premeditated
adj1
Planned, considered, or estimated in advance; deliberate.
- premeditated assault
- a premeditated act of aggression
4 more examples
- a premeditated breach of contract
- in the face of premeditated criminal acts
- caused by grossly negligent or premeditated infringement of duty
- There is no proof of premeditated or grossly negligent wrongdoing.
- Synonyms
- advised, aforethought, forebegotten, foreconceived, preconceived, predesigned, premeditated, prepense, preplanned
- Antonyms
- improvised, spontaneous, unpremeditated
- Derived terms
- premeditatedly, premeditatedness
- Related terms
- premeditating, premeditation
- Hypernyms
- intentional, planned