PREMEDITATED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does premeditated mean? 

• PREMEDITATED (adjective)
  The adjective PREMEDITATED has 1 sense:

1. characterized by deliberate purpose and some degree of planning

  Familiarity information: PREMEDITATED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PREMEDITATED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Characterized by deliberate purpose and some degree of planning

Context example:

a premeditated crime

Similar:

aforethought; planned; plotted (with planning and intention)

Also:

intended (resulting from one's intentions)

planned (designed or carried out according to a plan)

Antonym:

unpremeditated (not premeditated)

 Context examples 

And yet this woman—who knows what her art may have been? —how long it may have been premeditated, and how deeply contrived by her!

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

You wanted me, I know, to say 'Yes,' that you might have the pleasure of despising my taste; but I always delight in overthrowing those kind of schemes, and cheating a person of their premeditated contempt. I have, therefore, made up my mind to tell you, that I do not want to dance a reel at all—and now despise me if you dare.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)