purpose-made

1. 1.

   designed and constructed to serve a particular purpose

   Synonymspurpose-built

   Similarpurposeful

Questions about purpose-made

What does purpose-made mean?

purpose-made means "designed and constructed to serve a particular purpose".

How many syllables are in purpose-made?

purpose-made has 4 syllables: pur-po-se--made. The stress falls on "po".

What is another word for purpose-made?

Close synonyms include purpose-built. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is purpose-made a common word?

purpose-made is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.