premeditatedadjective
uk/ˌpriːˈmed.ɪ.teɪ.tɪd/us/ˌpriːˈmed.ə.teɪ.t̬ɪd/(especially of a crime or something unpleasant) done after being thought about or carefully planned:
premeditated murder
a premeditated attack
The assault was premeditated and particularly brutal.
Opposite
unpremeditated
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Planning, expecting and arranging
- accidentally
- accidentally on purpose idiom
- advertent
- advisedly
- aim
- aim at sth
- calculate
- chart
- engineer
- I might have known idiom
- in the pipeline idiom
- intend
- intent
- intention
- promise
- scheme
- scientific
- see sth coming idiom
- set sth up
- strategic
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premeditation
noun [ U ] uk/ˌpriː.med.ɪˈteɪ.ʃən/us/ˌpriː.med.əˈteɪ.ʃən/