| Main Entry: | deliberate |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | intentional |
Synonyms: |
advised, aforethought, calculated, careful, cautious, cold-blooded, conscious, considered, cut-and-dried, designed, designful, done on purpose, express, fixed, intended, judged, meticulous, planned, pondered, prearranged, predesigned, predeterminate, predetermined, premeditated, prepense, projected, provident, prudent, purposed, purposeful, purposive, reasoned, resolved, schemed, scrupulous, studied, studious, thought out, thoughtful, voluntary, wary, weighed, willful, with forethought, witting |
Antonyms: |
chance, indeterminate, unintentional, unmethodical, unsystematic, unwitting |
| Main Entry: | methodical/methodic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | organized, precise |
Synonyms: |
all together, analytical, businesslike, by the book, by the numbers, careful, cut-and-dried, deliberate, disciplined, efficient, exact, fixed, framed, in a groove, logical, methodized, meticulous, neat, ordered, orderly, painstaking, planned, regular, scrupulous, set-up, structured, systematic, tidy, together, well-regulated |
Antonyms: |
confused, disorderly, disorganized, imprecise, unmethodical/unmethodic |
| Main Entry: | open-and-shut |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | pretty much decided |
Synonyms: |
apparent, assured, cinched, clear, clear as a bell, clear-cut, conclusive, cut and dried, distinguishable, easy, evident, explicit, glaring, guaranteed, iced, in the bag, indisputable, nailed down, obvious, ordinary, plain, routine, self-evident, self-explanatory, sewn up, simple, straightforward, undeniable, undisguised, unmistakable |
| Main Entry: | predetermined |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | decided in advance |
Synonyms: |
agreed, arranged, calculated, cut and dried, deliberate, destined, determined, doomed, fated, fixed, foredestined, foreordained, forethought, planned, prearranged, precogitated, predestined, premeditated, preordained, preplanned, proposed, set, set up, settled |
Antonyms: |
unarranged, undetermined, unplanned, unsettled |
| Main Entry: | usual |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | common, typical |
Synonyms: |
accepted, accustomed, average, chronic, commonplace, constant, conventional, current, customary, cut-and-dried, everyday, expected, familiar, fixed, frequent, garden variety, general, grind, habitual, mainstream, matter-of-course, natural, normal, ordinary, plain, plastic, prevailing, prevalent, quotidian, regular, rife, routine, run-of-the-mill, so-so, standard, stock, typic, unremarkable, vanilla, white-bread, wonted, workaday |
| Notes: | habitual means made a norm or custom or habit or fixed practice; customary means in accordance with convention or custom; usual means commonly or normally encountered, experienced, or observed |
Antonyms: |
abnormal, atypical, irregular, uncommon, unusual |
| Main Entry: | cut-and-dried |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | decided and fixed |
Synonyms: |
definite, destined, familiar, fated, fixed, in the cards, old hat, ordained, ordinary, plotted, prearranged, precise, routine, set, settled, specific, trite, written |
Antonyms: |
vague |
| Main Entry: | formulaic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | ordinary |
Synonyms: |
average, common, commonplace, conventional, customary, cut-and-dried, everyday, garden-variety, imitative, mechanical, normal, plain, routine, run-of-the-mill, standard, stock, undistinguished, unexceptional, unoriginal, unremarkable, usual |
| Main Entry: | garden-variety |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | ordinary |
Synonyms: |
average, characterless, common, commonplace, conventional, cut-and-dried, dull, fair, familiar, formulaic, garden variety, garden*, generic, habitual, homespun, household, humble, indifferent, inferior, mean, mediocre, modest, no great shakes, normal, p |
| Main Entry: | methodic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | methodical |
Synonyms: |
all together, analytical, businesslike, by the book, by the numbers, careful, cut-and-dried, deliberate, disciplined, efficient, exact, fixed, framed, in a groove, logical, methodized, meticulous, neat, ordered, orderly, painstaking, planned, regular, scrupulous, set-up, structured, systematic, systematical, tidy, together, well-regulated |
| Main Entry: | systematical |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | methodical |
Synonyms: |
all together, analytical, businesslike, by the book, by the numbers, careful, cut-and-dried, deliberate, disciplined, efficient, exact, fixed, framed, in a groove, logical, methodic, methodized, meticulous, neat*, ordered, orderly, painstaking, planned, regular, scrupulous, set-up, structured, systematic, tidy, together, well-regulated |