Synonyms of on purpose

on purpose

phrase

as in intentionally

with full awareness of what one is doing

I'm sorry, but I didn't knock the vase over on purpose.

Synonyms & Similar Words

• intentionally
• deliberately
• purposely
• purposefully
• purposively
• consciously
• voluntarily
• knowingly
• willingly
• willfully
• designedly
• advisedly
• wittingly
• premeditatedly
• calculatedly
• studiedly

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• inadvertently
• unconsciously
• incidentally
• accidentally
• unwittingly
• randomly
• unintentionally
• unknowingly
• instinctively
• involuntarily
• spontaneously
• haphazardly
• unwillingly
• impulsively

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of on purpose

The rooms that work, these designers agree, are the ones where every decision is made on purpose, and confidently. — Julia Harrison, Architectural Digest, 7 July 2026

Twenty years later, that experiment is a global brand doing hundreds of millions in revenue, and the wrapper still looks unevenly broken on purpose, a small reminder of the inequality the whole company exists to fix. — Afdhel Aziz, Forbes.com, 7 July 2026

The music is low, and RooftopKC is reservation-only on purpose to keep the new spot relaxed. — Katelyn Umholtz, Kansas City Star, 6 July 2026

But as Chief Justice Roberts observed, the men who wrote the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution after the Civil War defined citizenship in broad terms on purpose, rejecting the views of those who wanted to limit citizenship. — Nina Totenberg, NPR, 30 June 2026