Synonyms for deliberate
dɪˈlɪb ər ɪt; -əˌreɪtde·lib·er·ate

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1. deliberate

   An individual considers, meditates, ponders, reflects, by himself; he weighs a matter in his own mind, and is sometimes said even to debate with himself. Consult and confer always imply two or more persons, as does debate, unless expressly limited as above. Confer suggests the interchange of counsel, advice, or information; consult indicates almost exclusively the receiving of it. A man confers with his associates about a new investment; he consults his physician about his health; he may confer with him on matters of general interest. He consults a dictionary, but does not confer with it. Deliberate, which can be applied to a single individual, is also the word for a great number, while consult is ordinarily limited to a few; a committee consults; an assembly deliberates. Deliberating always carries the idea of slowness; consulting is compatible with haste; we can speak of a hasty consultation, not of a hasty deliberation. Debate implies opposing views; deliberate, simply a gathering and balancing of all facts and reasons. We consider or deliberate with a view to action, while meditation may be quite purposeless.

   Synonyms:
   confer, consider, consult, debate, meditate, ponder, reflect, weigh

   Preposition:
   We deliberate on or upon, also about or concerning a matter: the first two are preferable.

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1. deliberateverb

   Synonyms:
   consider, meditate, consult, weigh, reflect, ponder, debate, perpend

   Antonyms:
   shelve, burke, discard, hazard, chance, risk

2. deliberateadjective

   Synonyms:
   grave, purposed, intentional, designed, determined, resolute, earnest, unbiased, unprejudiced

   Antonyms:
   playful, jocose, facetious, irresolute, unresolved, undetermined, dubious, compulsory, suggested, dictated, instigated, biased, prejudiced

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1. deliberate, calculated, measuredadjective

   carefully thought out in advance

   "a calculated insult"; "with measured irony"

   Synonyms:
   mensurable, careful, metric, mensural, measured, calculated, metrical

   Antonyms:
   unintended, hurried

2. careful, deliberate, measuredverb

   unhurried and with care and dignity

   "walking at the same measured pace"; "with all deliberate speed"

   Synonyms:
   metric, thrifty, heedful, careful, mensurable, metrical, measured, calculated, mensural

   Antonyms:
   hurried, unintended

3. consider, debate, moot, turn over, deliberateverb

   think about carefully; weigh

   "They considered the possibility of a strike"; "Turn the proposal over in your mind"

   Synonyms:
   turn, reckon, dig, flip, pass on, weigh, view, debate, fence, reach, take, roll, study, see, deal, tump over, moot, think, contend, conceive, give, overturn, bowl over, delve, pass, tip over, count, upset, believe, flip over, turn over, regard, argue, consider, knock over, look at, hand, cut into

   Antonyms:
   unintended, hurried

4. debate, deliberateverb

   discuss the pros and cons of an issue

   Synonyms:
   consider, fence, moot, argue, turn over, contend, debate

   Antonyms:
   unintended, hurried

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1. deliberateverb

   Synonyms:
   reflect, ponder, consider, think, cogitate, ruminate, muse, meditate, take counsel with one's self

2. deliberateadjective

   Synonyms:
   wary, cautious, careful, circumspect, considerate, thoughtful

3. deliberateadjective

   Synonyms:
   well considered, well advised, not rash

4. deliberateadjective

   Synonyms:
   slow, not hasty

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1. deliberateadjective

   Synonyms:
   intentional, premeditated, prepense, done on purpose

   Antonyms:
   accidental, unconscious, unpremeditated, unintentional

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1. List of paraphrases for "deliberate":

   intentional, wilful, premeditated, deliberately, willful, wilfully, conscious, voluntary, purposeful, intentionally, wanton, systematic

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1. Jonathan Greenblatt:

   Well, Whoopi, there’s no question that the Holocaust was about race. That’s how the Nazis saw it as they perpetrated the systematic annihilation of the Jewish people across continents, across countries with deliberate and ruthless cruelty, you see, Hitler’s ideology, the Third Reich, was predicated on the idea that the Aryans, the Germans, were a ‘master race,’ and the Jews were a subhuman race. It was racialized anti-Semitism.

2. Roger Rasheed:

   I'd be deliberate about changing the way things look, i'd do little things that actually need to rattle the cage because at the moment everything is in Serena's favor.

3. Christopher Mattei:

   It seems to us that Alex Jones has made a deliberate decision that Alex Jones would rather suffer the contempt of court rather than expose Alex Jones to deposition.

4. Stacey Abrams:

   Make no mistake, the former secretary of state was deliberate and intentional in his actions, i know that eight years of systemic disenfranchisement, disinvestment and incompetence had its desired affect on the electoral process in Georgia.

5. Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee:

   Johnson, 68, faces execution after being convicted in the 1984 murder of Connie Johnson, Connie Johnson. Several religious leaders, include the president of the worldwide Seventh-day Adventist Church, of which Johnson is a member, have urged Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee to grant Johnson clemency. Johnsons supporters said the inmate experienced a religious conversion and now ministers to other prisoners. BOY, 8, FINDS GUN AND ACCIDENTALLY SHOOTS MOM AT COLLEGE BASEBALL GAME On Tuesday, Leeannounced his decision to deny clemencyfor Johnson, FOX 17 reported. After a prayerful and deliberate consideration of Don Johnsons request for clemency, and after a thorough review of the case, I am upholding the sentence of the State of Tennessee and will not be intervening.