Dictionary

planful en · ADJ

Etymology

From plan + -ful.

Meanings

1. Having (many) plans.
2. Intentional.
   • Is an infant who delights in such repetitive actions as swatting a brightly colored mobile or making a toy duck quack engaging in planful or intentional behavior? Piaget said no: the secondary circular reaction is not a fully intentional response, because the interesting result it produces was discovered by chance and was not a purposeful goal the first time the action was performed. 2013, David R. Shaffer, Katherine Kipp, Developmental Psychology: Childhood and Adolescence, page 207:

Forms

Deriveds

planfulness · planfully