Thesaurus / deliberates
other words for deliberates
MOST RELEVANT
- consider
- consult
- contemplate
- mull over
- ponder
- reflect
- weigh
- argue
- cerebrate
- cogitate
- debate
- excogitate
- judge
- meditate
- muse
- reason
- revolve
- roll
- ruminate
- speculate
- study
- bat it around
- chew over
- hammer away at
- kick around
- knock around
- pour it on
- put on thinking cap
- rack brains
- run up a flagpole
- stew over
- sweat over
- talk over
- turn over
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Amidst agonies which cannot be conceived without horror, he deliberates, resolves, and even exults.
Who, when he is deliberating, cares about his own deliberation, and not about obtaining that about which he deliberates?
The latter holds a fixed end in view and deliberates only upon means of reaching it.
HUMAN NATURE AND CONDUCTJOHN DEWEY
At this point the presiding officer of the court ordered the room cleared "while the court deliberates."
RECOLLECTIONS OF A VARIED LIFEGEORGE CARY EGGLESTON
Rickman's errors had been the errors of one who risks everything, who never deliberates or counts the cost.
THE DIVINE FIREMAY SINCLAIR
As the spectre approaches, he deliberates with himself, and determines, that whatever it be he will venture to address it.
NOTES TO SHAKESPEARE, VOLUME III: THE TRAGEDIESSAMUEL JOHNSON
Mr. G., also a lawyer—I waive the military titles—moves cautiously, deliberates and debates, but perseveres.
The Poet deliberates whether he shall continue to write Elegies, or whether he shall turn to Tragedy.
He must decide at once, not waiting to deliberate and balance reasons; for the youth, like “the woman who deliberates, is lost.”
SELF-HELPSAMUEL SMILES
He was deliberating; and I wish you to understand that in a case like this "the child that deliberates is lost."
LITTLE GRANDFATHERSOPHIE MAY