1. Weighing facts and arguments with a view to 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.”
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.
His enunciation was so deliberate. --W. Wirt.
De·lib·er·ate v. t. [imp. & p. p. Deliberated; p. pr. & vb. n. Deliberating.] To weigh in the mind; to consider the reasons for and against; to consider maturely; to reflect upon; to ponder; as, to deliberate a question.
De·lib·er·ate, v. i. To take counsel with one's self; to weigh the arguments for and against a proposed course of action; to reflect; to consider; to hesitate in deciding; -- sometimes with on, upon, about, concerning.
The woman that deliberates is lost. --Addison.
adj 1: by conscious design or purpose; "intentional damage"; "a
knowing attempt to defraud"; "a willful waste of time"
[syn: intentional, knowing, willful, wilful]
2: with care and dignity; "walking at the same measured pace";
"with all deliberate speed" [syn: careful, measured]
3: produced or marked by conscious design or premeditation; "a
studied smile"; "a note of biting irony and studied
insult"- V.L.Parrington [syn: studied] [ant: unstudied]
4: marked by careful consideration or reflection; "a deliberate
5: carefully thought out in advance; "a calculated insult";
"with measured irony" [syn: calculated, measured]
v 1: think about carefully; weigh; "They considered the
possibility of a strike"; "Turn the proposal over in
your mind" [syn: consider, debate, moot, turn
2: discuss the pros and cons of an issue [syn: debate]