PURPOSEFULLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does purposefully mean? 

• PURPOSEFULLY (adverb)
  The adverb PURPOSEFULLY has 1 sense:

1. in a purposeful manner

  Familiarity information: PURPOSEFULLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PURPOSEFULLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In a purposeful manner

Context example:

he caught the motorcycles in the full glare of his headlights, braked and slipped purposefully out of the car

Pertainym:

purposeful (serving as or indicating the existence of a purpose or goal)

 Context examples 

Dinitrophenol was once used as diet remedy to lose weight without exercise or diet, but this compound is a metabolic poison and resulted in deaths in when purposefully given to humans.

(Electron Transport Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

Device packaging that has been opened purposefully or inadvertently thus exposing the device to the outside environment and rendering it unsterile or unclean (e.g. a broken seal or ripped or torn packaging).

(Device Packaging Compromised Evaluation Result Evaluation Result, Food and Drug Administration)

The poem’s interpretation as a prophecy of the end of the pagan gods and their replacement by the one, singular god, suggests that memories of this terrible volcanic eruption were purposefully provoked to stimulate the Christianisation of Iceland.

(Volcanic eruption influenced Iceland’s conversion to Christianity, University of Cambridge)