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Deliberate vs Contemplative - What's the difference?

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Deliberate is a related term of contemplative.


As adjectives the difference between deliberate and contemplative

is that deliberate is done on purpose; intentional while contemplative is inclined to contemplate; introspective and thoughtful; meditative.

As a verb deliberate

is to consider carefully.

As a noun contemplative is

someone who has dedicated themselves to religious contemplation.

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.

    Related terms

    * deliberation * deliberative

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    contemplative

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Inclined to contemplate; introspective and thoughtful; meditative.
  • * 1873 , (John Stuart Mill), Autobiography , Chapter 5:
    • Compared with the greatest poets, he may be said to be the poet of unpoetical natures, possessed of quiet and contemplative tastes. But unpoetical natures are precisely those which require poetic cultivation. This cultivation Wordsworth is much more fitted to give, than poets who are intrinsically far more poets than he.
  • Pertaining especially to a contemplative Roman Catholic religious or one of the contemplative Roman Catholic religious orders.
  • * 1870 , (Charles Dickens), The Mystery of Edwin Drood , Chapter 3:
    • Whether the nuns of yore, being of a submissive rather than a stiff-necked generation, habitually bent their contemplative heads to avoid collision with the beams in the low ceilings of the many chambers of their House [...] may be matters of interest to its haunting ghosts (if any), but constitute no item in Miss Twinkleton's half-yearly accounts.
  • Relating to, or having the power of, contemplation.
    • contemplative faculties

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Someone who has dedicated themselves to religious contemplation.
  • * 2009 , (Karen Armstrong), The Case for God , Vintage 2010, p. 112:
    • The contemplative must not expect exotic feelings, visions or heavenly voices; these did not come from God but from his own fevered imagination and would merely distract him from his true objective [...].
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