deliberate
di li buh ruht
- v think about carefully; weigh
- v discuss the pros and cons of an issue
- s carefully thought out in advance
- s unhurried and with care and dignity
with all deliberate speed
- Fuller made a deliberate attempt to break the sleep habit, with excellent results.
- This deliberate move was not wholly undramatic.
- Ericsson calls this exertion "deliberate practice," by which he means the kind of practice we hate, the kind that leads to failure and hair-pulling and fist-pounding.