► deliberatelydone in a way that is intended or planned: Someone had deliberately set fire to the house.
► intentionally deliberately, especially in order to have a particular result or effect: Very few teenagers become pregnant intentionally.
► consciously deliberately and with an understanding of what you are doing and what the results will be: He said he hadn’t consciously borrowed language from the other author’s stories.
► purposely (also on purpose especially spoken) purposely means the same as intentionally: Some day-care centers are purposely built near senior centers so that old and young people can interact. He said it was an accident, but I’m pretty sure he hit me on purpose.
► knowingly deliberately doing something that you know is wrong: He knowingly sold alcohol to a person under the age of 21.