Antonyms 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

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

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

2. deliberateadjective

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

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

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1. deliberate, calculated, measuredadjective

   carefully thought out in advance

   "a calculated insult"; "with measured irony"

   Antonyms:
   unintended, hurried

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

2. careful, deliberate, measuredverb

   unhurried and with care and dignity

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

   Antonyms:
   hurried, unintended

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

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"

   Antonyms:
   unintended, hurried

   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

4. debate, deliberateverb

   discuss the pros and cons of an issue

   Antonyms:
   unintended, hurried

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

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1. deliberateadjective

   Antonyms:
   accidental, unconscious, unpremeditated, unintentional

   Synonyms:
   intentional, premeditated, prepense, done on purpose

Editors ContributionRate these antonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. accidently

   i read from oxford advanced learner's dictionary

   i accidently left my dictionary at school

   Submitted by rinat on June 11, 2017  

How to use deliberate in a sentence?

1. Alamos CEO John McCluskey:

   It is a very cynical thing to say, but I believe that this whole attack is essentially just an environmental cloak that is being put over what is really a deep political agenda, what I've never experienced in the past is where there has been very deliberate misinformation about this project that is being published in an effort to get very rapidly a very emotive social media response.

2. Latin Proverb:

   Deliberate often--decide once.

3. Leonard Rubenstein:

   The pattern of indiscriminate attacks amounts to a war crime just as a deliberate attack is, so if these are confirmed after investigation – and of course, we don't have those investigations yet – they could be war crimes.

4. Elissa Montanti:

   War is one thing, stepping on a land mine is one thing, but this is so deliberate. It is one human to another, causing such incredible pain that I can't comprehend it.

5. Maryam Sharif:

   The same five-judge panel will deliberate on this and make a judgment, the matter is still very much in the hands of the judiciary.

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