PREPENSE Synonyms: 52 Similar and Opposite Words

prepense

adjective

Definition of prepense

as in premeditated

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Adjective

In 1842, the appellate court reduced the offense from a premeditated breach of duty to a negligent one, acquitted Ebel of founding a sect, and quashed his confinement.

— Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 17 Aug. 2026
Reddington asked the judge to find Clancy not guilty or reduce the charges from premeditated first-degree murder to second-degree murder.

— Aaron Parseghian, CBS News, 17 Aug. 2026

Definition of premeditated

Adjective

What The Band Has Done Well The pacing was patient, and that patience appears deliberate.

— Olivia Shalhoup, Forbes.com, 30 Aug. 2026
The encounter affirmed that things were falling into place, Lee said, adding that moments like that must be accompanied by deliberate and strategic work.

— April Quevedo, jsonline.com, 29 Aug. 2026

Definition of deliberate

Adjective

And the forces driving the bond market are considerably more calculated than his post suggested.

— Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 3 Sep. 2026
Interestingly, none of our 25 calculated ‘breaches’ outside of the pandemic years saw a club exceed the 115 per cent threshold, which would now incur a sporting sanction.

— Chris Weatherspoon, New York Times, 21 Aug. 2026

Definition of calculated

Adjective

Meaningful persuasion requires the suspension of some short-term interests for the sake of long-term interests, which is why coercive economic statecraft among allies is ill advised.

— MICHAEL KIMMAGE, Foreign Affairs, 8 Dec. 2025
The wind screens deflect a fair amount of wind (and rain), but Super 3 drivers are well advised to wear some form of eye protection.

— Mike Duff, Car and Driver, 15 June 2022

Definition of advised

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Medical prior authorization, one of the most studied examples, is still processed electronically only about 40% of the time, despite two decades of automation investment aimed squarely at fixing it.

— Abhinav Shashank, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2026
Who better to help launch that activation than Robbie, one of the most studied red carpet figures in the world?

— Matt Donnelly, Variety, 12 Aug. 2026

Definition of studied

Adjective

Had Styles — either completely by accident or with malice aforethought — unleashed a mouthful of spit upon his elder co-star?

— Vulture, Vulture, 7 Sep. 2022
Depraved-indifference murder is not supposed to be a sleight-of-hand that elevates manslaughter to murder, or that effectively turns an unintentional killing into an intentional murder by substituting depraved indifference for malice aforethought.

— Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 7 Mar. 2021

Definition of aforethought

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