purposefully

1. 1.

   in a purposeful manner

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

Questions about purposefully

What does purposefully mean?

purposefully means "in a purposeful manner".

How many syllables are in purposefully?

purposefully has 4 syllables: pur-pose-ful-ly. The stress falls on "pur". In IPA it is /ˈpɝpəsfəli/.

Is purposefully a common word?

purposefully is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.