Another word for purpose

Advantage, ambition, aim, design, and contemplate are another word for purpose. Insignificance and irrelevancy are the opposites of purpose. On this page, find 89 synonyms for purpose, parts of speech, and examples of purpose sentences.

Purpose synonyms

1. reason

  • Advantage
  • Aim
  • Ambition
  • Aspiration
  • Avail
  • Basis
  • Behoof
  • Benefit
  • Boot
  • Cause
  • Desire
  • Effect
  • End
  • Function
  • Gain
  • Goal
  • Good
  • Grounds
  • Hope
  • Impetus
  • Intention
  • Justification
  • Merit
  • Mileage
  • Motivation
  • Motive
  • Object
  • Objective
  • Occasion
  • Outcome
  • Percentage
  • Plan
  • Point
  • Profit
  • Reason
  • Result
  • Scheme
  • Target
  • Use
  • Usefulness
  • Value
  • Wish
  • Worth
  • Role

2. determination

  • Ambition
  • Backbone
  • Commitment
  • Conviction
  • Dedication
  • Determination
  • Drive
  • Enterprise
  • Enthusiasm
  • Firmness (of purpose)
  • Initiative
  • Motivation
  • Push
  • Resoluteness
  • Resolution
  • Resolve
  • Single-mindedness
  • Steadfastness
  • Thrust
  • Get-up-and-go

3. verb

  • Aim
  • Aspire
  • Contemplate
  • Decide
  • Design
  • Desire
  • Determine
  • Expect
  • Have a mind
  • Have in mind
  • Have in view
  • Have plans
  • Have the intention
  • Hope
  • Intend
  • Mean
  • Plan
  • Propose
  • Resolve
  • Set one's sights on
  • Set out
  • Want
  • Wish
  • Think of

Purpose sentences

She acted with clear purpose.

The meeting had no purpose.

They questioned the project’s purpose.

His purpose is to inspire.

Everything happens for a purpose.

Purpose parts of speech

Noun