Term: cross-purpose: a contrary aim
Broader: purpose: an anticipated outcome that is intended or that guides your planned actions | Unrelated: anacoluthia: an abrupt change within a sentence from one syntactic structure to another
Broader: purpose: an anticipated outcome that is intended or that guides your planned actions | Unrelated: movement: the driving and regulating parts of a mechanism (as of a watch or clock)
Broader: purpose: an anticipated outcome that is intended or that guides your planned actions | Unrelated: wool grass: sedge of eastern North America having numerous clustered woolly spikelets
Broader: purpose: an anticipated outcome that is intended or that guides your planned actions | Unrelated: development: processing a photosensitive material in order to make an image visible
Broader: purpose: an anticipated outcome that is intended or that guides your planned actions | Unrelated: lymph node: the source of lymph and lymphocytes
Broader: purpose: an anticipated outcome that is intended or that guides your planned actions | Unrelated: floating-point operation: an arithmetic operation performed on floating-point numbers
Broader: purpose: an anticipated outcome that is intended or that guides your planned actions | Unrelated: verbolatry: the worship of words
Broader: purpose: an anticipated outcome that is intended or that guides your planned actions | Unrelated: whistling: the act of whistling a tune
Broader: purpose: an anticipated outcome that is intended or that guides your planned actions | Unrelated: american agave: widely cultivated American monocarpic plant with greenish-white flowers on a tall stalk; blooms only after ten to twenty years and then dies
Broader: purpose: an anticipated outcome that is intended or that guides your planned actions | Unrelated: alpine ash: tall timber tree with hard heavy pinkish or light brown wood