1. purpose

noun. ['ˈpɝːpəs'] an anticipated outcome that is intended or that guides your planned actions.

Rhymes with Purpose

• bippus
• bumpus
• campus
• chapas
• chiapas
• compas
• compass
• coppess
• copus
• corpus
• defilippis
• encompass
• eohippus
• gyrocompass
• hippocampus
• hospice
• kappus
• lapis
• lupus
• malpass

How do you pronounce purpose?

Pronounce purpose as ˈpərpəs.

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How do you spell purpose? Is it pourpose ?

A common misspelling of purpose is pourpose

Sentences with purpose

1. Noun, singular or mass
Throw rugs are easy additions that warm up a room and serve a functional purpose as well.

Quotes about purpose

1. What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing that it is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.
- Margaret Thatcher

2. Inner-life questions are the kind everyone asks, with or without benefit of God-talk: 'Does my life have meaning and purpose?' 'Do I have gifts that the world wants and needs?' 'Whom and what shall I serve?' 'Whom and what can I trust?' 'How can I rise above my fears?'
- Parker Palmer

3. The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.
- Rainer Maria Rilke

2. cross-purpose

noun. a contrary aim.

3. purpose-built

adjective. designed and constructed to serve a particular purpose.

4. purpose-made

adjective. designed and constructed to serve a particular purpose.

5. all-purpose

adjective. ['ˈɔlˈpɝːpəs'] not limited in use or function.

6. general-purpose

adjective. not limited in use or function.

7. purpose

noun. ['ˈpɝːpəs'] what something is used for.

8. purpose

noun. ['ˈpɝːpəs'] the quality of being determined to do or achieve something; firmness of purpose.

9. purpose

verb. ['ˈpɝːpəs'] propose or intend.

10. purpose

verb. ['ˈpɝːpəs'] reach a decision.