Synonyms and Antonyms of purposeful
1
fully committed to achieving a goal
- a 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, vehement
certain, cocksure, confident, positive, sure
earnest, serious
steady, unfaltering, unhesitating, unswerving, unwavering
adamant, 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)
distrustful, doubtful, dubious, mistrustful, skeptical, suspicious, uncertain, unconvinced, undecided, unsettled, unsure
disinclined, indisposed, loath (also loth), reluctant
2
made, given, or done with full awareness of what one is doing
- there'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, planned
conscious
advised, calculated, considered, measured, reasoned, studied, thoughtful, weighed
premeditated, premeditative, prepense
discretionary, elective, optional, volunteer
inadvertent, unwitting
accidental, chance, haphazard, hit-or-miss, incidental, random
aimless, desultory, purposeless
abrupt, impetuous, sudden
coerced, forced, involuntary
compulsory, mandatory, necessary, nonelective, obligatory, ordered, required
casual
extemporaneous, impromptu, impulsive, instinctive, spontaneous, unforced, unpremeditated
