Rhyme Dictionary

Rhymes with “Purpose”

♬53 rhyming words found

🎯 Perfect Rhymes for "Purpose"

3 words

These words rhyme exactly with "purpose" — same ending sound.

Word	Syllables	Definition
all-purpose	3	For all purposes; general-purpose.
multipurpose	4	Designed or intended to fit more than one type of function or application; having multiple uses.
usurp us	3	—

🎵 Near Rhymes for "Purpose"

50 words

These words don't rhyme perfectly but share a similar sound — great for slant rhyme and song lyrics.

Word	Syllables	Type	Definition
earnest	2	noun	Gravity; serious purpose; earnestness.
determine	3	verb	To ascertain definitely; to figure out, find out, or conclude by analyzing, calculating, or investigating.
argus	2	noun	(Greek mythology) A mythical being, also called Argos or Argus Panoptes, with many eyes, a watchman who served Hera; his eyes were later transplanted to the peacock's tail.
surplus	2	noun	That which remains when use or need is satisfied, or when a limit is reached; excess; overplus; overage.
circuit	2	noun	(electricity) Enclosed path of an electric current, usually designed for a certain function.
circle	2	noun	(geometry) A two-dimensional geometric figure, a line, consisting of the set of all those points in a plane that are equally distant from a given point (center).
nervous	2		Easily agitated or alarmed; edgy, on edge.
purchase	2	noun	The acquisition of title to, or property in, anything for a price; buying for money or its equivalent.
purple	2	noun	A colour between red and blue; violet, though often closer to magenta.
circus	2	noun	A traveling company of performers that may include acrobats, clowns, trained animals, and other novelty acts, that gives shows usually in a circular tent.
lip service	3	noun	(idiomatic) Promising but empty talk; words without action or intention.
wordless	2		Conveyed without the use of words; unspoken or unsaid.
arcus	2	noun	(medicine) A white band of cholesterol that forms at the edge of the cornea
furnace	2	noun	(US, Canada) A device that provides heat for a building.
carcass	2	noun	The body of a dead animal, especially a vertebrate or other animal having flesh.
disservice	3	noun	Service that results in harm; an (intentionally or unintentionally) unhelpful, harmful action.
epidermis	4	noun	The outer, protective layer of the skin of vertebrates, covering the dermis
curtain	2	noun	A piece of cloth covering a window, bed, etc. to offer privacy and keep out light.
resurface	3	verb	(transitive) To provide a new surface, to replace or remodel the surface of something, or to restore a surface. To put a new coating or finish on a surface.
purposed	2		Intentional, deliberate.
dermis	2	noun	(anatomy) The tissue of the skin underlying the epidermis.
habeas corpus	5	noun	(law) A writ ordering that a person be brought before a court or a judge, most frequently used to ensure that a person's imprisonment, detention, or commitment is legal.
versus	2	verb	To face in competition
tortoise	2	noun	Any of various land-dwelling reptiles, of the family Testudinidae (chiefly Canada, US) or the order Testudines (chiefly UK, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, South Africa, India), whose body is enclosed in a shell (carapace plus plastron). The animal can withdraw its head and four legs partially into the shell, providing some protection from predators.
cursive	2	noun	(of writing) Having successive letters joined together.
porpoise	2	noun	Any small cetacean of the family Phocoenidae, related to dolphins and whales.
percuss	2	verb	(transitive) To strike; to hit; to knock; to give a blow to.
shirtless	2		(chiefly of a male) Not wearing a shirt; having a bare torso, barechested
turnip	2	noun	The white root of a yellow-flowered plant, Brassica rapa, grown as a vegetable and as fodder for cattle.
secret service	4	noun	A governmental agency that deals with espionage and other acts of secrecy.
targets	2		a 1968 American crime thriller film directed by Peter Bogdanovich in his theatrical directorial debut, and starring Tim O'Kelly, Boris Karloff, Nancy Hsueh, Bogdanovich, James Brown, Arthur Peterson and Sandy Baron.
curses	2		curses is a terminal control library for Unix-like systems, enabling the construction of text user interface applications.
dorcas	2	noun	A female given name from Ancient Greek of biblical origin.
nurses	2		an American sitcom television series that aired on NBC from September 14, 1991, to May 7, 1994, created and produced by Susan Harris as a spin-off of Empty Nest, which itself was a spin-off of The Golden Girls.
gopher tortoise	4	noun	Any of the species of the taxonomic genus Gopherus, which are burrowing tortoises of southern North America.
writ of habeas corpus	7	noun	Synonym of habeas corpus.
purses	2	noun	A small bag for carrying money.
hurless	2	noun	—
airbus	2	noun	A subsonic jet airliner, especially a wide-bodied one.
burden	2	noun	A heavy load.
burress	2	noun	A surname.
certain	2	noun	Sure in one's mind, positive; absolutely confident in the truth of something.
corpus	2	noun	A collection of written or spoken texts.
curtis	2	noun	A male given name transferred from the surname.
fergus	2	noun	A male given name from Scottish Gaelic.
furnas	2	noun	A surname.
gervase	2	noun	A male given name from the Germanic languages, common in the Middle Ages but rare today.
hurt us	2		—
jervis	2	noun	A male given name.
kurtis	2	noun	A male given name, variant of Curtis.