| Deliberative 1. (a.) Pertaining to deliberation; proceeding or acting by deliberation, or by discussion and examination; deliberating; as, a deliberative body. 2. (n.) A discourse in which a question is discussed, or weighed and examined. 3. (n.) A kind of rhetoric employed in proving a thing and convincing others of its truth, in order to persuade them to adopt it. Thesaurus Entries admonition, admonitory, bulletin, cautionary, communicative, consultative, consultatory, council, deliberative, didactic, directive, educational, educative, enlightening, exhortative, exhortatory, expostulative, expostulatory, hortative, hortatory, informational, informative, informing, instructive, monitorial, monitory, moralistic, notice, preachy, prediction, recommendatory, remonstrant, remonstrative, remonstratory, sententious, synodal, synodic, warning |