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Syllable division and stress derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
purposive is an adjective meaning "having or showing or acting with a purpose or design". It carries 2 recorded senses.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for purposive come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.