UNPREMEDITATED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does unpremeditated mean? 

• UNPREMEDITATED (adjective)
  The adjective UNPREMEDITATED has 2 senses:

1. not prepared or planned in advance

2. not premeditated

  Familiarity information: UNPREMEDITATED used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNPREMEDITATED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Not prepared or planned in advance

Context example:

asked an unpremeditated question

Similar:

unplanned (without apparent forethought or prompting or planning)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Not premeditated

Similar:

impulsive (without forethought)

Also:

unplanned (without apparent forethought or prompting or planning)

Antonym:

premeditated (characterized by deliberate purpose and some degree of planning)

 Context examples 

With a tired sigh, and with an impulsive movement all her own, unpremeditated, spasmodic, she rested her head upon his breast.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

The girls were wild for dancing; and the evenings ended, occasionally, in an unpremeditated little ball.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

This use of our given names had come about quite as a matter of course, and was as unpremeditated as it was natural.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

In the country, an unpremeditated dance was very allowable; but in London, where the reputation of elegance was more important and less easily attained, it was risking too much for the gratification of a few girls, to have it known that Lady Middleton had given a small dance of eight or nine couple, with two violins, and a mere side-board collation.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

It was a careless, unpremeditated glance, one of those haphazard things men do when they have no immediate call to do anything in particular, but act because they are alive and must do something.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)