delegate, n. 1. representative, deputy, commissary, appointee, spokesperson; middleman, go-between, diplomat, intermediary, negotiator, negotiant; substitute, alternate, proxy, vice-regent, regent, viceroy, surrogate; functionary, commissioner, bureaucrat; ambassador, emissary, envoy, legate, minister; agent, messenger, operative; consul, plenipotentiary. -v. 2. commission, deputize, depute; elect, vote in, place in office, install, invest, induct, ordain; appoint, name, designate, nominate; charge, authorize, commit, entrust, empower, enable; assign, appropriate, consign, relegate, pass on, devolve.
delegation, n. 1. deputizing, deputation; appointment, designation, nomination; installation, investiture, induction, ordination; authorization, entrusting, empowering, charging; assignment, appropriation, relegation, devolvement.
2. delegates, deputies, embassy, legation; committee, subcommittee.
delete, v. cross out, strike out, scratch, x out, mark off, blue-pencil, Print, dele, Inf bleep out; erase, remove, take out, cancel, blot out, rub out, crush out, wipe out, efface, destroy; expunge, eradicate, obliterate.
deleterious, adj. pernicious, injurious, baneful, mischievous; harmful, hurtful, noxious, nocuous, noisome; baleful, menacing, malignant, bad; unwholesome, unhealthy, insalubrious; poisonous, venomous, virulent, toxic, mephitic, pestilential, pestiferous; detrimental, disadvantageous, damaging, destructive, ruinous; malicious, vicious, wicked, evil, malevolent; deadly, fell, fatal, mortal, lethal, killing; murderous, suicidal.
deliberate, adj. 1. intentional, purposeful, meant, destined, willful, volitional, voluntary; premeditated, preconceived, preconceptional, aforethought, predeterminate, predetermined, prepense; meditated, studious, studied, considered, weighed; preconcerted, prearranged, predesigned, preplanned, preplotted, predevised, precontrived; calculated, cold-blooded, designed, planned, plotted, schemed, devised, contrived, Obs. intrigued, Obs. consulted.
2. considerate, thoughtful, determined, decided, resolute, resolved, unwavering; methodical, methodic, systematic, orderly; cool, calm, collected, composed, unexcited, dispassionate; painstaking, thorough, meticulous, scrupulous, accurate, exact, precise; punctilious, fastidious, finicky, finical, particular; circumspect, cautious, careful, prudent, discreet; chary, wary, guarded, watchful, vigilant.
3. steady, even, regular, balanced; stable, solid, firm, secure, sure, confident, unhesitating, unhesitant, un-hesitative, unfaltering; leisurely, unhurried, slow, slow-paced, tortoise-like, snail-like; measured, gradual, paced; lingering, plodding, trudging, laborious, labored.
-v. 4. excogitate, consider, speculate, take to heart, Archaic, perpend; ponder, muse, think about; weigh, evaluate, revolve, review, study, scrutinize, examine, inspect, con.
5. contemplate, meditate, cogitate, rack one's brains, cudgel one's brain, trouble one's head; reflect on, think over, ruminate, chew, chew one's cud, brood, mull over, dwell on, be in a brown study; concentrate, focus, have one's mind on, put one's mind to; cerebrate, put on one's thinking cap, be abstracted, be lost in thought.
6. consult with, take counsel, confer with, advise with; discuss, debate, argue, reason.