unpurposedとは 意味・読み方・使い方

形容詞

unpurposed (comparative more unpurposed, superlative most unpurposed)

1. Without purpose.

   Synonyms: aimless, goalless, purposeless

   • Template:RQ:Milton Tetrachordon
   • 1917, Sinclair Lewis, The Job, New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co., Part I, Chapter 5, §3, p. 60,^[1]

     He was distinguished from his fellows by the fact that each year he grew more aware that he hadn’t even a dim candle of talent; that he was ill-planned and unpurposed; that he would have to settle down to the ordinary gray limbo of jobs and offices […]

   • 1957, Muriel Spark, The Comforters, London: Macmillan, Chapter 7,

     ‘Your questions about Mrs Jepp, I can’t possibly answer them, ‘said Mervyn, looking at his watch but unpurposed, settling into his chair […]

2. Not deliberate.

   Synonyms: inadvertent, undesigned, unintended, unintentional; see also Thesaurus:unintentional

   • c. 1606–1607, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act IV, scene xiv]:

     When I did make thee free, sworest thou not then
     To do this when I bade thee? Do it at once;
     Or thy precedent services are all
     But accidents unpurposed.