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Pronunciation: [pɹɪmˈɛdɪtˌe͡ɪtɪd] (IPA)

Premeditated refers to something that has been planned or thought out in advance. Some synonyms for this term include intentional, deliberate, calculated, purposeful, and preplanned. These words depict a type of behavior where an individual has made a conscious decision to act in a certain way. Other synonyms that can be used interchangeably with premeditated may include prearranged, preconceived, predetermined, and premeditatedly. Each of these words is used to describe an action that was carefully thought-out before being executed. By using these words in place of premeditated, writing can become more varied and engaging.

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What are the opposite words for premeditated?

Premeditated is an adjective that refers to a planned or deliberate action. Its antonyms are spontaneous, impromptu, and accidental. Spontaneous refers to something done on the spur of the moment, without any prior plan. Impromptu means something done or said without preparation, on the spur of the moment. Accidental refers to something that happens unexpectedly or by chance, without any intention or preplanning. These antonyms, in contrast to premeditated, suggest actions that are unplanned, unexpected, and free from preconceived notions. So, while premeditated actions require preconceived planning, spontaneous, impromptu, and accidental actions are influenced by natural behavior and situation-specific factors.

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Usage examples for Premeditated

Would not the cold and premeditated operation inflict far greater mental and even physical suffering than a sudden wound received in a moment of excitement?
"The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Exodus"
G. A. Chadwick
The affair was premeditated?
"The Greater Power"
Harold Bindloss W. Herbert Dunton
She had never, so far as she could remember, told an actual and premeditated lie before.
"Girls of the Forest"
L. T. Meade

Famous quotes with Premeditated

  • What then is capital punishment but the most premeditated of murders, to which no criminal's deed, however calculated it may be, can be compared For there to be an equivalence, the death penalty would have to punish a criminal, who had warned his victim of the date at which he would inflict a horrible death on him, and who from that moment onward had confined him at his mercy for months. Such a monster is not encountered in private life.
    Albert Camus
  • The allegories of the "fall of man" and the "deluge," are the two most important features of the Pentateuch. They are, so to say, the Alpha and Omega, the highest and the lowest keys of the scale of harmony on which resounds the majestic hymns of the creation of mankind; for they discover to him who questions the Zura (figurative Gematria), the process of man's evolution from the highest spiritual entity unto the lowest physical — the post-diluvian man, as in the Egyptian hieroglyphics, every sign of the picture writing which cannot be made to fit within a certain circumscribed geometrical figure may be rejected as only intended by the sacred hierogrammatist for a premeditated blind — so many of the details in the Bible must be treated on the same principle, that portion only being accepted which answers to the numerical methods taught in the Kabala.
    Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
  • This life, my dear bird, consists of a haphazard sequence of accidental meetings and partings, very few of which can ever be anticipated, avoided or fully understood. The element of sheer Chance, my friend, conflicting as it does with the first principles of Causation, denies any premeditated plan on the part of Destiny. Destiny, therefore, may only be defined as the sum total of one’s accumulated experiences, which are themselves accidental and purposeless. ‘Purpose,’ you deduce from this, is an interpretation imposed upon a sequence of events
    Lin Carter
  • This ... excuse of the provocative slogans leading mechanically to stone-throwing and worse, is used routinely by biased reporters.... A procession with about 100 women members of Durga Vahini had gone out to the Ghanta Ghar area. "There they raised communal slogans, resulting in stone-pelting and bomb-throwing." (Remark the belief in mantra magic: a slogan is uttered, and hocus pocus, a bomb explodes.) This cheap excuse for a pre-planned bomb attack is even contradicted by other information in the same article.... This case proves that newspapers keep on blaming the slogan-shouters even when it is crystal-clear from their own information that the violence was premeditated and engineered by the other side.
    Koenraad Elst
  • Koreans in both the north and the south tend to cherish the myth that of all peoples in the world, they are the least inclined to premeditated evil.
    Brian Reynolds Myers

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