purposes
Reasons for acting
Purposes are aims, intentions, or reasons for doing something: What's the purpose of this meeting?
She did it on purpose.
The phrase for all intents and purposes means in every practical sense.
To no purpose means without effect or result.
Something that serves its purpose accomplishes what it was meant to do.
Purpose or goal
- aimPurpose or direction
- targetObject of pursuit
- ambitionDesire for achievement
- aspirationStrong desire for achievement
destination · endpoint · milestone · achievement · accomplishment · attainment · fulfillment · realization
Quality of mattering
- reasonBasis or justification
- pointExact location or meaning
- sensePerception or judgment
- relevanceState of mattering here
essence · import · substance · value · worth · justification · explanation · rationale
Planned purpose for acting
- motiveReason for action
- designPurposeful creative planning
- planDetailed proposal for achieving
- deliberationCareful weighing of choices
premeditation · willfulness · forethought · volition · calculation · scheme · agenda · ulterior
Operate a vehicle
- impetusForce initiating action
- incentiveReward encouraging action
- inspirationSource of creative impulse
- catalystAgent enabling change
spur · stimulus · determination · resolve · passion · ambition · initiative · reason
Position or part
- utilityFunctional worth or purpose
- usefulnessPractical value or purpose
- practicalityQuality of being useful
- applicationFormal request document
use · service · operation · capacity · task · job · duty · responsibility
objective
Purpose or goal
aspiration · destination · endpoint · milestone · achievement · accomplishment · attainment · fulfillment · realization · completion
significance
Quality of mattering
relevance · essence · import · substance · value · worth · justification · explanation · rationale · understanding
intention
Planned purpose for acting
deliberation · premeditation · willfulness · forethought · volition · calculation · scheme · agenda · ulterior · conscious
drive
Operate a vehicle
- impetusForce initiating action
- incentiveReward encouraging action
- inspirationSource of creative impulse
catalyst · spur · stimulus · determination · resolve · passion · ambition · initiative · reason · cause
role
Position or part
- utilityFunctional worth or purpose
- usefulnessPractical value or purpose
- practicalityQuality of being useful
application · use · service · operation · capacity · task · job · duty · responsibility · functionality
- intentionsgoals, aims, I will, I want, motives
- goalsgoals, goal, aims, objective, objectives
- UN foundingUnited Nations, UN Charter, United Nations Charter, founding members, original members
- Ethics Termsmoral reasoning, moral philosophy, meta-ethics, casuistry, teleology
- Abstractsabstractions, concepts, ideas, properties, qualities
- taskstask, tasks, chore, errand, to-dos
purposesaimlessness
Lack of direction
purposelessness · directionlessness · pointlessness · goallessness · wandering
purposesmeaninglessness
Lack of significance
futility · emptiness · vacuity · hollowness · absurdity
purposesaccidents
Unintended harmful occurrences
chance · coincidences · happenstance · randomness · flukes
- on purposeDone with deliberate intent
- defeat the purposeNegate intended outcome
- for all intents and purposesVirtually, in practice
- all-purpose flourGeneral-use milled wheat
- cross purposesMutually contradictory goals
- accidentally on purposeIntentionally feigning accident
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