deliberateadjective
uk/dɪˈlɪb.ər.ət/us/dɪˈlɪb.ɚ.ət/B2 (often of something bad) intentional or planned:
a deliberate attack/insult/lie
We made a deliberate decision to live apart for a while.
A deliberate movement, action, or thought is done carefully without hurrying:
From her slow, deliberate speech I guessed she must be drunk.
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- Some women make a deliberate choice to rear a child alone.
- Can you pick out the three deliberate mistakes in this paragraph?
- I don't think his name was left off the list by accident - I think it was deliberate.
- This was a deliberate attempt to wreck the peace talks.
- I didn't take a deliberate decision to lose weight. It just happened.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Planning, expecting and arranging
- accidentally
- accidentally on purpose idiom
- advertent
- advisedly
- aim
- aim at sth
- calculate
- chart
- engineer
- in the pipeline idiom
- intend
- intent
- intention
- intentional
- promise
- scheme
- scientific
- see sth coming idiom
- set sth up
- strategic
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deliberateverb [ I or T ]
uk/dɪˈlɪb.ə.reɪt/us/dɪˈlɪb.ə.reɪt/formalto think or talk seriously and carefully about something:
The jury took five days to deliberate on the case.
The committee has deliberated the question at great length.
[ + question word ] He's deliberating whether or not to accept the new job that he's been offered.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Thinking and contemplating
- -ly
- agonize over/about sth
- chew
- chew sth over
- chew the cud idiom
- chew your cud idiom
- depth
- lateral thinking
- let me see/let's see idiom
- let's see idiom
- meditate
- puzzle
- rack
- reflect
- the thought crosses sb's mind idiom
- think sth out
- think sth over
- think sth through
- thinking
- worry
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