on purpose

Speech parts

1. on purpose - Adverb

2. on purpose - Phrase

Meaning

with intention; in an intentional manner

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

deliberately intentionally purposely designedly advisedly by design by choice lief freely voluntarily intentional determinedly wilfully expressly knowingly
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Antonyms

incidentally automatically accidentally randomly mechanically involuntary
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Examples

Nobody makes movies bad on purpose. Roland Emmerich

As there are three of us come on purpose for the game, you won't be so cantankerous as to spoil the party by sitting out. Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Find out who you are and do it on purpose. Dolly Parton

It is my belief that there are "absolutes" in our Bill of Rights, and that they were put there on purpose by men who knew what words meant and meant their prohibitions to be "absolutes." Hugo Black

Oklahoma City bombing was done on purpose. Did you know the Federal Government blew up their own building to blame it on the militias and to get rid of some people that weren't cooperating with the system? Kent Hovind

Not infrequently our GOD brings His people into difficulties on purpose that they may come to know Him as they could not otherwise do. James Hudson Taylor

Words in the phrase

on purpose

Close letter words and terms

on principle on probation on pump on rails on rare form on rare occasions