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Definition: Purposefully |
PurposefullyAdverb1. In a purposeful manner; "he caught the motorcycles in the full glare of his headlights, braked and slipped purposefully out of the car". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "purposefully" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1900. (references) |
Crosswords: Purposefully |
| English words defined with "purposefully": assorted ♦ leading ♦ make a point, make sure ♦ various. (references) |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Human Rights | Israel and the occupied territories | For example, on February 14, a Palestinian driving a bus purposefully rammed into a bus stop south of Tel Aviv, killing eight persons. (references) |
Croatia | Local housing commissions, to which the vast majority of cases were referred, often were purposefully dysfunctional and failed to resolve housing disputes, or when functional were powerless legally to implement their own decisions under an existing legal framework that remained unaddressed by the Government. (references) | |
Russia | There were some reports that federal troops purposefully targeted some infrastructure essential to the survival of the civilian population, such as water facilities or hospitals. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Purposefully" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Purposefully" is used about 156 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adverb (general) | 100% | 156 | 25,144 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "purposefully": travel purposefully. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| Language | Translations for "purposefully"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Albanian | me qëllim (advisedly, by design, deliberately, designedly, expressly, hard, intentional, intently, knowingly, meaningly, objective, on purpose, purposely, with an eye to, wittingly), me dashje (by design, conscious, consciously, fain, knowingly, on purpose, prepense, purposely, voluntary, wittingly). (various references) | ||||
Chinese | 有目的地. (various references) | ||||
German | absichtlich (advisedly, conscious, consciously, deliberate, deliberately, designedly, intentional, intentionally, knowingly, on purpose, puposely, purposeful, purposely, studied, studiedly, studiously, wilful, willful), zielbewusste. (various references) | ||||
Korean | 목 이 있. (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | urposefullypay | ||||
Misspellings | |
"Purposefully" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: purposedfully, purposefull. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "purposefully" (pronounced per"pusfulē) |
| 5 | -s f u l ē | blissfully, forcefully, gracefully, peacefully, successfully, unsuccessfully, usefully. |
| 4 | -f u l ē | anencephaly, artfully, carefully, cheerfully, delightfully, dreadfully, dutifully, faithfully, fitfully, frightfully, gainfully, gleefully, gratefully, helpfully, hopefully, joyfully, lawfully, manfully, masterfully, meaningfully, mercifully, painfully, pitifully, playfully, regretfully, respectfully, rightfully, ruefully, skillfully, tactfully, tastefully, tearfully, thankfully, thoughtfully, truthfully, unlawfully, wilfully, willfully, wishfully, wistfully, woefully, wonderfully, wrongfully. |
| 3 | -u l ē | abnormally, abysmally, accidentally, actually, additionally, agriculturally, anecdotally, angrily, annually, anomaly, arbitrarily, architecturally, artificially, beneficially, bilaterally, bodily, botanically, broccoli, brutally, busily, casually, centrally, cerebrally, chronically, Cicely, circumstantially, civilly, clinically, clumsily, coincidentally, comically, commercially, conceptually, conditionally, confidentially, congressionally, conspiratorially, constitutionally, continentally, continually, contractually, contradictorily, conventionally, cordially, crazily, criminally, critically, culturally, customarily, cynically, developmentally, diagonally, diametrically, digitally, dismally, diurnally, dorsally, easily, editorially, educationally, eerily, electrically, electronically, emotionally, empirically, environmentally, equally, essentially, eternally, ethically, eventually, exceptionally, experimentally, exponentially, externally, extraordinarily, facsimile, factually, family, fanatically, fatally, federally, finally, financially, fiscally, florally, formally, fractionally, frantically, frugally, functionally, fundamentally, generally, generationally, geographically, giggly, globally, gloomily, governmentally, gradually, gravelly, gravitationally, greedily, habitually, handily, happily, hastily, haughtily, heartily, heavily, hermetically, historically, homily, horizontally, hungrily, icily, illegally, impartially, incidentally, incrementally, individually, industrially, informally, initially, institutionally, intellectually, intentionally, internally, internationally, intrinsically, involuntarily, irrationally, jauntily, journalistically, judicially, lazily, legally, liberally, literally, locally, loyally, luckily, magically, magnetically, majestically, manually, marginally, materially, mathematically, medicinally, mentally, merrily, methodically, metrically, mightily, militarily, mineralogically, minimally, momentarily, monetarily, monopoly, monumentally, morally, mortally, multifamily, multilaterally, municipally, mutually, nasally, nationally, nattily, naturally, necessarily, noisily, nominally, normally, novelly, nutritionally, occasionally, officially, oligopoly, operationally, optimistically, orally, orchestrally, ordinarily, originally, parenthetically, partially, pathetically, perennially, periodically, peripherally, perpetually, personally, phenomenally, philosophically, physically, politically, potentially, pragmatically, preferentially, preliminarily, presidentially, primarily, procedurally, professionally, proportionally, provincially, provisionally, quintessentially, racially, radially, rationally, readily, regally, regionally, ritualistically, romantically, royally, sardonically, satisfactorily, scantily, scientifically, seasonally, secondarily, semiannually, sequentially, serenely, severally, sexually, skeptically, sleepily, sloppily, socially, specially, speedily, spiritually, statistically, statutorily, steadily, steamily, structurally, subfamily, subliminally, substantially, subtly, summarily, supremely, surgically, symbolically, sympathetically, tactically, tangentially, technically, technologically, temperamentally, temporally, temporarily, terminally, territorially, testily, theatrically, theoretically, therapeutically, totally, traditionally, Tripoli, uncannily, unconditionally, unconstitutionally, uncritically, uneasily, unequivocally, unhappily, unilaterally, unintentionally, universally, unnaturally, unnecessarily, unofficially, unusually, usually, virtually, viscerally, visually, vitally, vocally, voluntarily, warily, wearily, wiggly, wittily, wobbly. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-f-l-l-o-p-p-r-s-u-u-y" | |
-2 letters: purposeful. | |
-3 letters: leprously, profusely, purposely. | |
-4 letters: floppers, resupply, ruefully, sulfuryl, supplely, usefully, yourself. | |
-5 letters: elusory, flopper, foppery, fullers, fullery, leprosy, leprous, loppers, ourself, pelorus, pollers, polypus, profuse, propels, propyls, pullers, pulleys, pullups, pulpers, pulpous, purfles, purples, purpose, pylorus, pyropes, repolls, soulful, sporule, sulfury, suppler, uprouse. | |
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