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# deliberate

«deliberate» in Mova's school dictionary: **done on purpose, not by accident** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 4 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective (deliberate); verb (deliberate, deliberates, deliberated, deliberating)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Something deliberate is done on purpose, not by accident. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/deliberate/#m1)

2) Deliberate movements or speech are slow and careful. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/deliberate/#m2)

3) (formal, verb) To deliberate is to think about something carefully or talk about it for a long time before deciding. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/deliberate/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In stories and in playground fights it tells whether someone meant to do something: "It was deliberate!" In sport, a deliberate foul is punished more. In formal texts a jury or committee deliberates. Phrases: a deliberate act, deliberate mistake, deliberate over/about.

### examples

- That trip was deliberate, not an accident! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/deliberate/#x1)
- He made a deliberate mistake to see if we were listening. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/deliberate/#x2)
- She walked with slow, deliberate steps across the ice. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/deliberate/#x3)
- The judges deliberated for an hour before choosing the winner. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/deliberate/#x4)
- Breaking the window was not deliberate; the ball slipped. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/deliberate/#x5)
- The referee gave a red card for a deliberate handball. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/deliberate/#x6)
- The council deliberated about the new park. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/deliberate/#x7)
- Write each number in slow, deliberate strokes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/deliberate/#x8)
- The trusty servant deliberated for a long while how to set about this business, for it was very difficult to get into the presence of the King's daughter. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/deliberate/#x9)

### note

Two pronunciations: adjective ends "-rit" (de-LIB-er-it); verb ends "-rate" (de-LIB-er-ate). Adverb: deliberately = on purpose. Opposite: accidental. "Deliberate" as a verb is formal.

### In the corpora

- [In the UK a strike is legal after a vote, and the disruption is deliberate so that people notice.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/4-when-work-goes-wrong/13/)
- [Deliberate practice means working on purpose on the parts you cannot do yet, slowly and carefully.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/3-practising-when-you-would-rather-not/8/)
- ["Strategic misrepresentation" means deliberate lying to win approval, for example hiding a project's real cost.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/28-stealing-and-lying/24/)
- ["Cost an arm and a leg" means cost a lot of money; it is a deliberate exaggeration, called hyperbole.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/25-idioms-taken-literally/8/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «deliberate» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/deliberate/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.