Deliberate
[dɪ'lɪb(ə)rət] or [dɪ'lɪbərət]
Definition
(adj.) carefully thought out in advance; 'a calculated insult'; 'with measured irony' .
Typist: Tito--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Weighing facts and arguments with a view to a choice or decision; carefully considering the probable consequences of a step; circumspect; slow in determining; -- applied to persons; as, a deliberate judge or counselor.
(a.) Formed with deliberation; well-advised; carefully considered; not sudden or rash; as, a deliberate opinion; a deliberate measure or result.
(a.) Not hasty or sudden; slow.
(v. t.) To weigh in the mind; to consider the reasons for and against; to consider maturely; to reflect upon; to ponder; as, to deliberate a question.
(v. i.) To take counsel with one's self; to weigh the arguments for and against a proposed course of action; to reflect; to consider; to hesitate in deciding; -- sometimes with on, upon, about, concerning.
Checker: Prudence
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. n. Reflect, ponder, consider, think, cogitate, ruminate, muse, meditate, take counsel with one's self.
a. [1]. Wary, cautious, careful, circumspect, considerate, thoughtful.[2]. Well considered, well advised, not rash.[3]. Slow, not hasty.
Typist: Rudy
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Consider, meditate, consult, weigh, reflect, ponder, debate, perpend
ANT:Shelve, burke, discard, hazard, chance, risk
SYN:Grave, purposed, intentional, designed, determined, resolute, earnest,unbiased, unprejudiced
ANT:Playful, jocose, facetious, irresolute, unresolved, undetermined, dubious,compulsory, suggested, dictated, instigated, biased, prejudiced
Editor: Olivia
Definition
v.t. to weigh well in one's mind.—v.i. to consider the reasons for and against anything: to reflect: to consider.—adj. well considered: considering carefully: slow in determining: cautious.—adv. Delib′erately.—ns. Delib′erateness; Deliberā′tion the act of deliberating: mature reflection: calmness: coolness.—adj. Delib′erative proceeding or acting by deliberation.—adv. Delib′eratively.
Edited by Kathleen
Examples
- If you ever say less than this, you will be guilty of deliberate falsehood to me. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Hardly, returned Bulstrode, in the same deliberate, silvery tone; except by some changes of plan. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- It seems to have been a very deliberate affair. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- Deliberate revolt or deliberate attempts to deceive others may result. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Deliberate effort and the taking of thoughtful pains are required. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- It is rare, I think, that the fraud is so genial and so deliberate. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- If any copies were handed about, they must have been in manuscript, and each copy must have been liable to errors and deliberate falsification. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Boultby heard and deliberated with bent brow and protruded under lip. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- When I said that I only came to see how Miss Havisham was, Sarah evidently deliberated whether or no she should send me about my business. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- I deliberated a moment; my answer, when it did come, was objectionable: I must keep in good health, and not die. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- I might have paused longer upon what I saw; I might have deliberated ere I drew inferences. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- I dined, myself, while those numskulls were deliberating which world you should belong to--this, or some other. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- Here, leaning over the banister, I cried out suddenly, and without at all deliberating on my words-- They are not fit to associate with me. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- I am very well,' replied Mr Merdle, after deliberating about it. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Well, said he, in a deliberating manner, for five minutes, perhaps. Jane Austen. Emma.
- The night following this affairI was to go the next morningwas spent by me in deliberating on what my future conduct should be. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
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