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/dɪlˈɪbərət/ /dɪlˈɪbərˌeɪt/ /dɪlˈɪbrət/ Listen

adjective

Deliberate adj.

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. "These deliberate fools."

Formed with deliberation; well-advised; carefully considered; not sudden or rash; as, a deliberate opinion; a deliberate measure or result. "Settled visage and deliberate word."

Not hasty or sudden; slow. "His enunciation was so deliberate."

Having awareness of the likely consequences; intentional.

verb

Deliberate v. t. (past & past part. deliberated; pres. part. deliberating) 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.

Deliberate 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. "The woman that deliberates is lost."

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Etymology of 'Deliberate'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Deliberate" Quotes from Famous Books

... the two rifles, were about equal to service conditions at five hundred yards. The weight and size of the gun made the test a fair one. We tried out the two chief postures, sitting and prone, and had both slow and rapid fire, or as the captain prefers to say, slow and deliberate. ...

— At Plattsburg • Allen French

... seen (p. 63) how careful definition the word "murder" may need. "Malice aforethought" is another familiar instance: it sounds simple, but when one begins to fix the limits at which sudden anger passes over into cool and deliberate enmity, or how far gone a man must be in drink before he loses the consciousness of his purposes, even a layman can see ...

— The Making of Arguments • J. H. Gardiner

... man of fifty-five, sallow and unhappy. His tone was funereal and deliberate, his eyes ...

— Bones in London • Edgar Wallace

... eyes fastened to the blackboard until the announcer called the number of the track and wrote it down in his slow deliberate hand. From that minute to the time when the first porter came up the stairs and through the gate seemed an eternity, but at last Tom's head and ...

— Phyllis - A Twin • Dorothy Whitehill

... principle of this triga, and its enlightened sentiment and bond of union, already symbolically comprehended, whom it was intended to comprehend ultimately in all the multiplicity and variety of his historical manifestations, though it involved a deliberate plan for reducing and suppressing his many-headedness, and restoring him to the use of his one only mind. For though the name of this person is often spelt in three letters, and oftener in one, it takes all the names in the Directory to spell it in full. For this is none ...

— The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded • Delia Bacon

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