Usually means: Intentionally, with a specific aim.
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We found 25 dictionaries that define the word purposely:

General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. purposely: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. purposely: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. purposely: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. purposely: Collins English Dictionary
  5. purposely: Vocabulary.com
  6. Purposely, purposely: Wordnik
  7. purposely: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. purposely: Wiktionary
  9. purposely: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. purposely: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. purposely: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. purposely: Dictionary.com
  13. purposely: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Purposely: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. purposely: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. purposely: Rhymezone
  17. Purposely: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. purposely: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. purposely: Free Dictionary
  20. purposely: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. purposely: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  2. purposely: Legal dictionary

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adverb:  On purpose; intentionally.

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