on purpose
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Prepositional phrase[edit]
- (idiomatic) With purpose; intentionally; purposely.
- Synonym: deliberately
- Antonyms: by accident, on accident
- That wasn't an accident! You did it on purpose!
- (archaic) For the purpose; for that specific reason.
- 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.”
Translations[edit]
purposely, with intention