Tending toward an outcome

• Directed toward an end
• Purposeful
• Tending toward a definite goal
• Expressing purpose
• Goal-oriented
• Purposive
• Tending to a definite end

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Telic , a purposeful or defined action, may refer to: Grammatically, indicating telicity A central argument of Teleology says that the world has clearly been constructed in a purposeful telic rather than a chaotic manner, and must therefore have been made ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 (context grammar English) expressing end or purpose. 2 (context linguistics English) perfective aspect. 3 tending towards a goal or definite end.