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Deliberate vs Advertent - What's the difference?

deliberate | advertent |

As adjectives the difference between deliberate and advertent

is that deliberate is done on purpose; intentional while advertent is attentive.

As a verb deliberate

is to consider carefully.

deliberate

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Done on purpose; intentional.
  • Tripping me was deliberate action.
  • Of a person, weighing facts and arguments with a view to a choice or decision; carefully considering the probable consequences of a step; circumspect; slow in determining.
  • The jury took eight hours to come to its deliberate verdict.
  • Formed with deliberation; well-advised; carefully considered; not sudden or rash.
  • a deliberate''' opinion; a '''deliberate measure or result
  • * Shakespeare
  • settled visage and deliberate word
  • Not hasty or sudden; slow.
  • * W. Wirt
  • His enunciation was so deliberate .

    Antonyms

    * (intentional) unwitting

    Verb

    (deliberat)
  • To consider carefully.
  • It is now time for the jury to deliberate the guilt of the defendant.

    advertent

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Attentive.
  • * 1828 , Matthew Hale, David Young, On the Knowledge of Christ Crucified: And Other Divine Contemplations , page 227
  • Is he rich, prosperous, great? yet he continues safe, because he continues humble, watchful, advertent , lest he should be deceived and transported
  • Not inadvertent; intentional.
  • * 1963 , Philippine Law Journal , page 442
  • There is such thing as advertent negligence in which the harm is foreseen as possible or probable.
  • * 1998 , Keith John Michael Smith, Lawyers, Legislators and Theorists: Developments in English Criminal Law , page 283
  • Until the 1950s, for judges both the conceptual and terminological identification of advertent risk taking — subjective recklessness — often lay submerged within the amorphous notion of 'malice' [....]

    Usage notes

    * This term is much rarer than its opposite inadvertent .

    Antonyms

    * (intentional) inadvertent ----