Usually means: Intentionally, with purpose and awareness.
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We found 23 dictionaries that define the word deliberately:

General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. deliberately: Merriam-Webster
  2. deliberately: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. deliberately: Collins English Dictionary
  4. deliberately: Vocabulary.com
  5. Deliberately, deliberately: Wordnik
  6. deliberately: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. deliberately: Wiktionary
  8. Deliberately, deliberately: Dictionary.com
  9. deliberately: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. Deliberately: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. deliberately: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  12. deliberately: Rhymezone
  13. Deliberately: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. deliberately: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  15. deliberately: FreeDictionary.org
  16. deliberately: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. deliberately: TheFreeDictionary.com
  18. deliberately: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. deliberately: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. deliberately: Legal dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. deliberately: Idioms

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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ adverb:  Intentionally, or after deliberation; not accidentally.
▸ adverb:  Taking one's time, slowly and carefully.

Similar:
purposely, intentionally, advisedly, designedly, by design, measuredly, by choice, on purpose, purposefully, wilfully, more...

Opposite:
accidentally, inadvertently, carelessly, unintentionally, spontaneously

Types:
accidentally, on purpose, more...

Phrases:
deliberately not notice, move deliberately, deliberately avoid, deliberately vague, deliberately failed to succeed, more...

Colors:
    charcoal,     burgundy,     olive,     maroon,     teal, more...



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Similar:
purposely, intentionally, advisedly, designedly, by design, measuredly, by choice, on purpose, purposefully, wilfully, more...

Opposite:
accidentally, inadvertently, carelessly, unintentionally, spontaneously

Types:
accidentally, on purpose, more...

Phrases:
deliberately not notice, move deliberately, deliberately avoid, deliberately vague, deliberately failed to succeed, deliberately disobey, deliberately mislead, to deliberately imitate, sink deliberately, more...

Colors:
    charcoal,     burgundy,     olive,     maroon,     teal, more...



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