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. - ADVICE
Counseling to perform a specific illegal act. Wharton. Advice boat, a vessel employed to carry dispatches or to reconnoiter; a dispatch boat. -- To take advice. To accept advice. To consult with another or others. Syn. -- Counsel; suggestion; - 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 . - EQUIPONDERANCE; EQUIPONDERANCY
Equality of weight; equipoise. - 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 - 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.