deliberately meaning

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Definition of deliberately in English Dictionary

• AdverbCOMmore deliberatelySUPmost deliberatelyPREdé-SUF-ly+-
  1. Intentionally, or after deliberation; not accidentally.
     1. He deliberately broke that, didn't he?
  2. Taking one's time, slowly and carefully.
     1. After being called upon, he strode deliberately up to the blackboard.
• More Examples
  1. Used in the Middle of Sentence
     • It is desired that the following advices be deliberately read in each subordinate select meeting, at least once in the year:
     • The investigations generally agree that the administration’s postattack talking points — a matter of much dispute — were flawed but not deliberately misleading.
     • Instead of having a nice modular eggcrate, we now want to build an immodular eggcrate. Deliberately we want to impose upon future teachers, not the nice simple eggcrate, but a more complicated one.

• Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
  1. Adverbs
     • Act-related adverbs
     • Manner adverbs
  2. Morphemes
     • Suffixes
       • Words by suffix
         • Words suffixed with -ly

Other Vocabulary

1. en deliberate
2. en deliberated
3. en deliberates
4. fr délibérâtes
5. en deliberatest