Word Meanings - DELIBERATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Weighing facts and arguments with a view 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."

Additional info about word: DELIBERATE

1. Weighing facts and arguments with a view 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." Shak. 2. 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. Shak. 3. Not hasty or sudden; slow. Hooker. His enunciation was so deliberate. W. Wirt.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of DELIBERATE)

• Confer
• Compare
• collate
• discuss
• deliberate
• converse
• consult
• give
• present
• Consider
• Attend
• revolve
• meditate
• think
• reflect
• investigate
• regard
• observe
• judge
• opine
• infer
• deduce
• weigh
• cogitate
• ponder
• deem
• Consult
• Interrogate
• canvass
• question
• confer
• advise with
• consider
• ask advice of
• care for
• promote
• Cool
• Cold
• frigid
• unimpassioned
• calm
• indifferent
• self-possessed
• dispassioned
• collected
• apathetic
• composed
• Debate
• Contend
• dispute
• argue
• moot
• controvert
• contest
• wrangle
• ventilate

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of DELIBERATE)

• Pretermit
• allow
• ignore
• disregard
• admit
• pass
• misexamine
• misinvestigate
• Keep silent
• Shelve
• burke
• discard
• hazard
• chance
• risk
• Dictate
• state
• assert
• pronounce
• enunciate
• concede
• endorse
• affirm
• grant
• Miss
• overlook
• despise
• dislike
• contemn
• hate
• loathe
• misconsider
• misconceive
• misestimate
• misjudge

Related words: (words related to DELIBERATE)

• THINKING
  Having the faculty of thought; cogitative; capable of a regular train of ideas; as, man is a thinking being. -- Think"ing*ly, adv.
• DISREGARDFULLY
  Negligently; heedlessly.
• COLLECTIVENESS
  A state of union; mass.
• COLLECTEDLY
  Composedly; coolly.
• STATESMANLIKE
  Having the manner or wisdom of statesmen; becoming a statesman.
• COMPOSITOUS
  Belonging to the Compositæ; composite. Darwin.
• OPINER
  One who opines. Jer. Taylor.
• CONFERENCE
  A stated meeting of preachers and others, invested with authority to take cognizance of ecclesiastical matters. 6. A voluntary association of Congregational churches of a district; the district in which such churches are. Conference meeting,
• CHANCELLERY
  Chancellorship. Gower.
• HAZARDIZE
  A hazardous attempt or situation; hazard. Herself had run into that hazardize. Spenser.
• MISJUDGE
  To judge erroneously or unjustly; to err in judgment; to misconstrue.
• ADMITTER
  One who admits.
• STATEHOOD
  The condition of being a State; as, a territory seeking Statehood.
• ENDORSER
  See INDORSER
• COMPARE
  To inflect according to the degrees of comparison; to state positive, comparative, and superlative forms of; as, most adjectives of one syllable are compared by affixing "-er" and "-est" to the positive form; as, black, blacker, blackest; those
• INTERROGATE
  To question formally; to question; to examine by asking questions; as, to interrogate a witness. Wilt thou, uncalled, interrogate, Talker! the unreplying Fate Emerson. Syn. -- To question; ask. See Question. (more info) interrogatus,
• PONDEROUS
  1. Very heavy; weighty; as, a ponderous shield; a ponderous load; the ponderous elephant. The sepulcher . . . Hath oped his ponderous and marble jaws. Shak. 2. Important; momentous; forcible. "Your more ponderous and settled project." Shak. 3.
• AFFIRMATIVELY
  In an affirmative manner; on the affirmative side of a question; in the affirmative; -- opposed to negatively.
• INFERNALLY
  In an infernal manner; diabolically. "Infernally false." Bp. Hacket.
• CONSIDERINGLY
  With consideration or deliberation.
• INDECOMPOSABLENESS
  Incapableness of decomposition; stability; permanence; durability.
• DECOLLATED
  Decapitated; worn or cast off in the process of growth, as the apex of certain univalve shells.
• CREBRICOSTATE
  Marked with closely set ribs or ridges.
• DENUNCIATE
  To denounce; to condemn publicly or solemnly. To denunciate this new work. Burke.
• CALLOW
  1. Destitute of feathers; naked; unfledged. An in the leafy summit, spied a nest, Which, o'er the callow young, a sparrow pressed. Dryden. 2. Immature; boyish; "green"; as, a callow youth. I perceive by this, thou art but a callow maid. Old Play .
• HALLOW
  To make holy; to set apart for holy or religious use; to consecrate; to treat or keep as sacred; to reverence. "Hallowed be thy name." Matt. vi. 9. Hallow the Sabbath day, to do no work therein. Jer. xvii. 24. His secret altar touched with hallowed
• EQUIPONDERANCE; EQUIPONDERANCY
  Equality of weight; equipoise.
• SUPERREFLECTION
  The reflection of a reflected image or sound. Bacon.
• SAGEBRUSH STATE
  Nevada; -- a nickname.
• THRYFALLOW
  To plow for the third time in summer; to trifallow. Tusser.