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purposefuladjective fully committed to achieving a goala soft-spoken but purposeful criminal investigator bent (on or upon), bound, decisive, determined, do-or-die, firm, hell-bent (on or upon), intent, out, resolute, resolved, set, single-minded bitter, vehementcertain, cocksure, confident, positive, sureearnest, serioussteady, unfaltering, unhesitating, unswerving, unwaveringadamant, adamantine, dogged, hard, hardened, hardheaded, headstrong, immovable, implacable, inflexible, mulish, obdurate, persistent, pertinacious, perverse, pigheaded, rigid, self-willed, stubborn, tenacious, unbending, uncompromising, unrelenting, unyielding, willful(or wilful) on one's mettle faltering, hesitant, indecisive, irresolute, undetermined, unresolved, vacillating, wavering, weak-kneed distrustful, doubtful, dubious, mistrustful, skeptical, suspicious, uncertain, unconvinced, undecided, unsettled, unsuredisinclined, indisposed, loath(also loth or loathe), reluctant made, given, or done with full awareness of what one is doingthere's a difference between a purposeful lie and an accidental untruth conscious, deliberate, intended, intentional, knowing, purposive, set, voluntary, willed, willful(or wilful), witting designed, plannedadvised, calculated, considered, measured, reasoned, studied, thoughtful, weighedpremeditated, premeditative, prepensediscretionary, elective, optional, volunteer nondeliberate, nonpurposive, unintentional inadvertent, unwittingaccidental, chance, haphazard, hit-or-miss, incidental, randomaimless, desultory, purposelessabrupt, impetuous, suddencoerced, forced, involuntarycompulsory, mandatory, necessary, nonelective, obligatory, ordered, requiredcasualextemporaneous, impromptu, impulsive, instinctive, spontaneous, unforced, unpremeditated in 1853 |