deliberate

Synonyms

chew over, cogitate, consider, contemplate, debate, entertain, eye, kick around, meditate, mull (over), perpend, ponder, pore (over), question, revolve, ruminate, study, think (about or over), turn, weigh, wrestle (with);

Near Antonyms

disregard, ignore, overlook, slight;

dismiss, pooh-pooh (also pooh), reject;

Related Words

muse (upon), reflect (on or upon), reminisce;

analyze, explore, review;

conclude, reason;

second-guess, speculate (about);

brood (about or over), dwell (on or upon), fixate (on or upon), fret (about or over), obsess (about or over);

believe, conceive, opine;

absorb, assimilate, digest, drink (in);

Phrases

beat one's brains out (about), chew on, cudgel one's brains (about), look at;

Synonyms

conscious, intended, intentional, knowing, purposeful, purposive, set, voluntary, willed, willful (or wilful), witting;

Antonyms

nondeliberate, nonpurposive, unintentional;

Near Antonyms

inadvertent, unwitting;

accidental, chance, haphazard, hit-or-miss, incidental, random;

aimless, desultory, purposeless;

abrupt, impetuous, sudden;

coerced, forced, involuntary;

compulsory, mandatory, necessary, nonelective, obligatory, ordered, required;

extemporaneous, impromptu, impulsive, instinctive, spontaneous, unforced, unpremeditated;

Related Words

designed, planned;

conscious;

advised, calculated, considered, measured, reasoned, studied, thoughtful, weighed;

premeditated, premeditative, prepense;

discretionary, elective, optional, volunteer;