Meanings
comparative more deliberately · superlative most deliberately
- Intentionally, or after deliberation; not accidentally.
He deliberately broke that, didn't he?
2 more examples
Major funding for this book was made possible by deliberately starving a family of four in Tennessee.
2004, George Carlin, When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?, New York: Hyperion Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page https://archive.org/details/whenwilljesusbri00hype/page/n9/“As a result, OCR found that the district’s pattern of inconsistent responses to reports it received of sexual harassment – infrequently responding under Title IX or not responding at all – rose to the level that the district’s response to some families’ sexual harassment reports was deliberately indifferent to students’ civil rights,” a news release from DOE reads.
2024 November 14, Lauren del Valle, “After suicide of nonbinary teen, DOE finds multiple Title IX violations at Oklahoma school district”, in CNN
Synonyms & antonyms
adverbwith intention; in an intentional manner
adverbin a deliberate unhurried manner
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
Translations
Arabic عُمْداً
- عُمْداً (ʕumdan)intentionally
Bulgarian умишлено
- умишлено (umišleno)intentionally
Catalan deliberadament, prudentment
- deliberadamentintentionally
- prudentmentslowly and carefully
Chinese Cantonese 故意, 特登
- 故意 (gu³ ji³)intentionally
- 特登intentionally
- 專登 /专登intentionally
Chinese Mandarin 故意, 蓄意
- 故意 (gùyì)intentionally
- 蓄意 (xùyì)intentionally
- 有意 (yǒuyì)intentionally
- 刻意 (kèyì)intentionally
- 存心 (cúnxīn)intentionally
Czech záměrně
- záměrněintentionally
Danish bevidst, med vilje
- bevidstintentionally
- med viljeintentionally
- langsomtslowly and carefully
- roligtslowly and carefully
- sindigtslowly and carefully
Dutch bewust, expres
- bewustintentionally
- expresintentionally
- opzettelijkintentionally
- met opzetintentionally
Finnish tahallaan, harkitusti
- tahallaanintentionally
- harkitustiintentionally
- tarkoituksellaintentionally
- tarkoituksellisestiintentionally
- verkkaisestislowly and carefully
- verkkaanslowly and carefully
French exprès
- exprèsintentionally
German mit Absicht, absichtlich
- mit Absichtintentionally
- absichtlichintentionally
- vorsätzlichintentionally
- bedächtigslowly and carefully
- vorsichtigslowly and carefully
Greek επίτηδες
- επίτηδες (epítides)intentionally
Hebrew בכוונה
- בכוונה (be'khavana)intentionally
Hindi जानबूझकर
- जानबूझकर (jānbūjhkar)intentionally
Hungarian szándékosan
- szándékosanintentionally
Icelandic viljandi, vísvitandi
- viljandiintentionally
- vísvitandiintentionally
- af ásettu ráðiintentionally
- af yfirlögðu ráðiintentionally
- yfirvegaðslowly and carefully
- rólegaslowly and carefully
Italian intenzionalmente, deliberatamente
- intenzionalmenteintentionally
- deliberatamenteintentionally
- per partito presointentionally
Japanese 故意に, わざと
- 故意に (koi-ni)intentionally
- わざと (wazato)intentionally
- じっくり (jikkuri)slowly and carefully
Latin consultō
- consultōintentionally
Persian عمداً
- عمداً ('amdan)intentionally
Polish celowo, rozmyślnie
- celowointentionally
- rozmyślnieintentionally
- umyślnieintentionally
- uważnieslowly and carefully
Portuguese deliberadamente, deliberadamente
- deliberadamenteintentionally
- deliberadamenteslowly and carefully
Romanian deliberat, intenționat
- deliberatintentionally
- intenționatintentionally
- dinadinsintentionally
- înadinsintentionally
Russian наме́ренно, созна́тельно
- наме́ренно (namérenno)intentionally
- созна́тельно (soznátelʹno)intentionally
- наро́чно (naróčno)intentionally
- умы́шленно (umýšlenno)intentionally
- ме́дленно (médlenno)slowly and carefully
Scottish Gaelic a dh'aon ghnothach
- a dh'aon ghnothachintentionally
Slovak úmyselne, schválne
- úmyselneintentionally
- schválneintentionally
- zámerneintentionally
- rozvážneslowly and carefully
Spanish deliberadamente, deliberadamente
- deliberadamenteintentionally
- deliberadamenteslowly and carefully
- largo y tendidoslowly and carefully
Thai เจตนา
- เจตนา (jèet-dtà-naa)intentionally
Turkish bile bile, kasten
- bile bileintentionally
- kastenintentionally
- kasıtlıcaintentionally
Ukrainian навми́сно, свідо́мо
- навми́сно (navmýsno)intentionally
- свідо́мо (svidómo)intentionally
- нароком (narokom)intentionally
- уми́сно (umýsno)intentionally
- зуми́сно (zumýsno)intentionally
- наро́шне (naróšne)intentionally
- зна́рошне (znárošne)intentionally
- нарочи́то (naročýto)intentionally
- зна́рошна (znárošna)intentionally
- назна́рошне (naznárošne)intentionally
- назнаро́шне (naznaróšne)intentionally
- назна́рошки (naznárošky)intentionally
Cite this entry
deliberately. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/deliberately
“deliberately.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/deliberately. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “deliberately,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/deliberately.
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