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purposeful
Synonyms and Antonyms of purposeful
1
fully committed to achieving a goal
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
2
made, given, or done with full awareness of what one is doing
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