telic

About 0.12 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective Tending or directed towards a goal or specific end.
2. adjective That expresses an end or purpose.
3. adjective That expresses the perfective aspect.

Similar words

purposeful atelic addressive tendential telocratic motivational goal-orientated telomic teleological telotactic

Often followed by

and verbs state or predicates events event dominance verb

Word family

telically