Deliberate

Definition: Deliberate

Deliberate

Adjective

1. By conscious design or purpose; "intentional damage"; "a knowing attempt to defraud"; "a willful waste of time".

2. With care and dignity; "walking at the same measured pace"; "with all deliberate speed".

3. Produced or marked by conscious design or premeditation; "a studied smile"; "a note of biting irony and studied insult"- V.L.Parrington.

4. Marked by careful consideration or reflection; "a deliberate decision".

5. Carefully thought out in advance; "a calculated insult"; "with measured irony".

Verb

1. Think about carefully; weigh; "They considered the possibility of a strike"; "Turn the proposal over in your mind".

2. Discuss the pros and cons of an issue.

3. Consider carefully and deeply; reflect upon; turn over in one's mind.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "deliberate" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references)

Synonyms: Deliberate

Advice

Advise with; lay heads together, consult together; compare notes; hold a council, deliberate, be closeted with.

Attention

Active application, diligent application, exclusive application, minute application, close application, intense application, deep application, profound application, abstract application, labored application, deliberate application, active attention, diligent attention, exclusive attention, minute attention, close attention, intense attention, deep attention, profound attention, abstract attention, labored attention, deliberate attention, active thought, diligent thought, exclusive thought, minute thought, close thought, intense thought, deep thought, profound thought, abstract thought, labored thought, deliberate thought, active study, diligent study, exclusive study, minute study, close study, intense study, deep study, profound study, abstract study, labored study, deliberate study.

Leisure

Adjective: leisure, leisurely; slow; deliberate, quiet, calm, undisturbed; at leisure, at one's ease, at loose ends, at a loose end.

Slowness

Adjective: slow, slack; tardy; dilatory; (inactive); gentle, easy; leisurely; deliberate, gradual; insensible, imperceptible; glacial, languid, sluggish, slow paced, tardigrade, snail-like; creeping; Verb: reptatorial.

Thought

Verb: think, reflect, cogitate, excogitate, consider, deliberate; bestow thought upon, bestow consideration upon; speculate, contemplate, meditate, ponder, muse, dream, ruminate; brood over, con over; animadvert, study; bend -, apply mind; (attend); digest, discuss, hammer at, weigh, perpend; realize, appreciate; fancy; (imagine); trow.

Crosswords: Deliberate

Nobody panic, that was deliberate. It was deliberate (The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers; writing credit: Frances Walsh)

Neatness has always been the form of very deliberate planning (North by Northwest; writing credit: Ernest Lehman)

It's a deliberate insult, Papa (The Smiling Lieutenant; writing credit: Henri Bataille; Felix Dormann)

I did not agree to kill a man by deliberate radiation poisoning (The Amazing Transparent Man; writing credit: Jack Lewis)

The Deliberate Stranger (1986)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Daily Planning Calendar, The Science of Deliberate Creation : Abraham-Hicks Planning Calendar and Study Guide Workbook (reference)

• Deliberate Acts of Kindness Service as a Spiritual Practice [DOWNLOAD: MICROSOFT READER] (reference)

• Deliberate and Accidental Acts (reference)

• Deliberate Deceptions: Facing the Facts About the U.S.-Israeli Relationship (reference)

• Deliberate Indifference (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Deliberate Intent (reference)

• The Deliberate Stranger (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Deliberate Sounds [IMPORT] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

The inconveniences of one kind have caused sundry others to be devised; so that in a word, all public regiment, of what kind soever, seemeth evidently to have risen from the deliberate advice, consultation and composition between men, judging it convenient and behoveful; there being no impossibility in nature considered by itself, but that man might have lived without any public regiment, Hooker's Eccl. (Second Treatise of Government)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

He was in the very place where the judges deliberate and decide

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Health

People who witness a non-convulsive seizure often find it difficult to understand that behavior which looks deliberate is not under the person’s control. (references)

Business

It regulates deliberate releases for research and development and the trading of products intended for subsequent deliberate release. (references)

Children

New Zealand

In the year ending June 30, 2000, 2 children under age 15 died in assaults, down from 12 in 1997. In the past, the Government has reported that Maori children are four times as likely as non-Maori children to require hospital care for injuries resulting from deliberate harm. (references)

Civil Liberties

Guinea-Bissau

Observers criticized the closures as violations of freedom of the press and a deliberate move to create a climate of intimidation. (references)

Ethiopia

Private entities that would like to be broadcasters continue to claim that the delay in implementing the broadcast law is deliberate. (references)

Economic History

Albania

Berisha began a more deliberate program of economic and democratic reform, but progress on these issues was stalled in the mid-1990s following the collapse of several pyramid schemes. (references)

Slovenia

Although Slovenia has taken a cautious, deliberate approach to economic management and reform, with heavy emphasis on achieving consensus before proceeding, its overall record is one of success. (references)

Burma

This deliberate policy of corporate favoritism has created a business environment in which personal connections, rather than business skill or technical merit, are the most important factors for corporate success. (references)

Human Rights

Angola

Interviews with many refugees indicated that UNITA committed abuses, including public executions, as a deliberate policy. (references)

Congo

Reports from former detainees indicate a systematic pattern of beatings, undernourishment, and deliberate killings in these houses. (references)

Mozambique

Bribe-taking, chronic absenteeism, unequal treatment, and deliberate delays and omissions in handling cases continued to be problems during the year. (references)

Indigenous People

Peru

Many factors impede their ability to participate in, and facilitate their deliberate exclusion from, decision making directly affecting their lands, culture, traditions, and the allocation of natural resources. (references)

Political Economy

Rwanda

The security forces committed extrajudicial killings within the country; there also were numerous, credible reports that RPA units operating in the DRC committed deliberate extrajudicial killings and other serious abuses, and impunity remains a problem. (references)

Congo

The majority of abuses were committed in rebel-held areas, and rebel forces committed numerous, serious abuses with impunity against civilians living in territories under their control, including deliberate, large-scale killings, disappearances, torture, rape, dismemberment, extortion, robbery, arbitrary arrests and detention, harassment of human rights workers and journalists, and forcible recruitment of child soldiers. (references)

Political Rights

Guyana

As part of the review, the team conducted detailed consultations with political parties, representatives of civil society, and members of GECOM between June 25 and 29. The results, published in mid-August, stated that IDEA was unable to find any evidence of deliberate manipulation or electoral fraud despite several procedural errors and system failures that the audit examined in some detail. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "deliberate": deliberate application ♦ deliberate artificial recharge ♦ deliberate attack ♦ deliberate attention ♦ deliberate breaching ♦ deliberate crossing ♦ deliberate data modification ♦ deliberate deception ♦ deliberate defence ♦ deliberate defense ♦ deliberate release ♦ deliberate study ♦ deliberate thought ♦ deliberate thrashing ♦ deliberate threat. Additional references.

Ending with "deliberate": non-deliberate.

Afrikaans

beraadslaag. (various references)

Albanian

diskutoj (assess, canvass, confer, consult, counsel, debate, discuss, dispute, expostulate, moot, negotiate, quarrel, reason, talk over, think over, thrash out), rrah në mendje, mendoj (believe, conceive, consider, contemplate, deem, dream up, elaborate, expect, fancy, feel, figure, guess, hold, imagine, judge, mean, opine, ponder, rate, reason, reckon for, reflect, regard, repute, say, study, suppose, take, think, Trow, try, understand, ween), i paramenduar (aforethought, intentional, preconceived, premeditated, prepense), i ngadaltë (creeping, dilatory, lingering, long, slack, slow, sluggish), i matur (abstinent, calculating, canny, careful, cautious, chary, chaste, circumlocutory, circumspect, circumspective, conservative, discreet, forehanded, gingerly, judicious, moderate, provident, prudent, reasonable, sober, staid, thoughtful, wary, well advised, well balanced), i kujdesshëm (accurate, attentive, canny, careful, cautious, chary, circumspect, circumspective, conservative, considerate, diligent, forethoughtful, forward-looking, grandmotherly, guarded, heedful, monitorial, observant, precise, thoughtful, up and coming, wary), i bërë me qëllim (calculated). (various references)

Arabic 

‏موزون (measured, metric, metrical, weighted), ‏متمهل (easygoing, relaxed, slow), ‏متعمد (designed, intentional, premeditated, purposed, wilful, willful), ‏متأن (fabian), ‏مروى فيه (calculated, detailed, forethought, maty, set), ‏مرو, ‏مدروس (calculated, elaborate, examined, forethought, fully considered, mature, studied, thoughtful, well advised), ‏وزن الرأي, ‏تأني (slow down), ‏تداول (circulation, confer, conference, counsel, currency, deliberation, negotiate). (various references)

Bulgarian 

съзнателен (advised, conscious, intentional, knowing, premeditated, scrupulous, sentient, voluntary), отмерен (circumspect, leisurely, measured, precise, rhythmical), обсъждам (agitate, argue, bethink, confer, consult, discuss, parley, powwow, reason, revolve, talk about, talk over, ventilate), обмислям (agitate, bethink, cogitate, consider, debate, digest, meditate, mull, ponder, pore, reason, revolve, speculate, study, think about, think out, think over, turn over in one's mind), обмислен (advised, calculated, cold blooded, conscious, considered, deliberative, measured, premeditated, studious, thought-out, voluntary), мисля (figure, guess, imagine, opine, pore, puzzle, puzzle over, reason, reckon, repute, see, suppose, think, ween, weigh), бавен (creeping, dense, dilatory, languid, leaden, leisurely, lingering, long, lumpish, pernickety, plodding, slack, slow, sluggish, stagnant, stopping, tardigrade, tardy, unready), предумишлен (aforethought, premeditated, prepense), преднамерен (aforethought, conscious, intentional, loaded, premeditated, prepense, purposive, studied, studious, voluntary, wilful, willful), предпазлив (cagey, canny, careful, cautious, chary, circumspect, cosy, deliberative, discreet, fabian, gingerly, guarded, open-eyed, precautious, prudent, sparing, ware, wary). (various references)

Chinese 

磋 (to polish), 故意 (intentional, Purposely), 商討 (discuss). (various references)

Czech

zámìrný (calculated, intentional, purposeful, studied, wilful, willful), vìdomý (calculated, conscious), schválný, rozvážný (calm, circumspect, collected, discreet, politic, responsible, sedate, serene, sober), rokovat, radit se (confer, go into a huddle), přemítat (ponder, revolve, ruminate), obezřetný (cautious, circumspect, politic, provident, prudent, wary), úmyslný (advised, calculated, conscious, intended, intentional, prepense, purposeful, voluntary, wanton, wilful, willful). (various references)

Danish

forhandle,forhandlinger (the deliberations). (various references)

Dutch

weloverwogen, weldoordacht, ruggespraak houden, overleggen, confereren, beraadslagen,de beraadslagingen (the deliberations), beraadslagen (confer, discuss with). (various references)

Esperanto

konsiliĝi, interkonsiliĝi. (various references)

Farsi 

کنکاش کردن (Consult), تعمق کردن (Ponder, Turnover), تعمدکردن , تعمدا, سنجیدن (Assay, Counterweight, Essay, Evaluate, Measure, Meter, Ponder, Try, Weigh), عمدی (Intentional, Studied), عمداانجام دادن , اندیشه کردن (Cogitate, Meditate, Muse, Ponder, Ruminate). (various references)

Finnish

tarkoituksellinen (intentional, purposeful), tahallinen (intentional, purposeful, wilful), pohtia (consider, discuss, think over), harkittu (premeditated), harkita (account, consider, esteem, ponder, reflect upon, regard, take into account, think over, weigh). (various references)

French

délibérons, délibérez, délibérer,les délibérations (the deliberations), délibérer, délibérent, délibéré (deliberation, deliberation of judges), réfléchir, réfléchi, prémédité, mesuré, méditation, intentionnel, circonspect, bien réfléchir, bien pesé. (various references)

German

absichtlich (advisedly, conscious, consciously, deliberately, designedly, intentional, intentionally, knowingly, on purpose, puposely, purposeful, purposefully, purposely, studied, studiedly, studiously, wilful, willful), überlegen (consider, lay over, masterfully, ponder, predominant, put over, supercilious, superior, think, think about, think on, think over, to deliberate, to reason), bewusst (aware, conscious, consciously, convinced, deliberately, intentional, intentionally, knowingly, purposely, self-aware, sensible, studious, studiously). (various references)

Greek 

σκόπιμοσ (desirable, expedient, intentional, purposeful, purposive, wilful, willful), σκέπτομαι (cogitate, consider, contemplate, meditate, speculate, think), συσκέπτομαι,οι συσκέψεις (the deliberations), μελετώ (con, consider, contemplate, meditate, peruse, ponder, study), προμελετημένοσ, εσκεμμένοσ (studied), εσκεμμένος (calculated, premeditated), επίτηδες (deliberately, intentionally, on purpose, wilfully), εθελημένος, διασκέπτομαι (confer, parley, powwow, resolve). (various references)

Hebrew 

שקול (balanced, balancing, consideration, considered, equal, measured, poised, politic, weighing, weighted), �"תכו� ותי (intentional). (various references)

Hungarian

szándékos (calculated, intended, intentional, malicious, premeditated, purposeful, purposive, voluntary, wilful, willful), akart, átgondolt (mature, reasoned). (various references)

Indonesian

sengaja (expressly, intentional, purposed), bincang (discuss). (various references)

Italian

voluto (intentional, would), riflettere (be reflected, bethink, consider, image, ponder, reflect, think, think about, think over). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

� 長 (easygoing, leisurely, slow). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

し�"ぼう (atrium, axle, careful, chamber of the heart, confidence, deeply laid plan, endurance, patience, popularity, shaft, thoughtful), し�"りょ (careful, divine will, prudence, thoughtful, thoughtfulness), ゆうちょう (easygoing, leisurely, mountain bird, slow, tedious). (various references)

Korean 

� 중한 (Deliberative, Discreet, Prudent, Prudential, thoughtful). (various references)

Manx

shlearagh (postponing, procrastinating, procrastination), moal (backward, belated, decrepit, deplorable, dim, disappointing, dull, enfeebled, feeble, flimsy, gradual, ill, laggard, late, late of fruit, listless, meagre, overdue, pithless, poor, poorly, scraggy, slack, slow, sorry, tardy, tawdry, unimpressive, weak, weak as faith, wretched, wretched of thing), kiarit (designed, intended, provided, resolved, settled), jioinagh (free will), goaill coyrle (consult, deliberation). (various references)

Norwegian

overlagt. (various references)

Pig Latin

eliberateday.(various references)

Portuguese

discutir (agitate, argue, canvass, controvert, debate, discourse, discuss, dispute, gainsay, knock off, moot, quarrel, rap, reason, spar, strike off, talk over, traverse, ventilate), deliberar,as deliberações (the deliberations), deliberar (accept or reject, confer, consult, debate, decide, powwow, resolve), deliberado (advised, calculated, conscious, designed, prepense, studied, wanton), ponderar (balance, cogitate, consider, contemplate, mature, meditate, mull, ponder, ruminate, view, weigh), intencional (calculated, conscious, designed, intended, intentional, pointed, prepense, purposeful, purposive, studied, wanton, wilful, willful), hesitante (diffident, double-minded, doubting, dubious, faltering, fumbling, half-hearted, halting, hesitant, indecisive, irresolute, limp, perplexed, reluctant, undecided, unresolved, vacillating, wavering, wobbly), considerar (account, bring into account, call, cogitate, consider, consult, count, debate, esteem, hold, hold in esteem, honor, honour, look, look upon, notice, ponder, powwow, put down, rate, reckon, regard, repute, respect, see, take into account, touch upon, treat, view), circunspeto (cattish, cautious, circumspect, circumspective, discreet, reserved, serious, thought-out, vigilant, wary, wise), circunspecto (cattish, cautious, circumspect, circumspective, discreet, reserved, serious, thought-out, vigilant, wary, wise), cauteloso (cagey, cannie, cautionary, cautious, gingerly, guarded, heedful, mature, prudent, reserved, vigilant, wary, watchful). (various references)

Romanian

delibera (debate), deliberat (advised, wilful), discuta (agitate, argue, confabulate, converse, debate upon, discuss, dispute, go through, haggle, impugn, moot, negotiate, powwow, question, reason, speak, talk, talk over), plãnuit (planned), chibzuit (balanced, canny, cautious, circumspect, discreet, economic, economical, judicious, measured, provident, providently, prudent, reflective, thought-out, thrifty, wary, wise), circumspect (cautious, circumspect, discreet, thoughtful, wary), consfãtui (confer), încet (at a slow pace, dawdling, dead alive, dilatory, dull, dull-headed, easy, faint, gentle, hist, lagging, lazily, lazy, leasurely, leisurely, lingering, low, slack, slow, slow but steady, slowly, sluggish, soft, still, tardy, time-taking, weak), lent (easy going, slow, slowly, sluggish), voit (advisedly, deliberately, intentional, wilful, wilfully), premeditat (advised, aforethought, malicious, premeditated, premeditative, studied, wilful), prevãzãtor (cautious, chary, discreet, far-seeing, provident, providently, prudent, thoughtful, wary, wide awake, wise), prudent (careful, cautious, chary, discreet, gingerly, heedful, prudent, safe, wary, well advised, wide awake), reflecta (chew the cud, cogitate, consider, contemplate, mirror, reflect, reflex, reverberate, ruminate), se consulta (advise, confer, consult with), sfãtui (admonish, advise, chat, confer, consult, counsel, exhort, recommend, Rede, rule, school, tip), studiat (affected, artificial, elaborate, studied), intenţionat (advised, deliberately, designedly, expressly, intentional, knowingly, minded, purposeful, purposely, studied, voluntary, wilful, with intention). (various references)

Russian 

умышленный (aforethought, felonious, intentional, purposeful, wilful, willful), совещаться (confer, confer with, hold a consultation, lay up heads together, powwow), осмотрительный (canny, cautious, circumspect, discreet, gingerly, guarded, wary), обдумывать (chew, cogitate, cogitated, cogitating, consider, contemplate, debate, mull, perpend, ponder, premeditate, think of), обдуманный (advised, considered, mature, measured, politic, studied), нарочитый (intentional), намеренный (intentional, purposive). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

većati (confer), razmotriti (consider, discuss, fall to thinking, inspect, muse on, muse upon, review, take up, treat, view), razmišljati (cogitate, contemplate, debate, meditate, mull over, muse, ponder, reflect, ruminate, speculate, think over), promišljen (cunning, measured, notable, reasoned, ruminated, ruminative, studied, thought-out), promišljati, oprezan (alert, argus-eyed, careful, chary, circumspect, circumspective, discreet, measured, vigilant, ware, wary, wide awake), nameran (intentional, purposeful, tendencial, willful), hotimičan (intentional, prepense, purposive). (various references)

Spanish

deliberado (knowing, measured, purposive, wilful, willful). (various references)

Swedish

överlägga (confer, consult). (various references)

Turkish

danışmak (advise with, confer, consult, debate, take one's advice, turn to), düşünmek (allow, balance, be pensive, bethink oneself, cerebrate, cogitate, conceive, consider, consult, contemplate, envision, excogitate, fancy, figure, give a thought, give thought to, imagine, intend, meditate, opine, reason, reflect, remember, ruminate, suppose, think, think of), tedbirli (advised, cagey, canny, careful, cautious, circumspect, deliberative, discreet, fabian, fail-proof, fail-safe, forethoughtful, guarded, politic, precautionary, prudent, prudential, tactical, wary, well advised), tasarlanmış (conceived, designed, intended, planned, prepense), tartmak (balance, debate with oneself, Gage, gauge, measure, scale, weigh, weigh out), planlanmış (aforethought, designed, planned), kasti (conscious, intended, intentional, wilful, willful), kasıtlı (aforethought, designed, designedly, felonious, intended, intentional, meaning, prepense, purposely, studied, voluntary, wilful, willful), emin (assured, bailee, certain, clear, cocksure, confident, confidential, fiduciary, firm, good, in the bag, proof, reliable, responsible, safe, secure, sound, stanch, staunch, sure, trustworthy, trusty, unfaltering), ağır (arduous, back breaking, badly, bovine, burdensome, contemptuous, cumbersome, cumbrous, deep, dignified, drudging, dull, fabian, foul, grave, grievous, hard, harsh, heavily, heavy, hefty, indigestible, languid, lazy, lumbering, massive, measured, muzzy, not fast, onerous, oppressive, plodding, ponderous, repressive, rich, scorching, scornful, serious, serious minded, seriously, severe, severely, sharp, slack, slashing, slow, slow moving, slowly, sluggish, smashing, stodgy, strenuous, strong, swingeing, toilful, toilsome, unwholesome, unwieldy, weighty), üzerinde tartışmak. (various references)

Ukrainian

умисний (aforethought, calculated, ostentatious, premeditated, purposive), вагатися (balance, boggle, demur, dilly dally, falter, fluctuate, halt, hesitate, hover, oscillate, pause, stagger, vacillate, vibrate, waver, whiffle), обмірковувати (cast, chew, discuss, mull over, perpend, ponder, ponderate, revolve, think over, turn over), обережний (alert, canny, careful, cautionary, cautious, chary, circumspect, circumspective, discreet, fabian, gingerly, heedful, precautious, tender, up and coming, ware, wary, watchful), обачний (awake, canny, careful, cautious, chary, circumspect, circumspective, fly, guarded, hard-headed, provident, prudent, wary, wise), неквапливий (canny, dilatory, easy, leisured, plodding, slow, unhurried), нарочитий (obvious, orchidaceous), навмисний (advised, aforethought, calculated, designed, felonious, forethought, industrious, intended, intentional, malicious, prepense, purposeful, voluntary, wilful, willful), міркувати (brood over, cogitate, contemplate, descant, dwell, excogitate, meditate, peruse, pore, ratiocinate, reason, speculate). (various references)

Vietnamese 

khoan thai, không vội v� ng (unhurried), chủ tâm thong thả, có suy nghĩ cân nhắc; thận trọng có tính toán, cố ý (aforethought, consciously, knowingly, prepense, set, studied, studious). (various references)

Welsh

pwyllog (discreet, prudent), hamddenol (leisurely). (various references)

cogitatis, cogitato, cogitatum, cogitatus, consiliabor, consiliamini, consiliari, consiliati, consiliatorum, consiliatus, consul, consulam, consulat, consulatur, consule, consulendum, consulens, consulere, consulerentque, consuleret, consuleretis, consulite, consultum, consuluerunt, consulueruntque, consuluisti, consuluit, consuluitque, darda, delibero, dubito, pressi, ratiocincare, tarde, tardi, tardioris, tardus, ultroneus. (various references)

baodhô-varshtahe. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "deliberate": deliberated, deliberately, deliberateness, deliberatenesses, deliberates. (additional references)

Words ending with "deliberate": nondeliberate. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Deliberate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: delberate, deleberate, delibarate, deliberare, deliberat, deliberatle, deliberatr, deliberte, deliverate. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: liberated.

-2 letters: detailer, editable, elaterid, liberate, librated, rebaited, retailed, rideable.

-3 letters: alerted, altered, atelier, beadier, bedrail, beetled, beetler, belated, berated, bleared, bleated, bleater, bleeder, brailed, debater, dilater, driblet, leadier, librate, rebated, redbait, redtail, related, retable, retiled, ridable, tabered, trailed, treadle, trebled, triable, tribade.

-4 letters: abider, aedile, aeried, airted, albeit, albite, ariled, bailed, bailee, bailer.

+1 letter: deliberated, deliberates.

+2 letters: deliberately, deliberative, determinable.

+3 letters: nondeliberate, reestablished.

+4 letters: creditableness, deliberateness, deliberatively, differentiable, disrespectable, indeterminable, preestablished, undeterminable.

+5 letters: deterrabilities, remediabilities.