that some one who was pleased co-operated with it for my personal benefit.

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意味（2）

Done or performed with a conscious purpose or intent.

It would have been quite impossible to use the A vocabulary for literary purposes or for political or philosophical discussion. It was intended only to express simple, purposive thoughts, usually involving concrete objects or physical actions.

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意味（3）

(psychology) Pertaining to purpose, as reflected in behaviour or mental activity.

Ursula could not believe the air in her nostrils. It seemed conscious, malevolent, purposive in its intense murderous coldness.

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意味（4）

Pertaining to or demonstrating purpose.

The world was generally agreed to be a purposive one, responsive to the wishes of its Creator […].

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意味（5）

Possessed of a firm purpose.

Whenever she opened a scientific book and saw whole paragraphs of incomprehensible words and symbols, she felt a sense of wonder at the great territories of learning that lay beyond her—the sum of so many noble and purposive attempts to make objective sense of the world.

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意味（6）

(grammar) Of a clause or conjunction: expressing purpose.

Many scholars suggest that […] the increase in the use of the to-infinitive in Middle English took place at the expense of the bare infinitive (i.e. an infinitive without the marker to). […] due to the loss of verbal inflections, it became difficult to distinguish the infinitival form from other verbal forms. As a result […] to began to function as a mere marker of the infinitive, losing its original ‘purposive’ sense […]

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more purposive （ comparative ）

most purposive （ superlative ）