verb
definition
To consider carefully; to weigh well in the mind.
example
It is now time for the jury to deliberate the guilt of the defendant.
definition
To consider the reasons for and against anything; to reflect.
adjective
definition
Done on purpose; intentional.
example
Tripping me was deliberate action.
synonyms
definition
Of a person, weighing facts and arguments with a view to a choice or decision; carefully considering the probable consequences of a step; slow in determining.
example
The jury took eight hours to come to its deliberate verdict.
synonyms
definition
Formed with deliberation; carefully considered; not sudden or rash.
example
a deliberate opinion; a deliberate measure or result
synonyms
definition
Not hasty or sudden; slow.
Examples of deliberate in a Sentence
Sure she was thin, but it wasn't a deliberate condition.
The deliberate movements alone took a minute.
His movements were deliberate as he walked toward her - as if he were measuring every word he was about to say.
It was a calculated, deliberate move to wipe out the wealthy.
She shrugged with as much elegance as she could muster, and eyed him with deliberate interest.
The deliberate dance was methodical.
The Immortal approached with caution, his movements deliberate and his voice steady and low.
The act had the appearance of a deliberate offence to the king, who was on bad terms with his son.
Rostov was a truthful young man and would on no account have told a deliberate lie.
His move was too deliberate to be other than planned.
She smiled weakly at his deliberate misinterpretation of the cliché.
He cannot deliberate or will as we do.
Being deliberate is the key to how to stay organized no matter how busy you get or how many tasks you have to do.
Reality show nudity can be deliberate or accidental and may or may not be a stunt by producers or the network to boost ratings.
Something in his innocent boyish smile and the way he moved - so deliberate, even graceful.
This is the deliberate alteration of an exemplar by way of substitution, addition or omission, but when it takes the particular form of omission it is naturally very hard to detect.
I would not consider, I would not deliberate; I would act !"
Peter, in fact, was too good-natured and inconsequent to pursue, or even premeditate, any deliberate course of ill treatment.
Deliberate alteration is occasionally due to disapproval of what stands in the text or even to less creditable reasons.
It was evident that a similar analysis might have been applied to tactual consciousness which does not give externality in its deepest significance any more than the visual; but with deliberate purpose Berkeley at first drew out only one side of his argument.
It also introduced the deliberate anachronism, such as the oscillating fans and manual keyboards in the newsroom of Network 23.
To this question I shall expect from you an answer in plain terms according to your deliberate judgment.
It was decided that that army should halt and reconstitute for the present, as any further advance could only be carried out by a deliberate and carefully planned assault on the canal line.
Troppau was founded in the 13th century; but almost its only claim to historical mention is the fact that in 1820 the monarchs of Austria, Russia and Prussia met here to deliberate on the tendencies of the Neapolitan revolution.
Though the idea of preserving peace by general international regulation has had several exponents in the course of ages, no deliberate plan has ever yet been carried into effect.
There is no historical proof that power was formally entrusted to rulers by the conscious and deliberate action of the ruled.
The supreme ecclesiastical authority is the consistory in Dessau; while a synod of 39 members, elected for six years, assembles at periods to deliberate on internal matters touching the organization of the church.
Hands shoved backwards into his back pockets, he took slow deliberate steps, as if he had something on his mind.
The adjectives derived, duped and were deliberate.
I'm cynical enough to believe this is deliberate.
Peter Watkins uses TV broadcasting, a deliberate anachronism, to stage his tale of the Paris Commune.
It is notable (and probably deliberate) that at few radon conferences are the benefits of marginal intervention assessed in a health context.
It may even be a deliberate falsehood with the intention of encouraging dangerous or evil acts.
Like my father, I'm not a person given to deliberate untruths, I assure you.
Children seldom have any difficulty in understanding her; which suggests that her deliberate measured speech is like theirs, before they come to the adult trick of running all the words of a phrase into one movement of the breath.
He had an intellectual and distinctive head, but the instant he turned to Prince Andrew the firm, intelligent expression on his face changed in a way evidently deliberate and habitual to him.
The deliberate sending of junk or spam e-mails is forbidden.
There certainly were some who wanted to see the disappearance of the Jewish population through deliberate starvation.
I made the supposition yesterday that the remark was probably deliberate.
Be sure to use slow, deliberate movements when experiencing back pain.
While many fans balked at the exclusion of the three lyrical songs, the move was deliberate.
Their movements were slow and methodical, controlled, deliberate.
He found there, as he subsequently explained, the most confused ideas current as to the aims of the Allies in the war, and deliberate perversions circulated by enemy agents.
The frankness with which he attacks the court of Rome for its exactions is remarkable; so, too, is the intense nationalism which he displays in dealing with this topic. His faults of presentment are more often due to carelessness and narrow views than to deliberate purpose.
And it is immediately evident that the deliberate "bear" works by selling "futures," and that the effect of his sales is propagated to "spot."
In November the emperor put an end to the angry debates which ensued in the assembly by dissolving it, exiling the Andradas to France, and convoking a new assembly to deliberate on a proposed constitution more liberal than the former project.
This decision is so patently unjust that it has been very widely ascribed to a deliberate design to keep the two countries apart.
Their campaign was one of deliberate conquest, one of the greatest ever planned by Christian missionaries.
Chapter vii., then, interrupts the development of the author's plan, but the interruption is deliberate.
In October of this last year a committee (Landesausschuss) of the whole territory was appointed to deliberate on laws proposed to it before they received the final sanction of the emperor.