deliberate

adj

1. Done on purpose; intentional.

   “a deliberate attempt to cover up his crime”

   “The massacre of up to 8,000 Bosnian Muslims at Srebrenica in 1995 was an act of genocide in a deliberate attempt by the Bosnian Serb leadership to exterminate part of the Muslim community, appeal judges ruled in a crucial case at the international war crimes tribunal in The Hague yesterday.”

2. Formed with deliberation; carefully considered; not sudden or rash.

   “a deliberate opinion; a deliberate measure or result”

   “settled visage and deliberate word”

3. Of a person, weighing facts and arguments with a view to a choice or decision; carefully considering the probable consequences of a step; slow in determining.

   “The jury took eight hours to come to its deliberate verdict.”

4. Not hasty or sudden; slow.

   “His enunciation was so deliberate.”

verb

1. (transitive)To consider carefully; to weigh well in the mind.

   “It is now time for the jury to deliberate the guilt of the defendant.”

2. (intransitive)To consider the reasons for and against anything; to reflect.