Meanings
- not comparablePerformed, but not planned or thought out in advance; extemporaneous, but not unintentional.
Hail to thee, blithe spirit! / Bird thou never wert, / That from heaven, or near it, / Pourest thy full heart / In profuse strains of unpremeditated art.
1820 June (date written), Percy Bysshe Shelley, “To a Skylark”, in Prometheus Unbound […], London: C[harles] and J[ames] Ollier […], published 1820, →OCLC, stanza 1, page 201Synonyms: nonpremeditated · Antonyms: premeditated
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectivePerformed, but not planned or thought out in advance; extemporaneous, but not unintentional.
More synonyms by meaning
adjectivenot prepared or planned in advance
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Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*né
- Proto-Indo-European*n̥-
- Proto-Germanic*un-
- Proto-West Germanic*un-
- Old Englishun-
- Middle Englishun-
- Englishun-
- Englishpremeditated
- Englishunpremeditated
From un- + premeditated.
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Bulgarian непредумишлен
- непредумишлен (nepredumišlen)performed, but not planned or thought out in advance; extemporaneous, but not unintentional
Finnish suunnittelematon, harkitsematon
- suunnittelematonperformed, but not planned or thought out in advance; extemporaneous, but not unintentional
- harkitsematonperformed, but not planned or thought out in advance; extemporaneous, but not unintentional
Hawaiian me ka hoʻolālā ʻole ʻia
- me ka hoʻolālā ʻole ʻiaperformed, but not planned or thought out in advance; extemporaneous, but not unintentional
Latin extemporālis
- extemporālisperformed, but not planned or thought out in advance; extemporaneous, but not unintentional
Polish nierozmyślny, nieumyślny
- nierozmyślnyperformed, but not planned or thought out in advance; extemporaneous, but not unintentional
- nieumyślnyperformed, but not planned or thought out in advance; extemporaneous, but not unintentional
Russian непредумы́шленный, непреднаме́ренный
- непредумы́шленный (nepredumýšlennyj)performed, but not planned or thought out in advance; extemporaneous, but not unintentional
- непреднаме́ренный (neprednamérennyj)performed, but not planned or thought out in advance; extemporaneous, but not unintentional
Spanish impremeditado
- impremeditadoperformed, but not planned or thought out in advance; extemporaneous, but not unintentional
Cite this entry
unpremeditated. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unpremeditated
“unpremeditated.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unpremeditated. Accessed November 4, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “unpremeditated,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unpremeditated.
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