Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Not planned or thought out in advance.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not previously meditated or thought over.
- Not previously purposed or intended; not done by design: as, an unpremeditated offense.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Performed, but not
planned or thought out inadvance ;extemporaneous , but notunintentional .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective not premeditated
- adjective not prepared or planned in advance
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Examples
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That colloquial use of the word “intuition” refers to an unpremeditated insight that just happens to turn out to be true.
The Angels and Us Mortimer J. Adler 1982
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"Like most inexperienced people," ran his notes, "I was astonished at the reported feats of men in war; I believed they were exaggerated, and that there was a kind of unpremeditated conspiracy of silence about their real behaviour.
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It was wholly unpremeditated; he had not dreamed of doing it.
CHAPTER 11 2010
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Her first surprise and bewilderment at so wholly unpremeditated an act gave way to consternation as she considered its consequences.
Chapter XIV 2010
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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.
Chapter 1 2010
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This use of our given names had come about quite as a matter of course, and was as unpremeditated as it was natural.
Chapter 31 2010
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All unpremeditated, she responded to that quick pressure.
CHAPTER XXIII 2010
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With a tired sigh, and with an impulsive movement all her own, unpremeditated, spasmodic, she rested her head upon his breast.
Chapter 21 2010
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They think the attack last week was unpremeditated.
Hideously diverse Britain: the aftermath of a ferocious attack inside a mosque 2011
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It was a part of him, the breath of his soul as it were, involuntary and unpremeditated.
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