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# premeditated

adjective

«premeditated» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

Planned or thought about carefully beforehand, especially a crime or a bad act. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/premeditated/#m1)

### In the lessons

Used in law and crime stories: a premeditated crime is planned, not done in a sudden moment, and courts usually treat it as more serious. In ethics lessons it helps compare doing harm on purpose and by accident.

### Examples

- The judge said the attack was premeditated. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/premeditated/#x1)
- It wasn't an accident; it was premeditated. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/premeditated/#x2)
- The burglary was premeditated; they had studied the house for weeks. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/premeditated/#x3)
- A premeditated lie is worse than a mistake. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/premeditated/#x4)
- In the detective story, the murder was carefully premeditated. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/premeditated/#x5)
- The prank was premeditated, not spur-of-the-moment. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/premeditated/#x6)

### Note

Adjective (from the verb premeditate). Opposite: spontaneous, unplanned, spur-of-the-moment. «Pre-» = before, «meditate» = think.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «premeditated» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/premeditated/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«premeditated» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/premeditated.html) on Mova free.