premeditated
Thought out beforehand
Premeditated describes actions planned or considered in advance rather than done impulsively.
The word appears most often in legal contexts: premeditated murder involves deliberate intent, distinguishing it from crimes of passion or accident.
Outside law, it emphasizes deliberateness: a premeditated insult, premeditated cruelty.
The planning implied is usually for something harmful or wrong.
Consciously chosen, not accidental
- plannedDecided on beforehand
- calculatedFigured out mathematically
- intentionalDone on purpose
- purposefulDone with intention
willful · conscious · knowing · witting · intended · designed · studied · volitional
Deliberate unlawful killing
- homicideCausing another's death
- felonySerious criminal offense
- maliceIntent to cause harm
- aforethoughtPrior deliberate intention
first-degree · prosecution · intent · culpability · mens rea · aggravated · sentencing · verdict
Storyline or land parcel
- conspirePlot secretly with others
- orchestrateArrange complex undertakings
- mastermindScheme's chief planner
- contriveCreate through artifice
engineer · scheme · maneuver · collude · machination · connive · preplan · devise
Lacking any compassion
- callousCruelly insensitive to others
- mercilessShowing no clemency
- calculatingColdly self-serving in strategy
- remorselessLacking guilt or pity
pitiless · heartless · unfeeling · cold · methodical · dispassionate · emotionless · detached
deliberate
Consciously chosen, not accidental
- plannedDecided on beforehand
- calculatedFigured out mathematically
- intentionalDone on purpose
purposeful · willful · conscious · knowing · witting · intended · designed · studied · volitional · predetermined
murder
Deliberate unlawful killing
aforethought · first-degree · prosecution · intent · culpability · mens rea · aggravated · sentencing · verdict · conviction
plot
Storyline or land parcel
- conspirePlot secretly with others
- orchestrateArrange complex undertakings
- mastermindScheme's chief planner
contrive · engineer · scheme · maneuver · collude · machination · connive · preplan · devise · hatch
ruthless
Lacking any compassion
- callousCruelly insensitive to others
- mercilessShowing no clemency
- calculatingColdly self-serving in strategy
remorseless · pitiless · heartless · unfeeling · cold · methodical · dispassionate · emotionless · detached · clinical
- beforehandbeforehand, before, ahead, early, in advance
- murderhomicide, manslaughter, assassination, serial killing, mass murder
- Murder Trialprosecutor, defense attorney, guilty, innocent, jury
- planningplan, planned, planners, to-do lists, calendars
- not realfake, phony, sham, pretend, fabricated
- criminal lawcrime, felony, misdemeanor, murder, robbery
premeditatedspontaneous
Arising without external cause
unpremeditated · unplanned · impulsive · spur-of-the-moment · impromptu
premeditatedaccidental
Occurring by chance
unintentional · inadvertent · unwitting · involuntary · unintended
- premeditated murderDeliberate, planned killing
premeditation, premeditate, premeditating, premeditatedly, premeditates, premeditations