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purposeful
Synonyms and Antonyms of purposeful
- a soft-spoken but purposeful criminal investigator
certain, cocksure, confident, positive, sure
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)
on one's mettle
distrustful, doubtful, dubious, mistrustful, skeptical, suspicious, uncertain, unconvinced, undecided, unsettled, unsure
disinclined, indisposed, loath (also loth), reluctant
- There's a difference between a purposeful lie and an accidental untruth.
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