on purpose

on purpose

English

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Prepositional phrase

on purpose

1. (idiomatic) By design, as opposed to by accident; intentionally; deliberately. [from 16th c.]

   Synonyms: deliberately, intentionally, purposefully, willfully

   Antonyms: by accident, on accident

   That wasn't an accident! You did it on purpose!

2. (now rare) In order to (do something); with the objective that. [from 16th c.]
   • 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling:

     Blifil bowed and stammered, and looked like a fool; but Western, without giving him time to form a speech for the purpose, answered, “Well, well, I am to blame, if you will, I always am, certainly; but come, let the girl be fetched back again, or let Mr Blifil go to her.——He’s come up on purpose, and there is no time to be lost.”

   • 1792, Charlotte Smith, Desmond, Broadview 2001, p. 260:

     I send this to the town, on purpose to have it reach you by the earliest post […] .

Translations

purposely, with intention

Arabic: عَمْدًا‎ (ʿamdan) Hijazi Arabic: بِالعَمد‎ (bi-l-ʿamd), بِالقَصد‎ (bi-l-gaṣd) Armenian: դիտմամբ (hy) (ditmamb) Basque: nahita (eu) Belarusian: наўмы́сна (naŭmýsna), знаро́к (znarók), наўмы́сля (naŭmýslja) Bulgarian: наро́чно (bg) (naróčno) Catalan: a propòsit, expressament (ca), a posta (ca) Chinese: Mandarin: 故意的 (zh) (gùyì-de) Czech: schválně (cs) Danish: med vilje, med fuldt overlæg Dutch: expres (nl), opzettelijk (nl), met voorbedachten rade (nl) (formal), met opzet Finnish: tarkoituksella (fi), tahallisesti (fi), tahallaan (fi), tarkoituksellisesti (fi) French: exprès (fr), à dessein (fr) German: mit Absicht, absichtlich (de), vorsätzlich (de), extra (de), bewusst (de), mit Vorbedacht Greek: επίτηδες (el) (epítides) Hebrew: דַּוְקָא‎ (he) (dávka) Hungarian: szándékosan (hu), direkt (hu), szántszándékkal, készakarva (hu) Icelandic: viljandi, af ásettu ráði, að yfirlögðu ráði, vísvitandi Italian: di proposito, apposta (it), intenzionalmente (it) Japanese: 故意に (ja) (こいに, koi ni), わざと (ja) (wazato) Korean: 일부러 (ko) (ilbureo) Latin: consultō Norwegian: med vilje, med overlegg Persian: عمدا‎ (fa) ('amdan), از قصد‎ (az qasd), دانسته‎ (fa) (dâneste) Polish: specjalnie (pl), celowo (pl), umyślnie (pl), naumyślnie, z rozmysłem Portuguese: de propósito (pt), propositadamente, propositalmente, intencionalmente (pt) Romanian: cu intenție, intențional (ro) Russian: наме́ренно (ru) (namérenno), наро́чно (ru) (naróčno), созна́тельно (ru) (soznátelʹno), специа́льно (ru) (speciálʹno) Scottish Gaelic: a dh'aon ghnothach Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: на́мјерно (Ijekavian), на́мерно (Ekavian) Roman: námjerno (sh) (Ijekavian), námerno (Ekavian) Slovene: nalašč, namerno, namenoma, zanalašč Spanish: adrede (es), a propósito (es), a conciencia, intencionalmente, intencionadamente, queriendo (es) Sranan Tongo: espresi Swahili: kwa kusudi Swedish: med flit (sv), med vilje (sv), med mening n, avsiktlig (sv) Telugu: కావాలని (kāvālani) Turkish: bilerek (tr) Ukrainian: навми́сне (navmýsne), наро́ком (narókom)

See also

• malice aforethought
• purposefully