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Definition: Deliberative |
DeliberativeAdjective1. Involved in or characterized by deliberation and discussion and examination; "a deliberative body". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "deliberative" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1790. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Council | Adjective: senatorial, curule; congressional, parliamentary; legislative, law-making; regulatory; deliberative. |
Thought | Adjective: thinking; Verb: thoughtful, pensive, meditative, reflective, museful, wistful, contemplative, speculative, deliberative, studious, sedate, introspective, Platonic, philosophical. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Deliberative |
| English words defined with "deliberative": accept ♦ chamber, closure, cloture ♦ Deliberatively ♦ gag rule, General Assembly ♦ motion ♦ parliamentary, previous question ♦ question ♦ speaker ♦ To bring in, To lie over. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "deliberative": Preside ♦ Quorum. (references) |
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 | The greatest deliberative body in the world.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | A great deliberative assembly.Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Political Rights | Malaysia | Over the years, Parliament's function as a deliberative body has deteriorated. (references) |
Bangladesh | Parliament's effectiveness as a deliberative body is undermined further by the country's relatively narrow partisan politics. (references) | |
Bahamas | Although it does pass legislation, the Senate is primarily a deliberative body that serves as a public forum to discuss national problems and policies. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Mauritania | All three confederations supplied representatives to the country's four labor tribunals and were included in most government deliberative or consultative bodies. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | QUORUM, n. A sufficient number of members of a deliberative body to have their own way and their own way of having it. In the United States Senate a quorum consists of the chairman of the Committee on Finance and a messenger from the White House; in the House of Representatives, of the Speaker and the devil. |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Deliberative" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 97.62% of the time. "Deliberative" is used about 42 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 97.62% | 41 | 53,521 |
| Noun (proper) | 2.38% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 42 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
deliberative democracy | 4 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "deliberative"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | diskutues (debater, disputant). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | съвещателен (advisory, consultative), който очертава политика, обмислен (advised, calculated, cold blooded, conscious, considered, deliberate, measured, premeditated, studious, thought-out, voluntary), на размисъл, предпазлив (cagey, canny, careful, cautious, chary, circumspect, cosy, deliberate, discreet, fabian, gingerly, guarded, open-eyed, precautious, prudent, sparing, ware, wary). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | "讨 (Deliberated, Deliberating, Deliberation, Deliberatively). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | poradní (advisory, consultative, consulting). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | délibérant (deliberating). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | beratend (advisory, consultant, consultative, consulting, deliberatively). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | συμβουλευτικόσ (advisory, consultative, monitorial, monitory, preachy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | tanácskozó (sitting). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | deliberativo. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 米価審議会 (Rice Price Deliberative Council), 米審 (Rice Price Deliberative Council). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | べいし" (Rice Price Deliberative Council), べいかし"ぎかい (Rice Price Deliberative Council). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 중한 (Deliberate, Discreet, Prudent, Prudential, thoughtful). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | eliberativeday deliberativo. (various references) deliberativ, consultativ (advisory, consultative). (various references) совещательный (advisory, consultative). (various references) savetodavni (advisory, consulting). (various references) deliberativo. (various references) reflekterande (reflective), rådgivande (advisory, consultative), betänksam (cautious, deliberate, hesitant, hesitative). (various references) düşünen (careful, considering, regardful, thinking), tedbirli (advised, cagey, canny, careful, cautious, circumspect, deliberate, discreet, fabian, fail-proof, fail-safe, forethoughtful, guarded, politic, precautionary, prudent, prudential, tactical, wary, well advised), ihtiyatlı (cagey, cautious, chary, discreet, fabian, forethoughtful, guarded, heedful, politic, precautionary, provident, prudent, prudential, restrained, shy, temperate, undemonstrative, vigilant, waiting, wary, well advised), üzerinde düşünülmüş. (various references) схильний до роздумів, дорадний. (various references) thảo luận. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "deliberative": deliberatively, deliberativeness, deliberativenesses. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "deliberative" (pronounced duli"berā'tiv) |
| 6 | -b er ā' t i v | collaborative. |
| 5 | -er ā' t i v | cooperative, iterative. |
| 4 | -ā' t i v | accommodative, accumulative, administrative, appreciative, authoritative, dissipative, elucidative, facultative, imitative, innovative, investigative, legislative, manipulative, meditative, prognosticative, qualitative, quantitative, regulative, rehabilitative, stimulative. |
| 3 | -t i v | abortive, accusative, acquisitive, active, adaptive, addictive, additive, adjective, adoptive, affective, affirmative, alliterative, alternative, anticompetitive, appointive, argumentative, assaultive, assertive, attentive, attractive, automotive, captive, causative, cognitive, collective, combative, commemorative, communicative, comparative, competitive, conductive, congestive, connective, consecutive, conservative, constructive, consultative, contemplative, contraceptive, corrective, corruptive, counterproductive, creative, cumulative, curative, deceptive, decorative, defective, definitive, degenerative, demonstrative, derivative, descriptive, destructive, detective, digestive, dilutive, diminutive, directive, disincentive, disparages, dispositive, disruptive, distinctive, distributive, duplicative, effective, elective, eruptive, evocative, executive, exhaustive, expletive, exploitative, exploitive, Federative, festive, figurative, fixative, formative, fugitive, furtive, generative, hyperactive, hypersensitive, illustrative, imaginative, imperative, inactive, inattentive, incentive, indicative, ineffective, infective, infinitive, informative, initiative, injunctive, inoperative, inquisitive, insensitive, instinctive, instructive, interactive, interpretive, introspective, intuitive, invective, inventive, irrespective, laxative, locomotive, lucrative, motive, narrative, native, negative, neoconservative, nonautomotive, noncompetitive, noncumulative, nonexecutive, nonnative, nonproductive, normative, nutritive, objective, obstructive, octave, operative, overactive, palliative, participative, pejorative, perceptive, perspective, photoconductive, plaintive, positive, predictive, preemptive, prerogative, preservative, presumptive, preventative, preventive, primitive, proactive, probative, productive, prohibitive, projective, prospective, protective, provocative, punitive, putative, radioactive, reactive, receptive, reconstructive, recuperative, redemptive, redistributive, reflective, refractive, relative, remunerative, rep, repetitive, representative, reproductive, respective, restive, restorative, restrictive, retroactive, retrospective, secretive, sedative, seductive, selective, sensitive, speculative, subjective, substantive, suggestive, superconductive, superlative, supportive, talkative, tentative, ultraconservative, unattractive, uncompetitive, uncooperative, unimaginative, uninformative, unproductive, unreceptive, unrepresentative, vegetative, vindictive, vituperative. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-d-e-e-e-i-i-l-r-t-v" | |
-2 letters: deliberate. | |
-3 letters: derivable, diablerie, driveable, liberated, veritable, vibratile. | |
-4 letters: beavered, bedrivel, believed, believer, bereaved, breveted, derivate, detailer, deverbal, diatribe, dilative, drivable, editable, elaterid, elevated, evadible, evitable, ideative, laveered, levirate, liberate, librated, liveried, rebaited, relative, relieved, retailed, revealed, rideable, traveled, vibrated, vitiable. | |
-5 letters: alerted, alibied, altered, atelier, averted, beadier, bedevil, bedrail, beetled, beetler, belated, believe, berated, bereave, beveled, beveler, bleared, bleated, bleater, bleeder, brailed, debater, deleave, deliria, deliver, deviate, dilater, driblet, elative, elevate, everted, leadier, leavier, levered, leveret, librate, raveled, rebated, redbait, redtail, related, relieve, relived, retable, retiled, reveled, reviled, ridable, rivaled, riveted, tabered, trailed, treadle, trebled, triable, tribade, trivial, valeted, vealier, verbile, vibrate, virelai. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-d-e-e-e-i-i-l-r-t-v" | |
+2 letters: deliberatively. | |
+4 letters: deliberativeness, deliverabilities. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 65 6C 69 62 65 72 61 74 69 76 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.. . .-.. .. -... . .-. .- - .. ...- . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01100101 01101100 01101001 01100010 01100101 01110010 01100001 01110100 01101001 01110110 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D e l i b e r a t i v e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0065 006C 0069 0062 0065 0072 0061 0074 0069 0076 0065 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)387178756871846786758871 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Images: Photo Album | 5. Quotations: Non-fiction 6. Usage Frequency 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Derivations 10. Rhymes 11. Anagrams 12. Orthography | 13. Bibliography |
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