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deliberate

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Adjective, Verb (usu participle)
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de=lib=er=ate
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OXFORD DICTIONARY

deliberate, adj. & v.
--adj.
1 a intentional (a deliberate foul). b fully considered; not impulsive (made a deliberate choice).
2 slow in deciding; cautious (a ponderous and deliberate mind).
3 (of movement etc.) leisurely and unhurried.
--v.
1 intr. think carefully; take counsel (the jury deliberated for an hour).
2 tr. consider, discuss carefully (deliberated the question).

Derivative
deliberately adv. deliberateness n. deliberator n.
Etymology
L deliberatus past part. of deliberare (as DE-, librare weigh f. libra balance)

THESAURUS

deliberate

advise with, advised, aforethought, aimed, aimed at, air, ambling, analyze, back down, balance, bargain, be abstracted, brood, brood over, calculated, call in, calm, canny, canvass, careful, cautious, chaw, chew over, chew the cud, circumspect, claudicant, cold-blooded, collected, collogue, comment upon, compare notes, composed, con over, confer, confer with, confident, conscious, consider, considerate, considered, consult, consult with, contemplate, contemplated, controvert, cool, counsel, crawling, creeping, creeping like snail, deal with, debate, deliberate over, deliberate upon, deliberated, demur, designed, digest, discourse about, discreet, discuss, discuss with, dispassionate, easy, envisaged, envisioned, even, examine, exchange observations, exchange views, falter, faltering, fastidious, fear, flagging, foot-dragging, foresighted, forethoughtful, gentle, gingerly, go into, gradual, guarded, halting, handle, hang back, hasteless, have conversations, heedful, hem and haw, hesitant, hesitate, hobbled, hobbling, hold conference, hover, hum and haw, idle, imperturbable, inactive, indolent, intended, intentional, introspect, investigate, jib, judicious, knock around, knowing, languid, languorous, lazy, leaving out nothing, leisurely, limping, lumbering, meant, measured, meditate, meditate upon, meditated, methodical, meticulous, mindful, moderate, mull, mull over, muse, muse on, muse over, negotiate, noncommittal, of design, on guard, orderly, overlooking no possibility, paced, painstaking, palaver, parley, pass under review, pause, pawky, perpend, planned, play around with, play with, poking, poky, politic, ponder, ponder over, powwow, prearranged, preconceived, premeditated, prepense, projected, proposed, provident, prudent, pull back, punctilious, purposed, purposeful, purposive, put heads together, rap, reason, reason about, reason the point, reason with, refer to, reflect, reflect over, regardful, regular, relaxed, reluctant, retreat, review, revolve, ruminate, ruminate over, run over, safe, sauntering, schemed, scruple, scrupulous, serene, shilly-shally, shuffling, shy, sift, sit down together, sit down with, slack, slothful, slow, slow as death, slow as molasses, slow as slow, slow to act, slow-crawling, slow-foot, slow-going, slow-legged, slow-moving, slow-paced, slow-poky, slow-running, slow-sailing, slow-stepped, sluggish, snail-paced, snaillike, speculate, staggering, steady, stick at, stickle, stop to consider, straddle the fence, strain at, strolling, studied, studious, study, sure, systematic, take counsel, take up, take up with, talk, talk about, talk of, talk over, teleological, tentative, think about, think over, think twice about, thorough, thought-out, thoughtful, thresh out, toddling, tortoiselike, tottering, toy with, treat, trudging, turn over, turtlelike, unadventurous, uncommunicative, undaring, unenterprising, unfaltering, unhasty, unhesitating, unhurried, unprecipitate, unruffled, ventilate, voluntary, waddling, weigh, willful, withdraw, witting, yield

ROGET THESAURUS

deliberate

Leisure

N leisure, convenience, spare time, spare hours, spare moments, vacant hour, time, time to spare, time on one's hands, holiday, relaxation, otium cum dignitate, ease, no hurry, no big rush, no deadline, leisure, leisurely, slow, deliberate, quiet, calm, undisturbed, at leisure, at one's ease, at loose ends, at a loose end, unhurriedly, deliberately, without undue haste, anytime, time hanging heavy on one's hands, eile mit Weile.

Advice

VB advise, counsel, give advice, give counsel, give a piece of advice, suggest, prompt, submonish, recommend, prescribe, advocate, exhort, enjoin, enforce, charge, instruct, call, call upon, dictate, expostulate, admonish, advise with, lay heads together, consult together, compare notes, hold a council, deliberate, be closeted with, confer, consult, refer to, call in, take advice, follow advice, be advised by, have at one's elbow, take one's cue from.

Slowness

N slowness, languor, drawl, creeping, lentor, retardation, slackening, delay, claudication, jog trot, dog trot, mincing steps, slow march, slow time, slow goer, slow coach, slow back, lingerer, loiterer, sluggard, tortoise, snail, poke, dawdle, slow, slack, tardy, dilatory, gentle, easy, leisurely, deliberate, gradual, insensible, imperceptible, glacial, languid, sluggish, slow paced, tardigrade, snail-like, creeping, reptatorial, slowly, leisurely, piano, adagio, largo, larghetto, at half speed, under easy sail, at a foots pace, at a snail's pace, at a funeral pace, in slow time, with mincing steps, with clipped wings, haud passibus aequis, gradually, gradatim, by degrees, by slow degrees, by inches, by little and little, step by step, one step at a time, inch by inch, bit by bit, little by little, seriatim, consecutively, dum Roma deliberat Saguntum perit, at a glacial pace.

Thought

VB 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 the mind, apply the mind, digest, discuss, hammer at, weigh, perpend, realize, appreciate, fancy, trow, take into consideration, take counsel, commune with oneself, bethink oneself, collect one's thoughts, revolve in the mind, turn over in the mind, run over in the mind, chew the cud upon, sleep upon, take counsel of one's pillow, advise with one's pillow, rack one's brains, ransack one's brains, crack one's brains, beat one's brains, cudgel one's brains, set one's brain to work, set one's wits to work, harbor an idea, entertain an idea, cherish an idea, nurture an idea, take into one's head, bear in mind, reconsider, occur, present itself, suggest itself, come into one's head, get into one's head, strike one, flit across the view, come uppermost, run in one s head, enter the mind, pass in the mind, cross the mind, flash on the mind, flash across the mind, float in the mind, fasten itself on the mind, be uppermost in the mind, occupy the mind, have in one's mind, make an impression, sink into the mind, penetrate into the mind, engross the thoughts.


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