Use 'purposive' when actions are taken with a specific goal, not by accident or randomly.

Action With Purpose

'Purposive' suggests actions based on logic and planning, not emotional impulses.

Not Based on Emotion

In academic contexts, 'purposive' indicates a well-thought-out method or analysis.

Academic Writing

 where he talks about everything being purposive in the Web -- there's nothing artificial. He has this line where he says, you know, you're going to put up a link there, if you see a link, somebody decided to put it there. And he says, the link to one site didn't just grow on the other page "like a tree fungus."