premeditating
Thinking through ahead
Premeditating is planning or considering something beforehand, especially a crime or harmful act.
The word carries legal weight: premeditated murder implies deliberate intent rather than spontaneous action.
Someone premeditating has thought through what they're about to do: He was premeditating the robbery for weeks.
Devising a secret plan
- conspiringPlotting secretly with others
- connivingSecretly planning wrongdoing
- machinatingPlotting with harmful intent
- contrivingInventing through ingenuity
devising · hatching · engineering · masterminding · crafting · orchestrating · colluding · intriguing
Prior deliberate intention
- intentPlanned purpose
- mens reaBlameworthy mental state
- culpabilityDeserving blame for wrongdoing
- criminal intentGuilty state of mind
first-degree · deliberation · planning · cold-blooded · calculated · willful · malice · prosecution
Sustained reflective attention
- forethoughtPlanning before acting
- calculationMathematical problem-solving process
- planningArranging for future events
- considerationCareful thought or compensation
reflection · rumination · cogitation · weighing · pondering · thinking ahead · anticipation · foresight
plotting
Devising a secret plan
- conspiringPlotting secretly with others
- connivingSecretly planning wrongdoing
- machinatingPlotting with harmful intent
contriving · devising · hatching · engineering · masterminding · crafting · orchestrating · colluding · intriguing · maneuvering
aforethought
Prior deliberate intention
- intentPlanned purpose
- mens reaBlameworthy mental state
- culpabilityDeserving blame for wrongdoing
criminal intent · first-degree · deliberation · planning · cold-blooded · calculated · willful · malice · prosecution · sentencing
contemplation
Sustained reflective attention
- forethoughtPlanning before acting
- calculationMathematical problem-solving process
- planningArranging for future events
consideration · reflection · rumination · cogitation · weighing · pondering · thinking ahead · anticipation · foresight · intent
premeditatingimprovising
Creating spontaneously without plan
reacting · winging it · unplanned · extemporizing · ad-libbing