Antonyms for premeditation
prɪˌmɛd ɪˈteɪ ʃənpre·med·i·ta·tion

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1. premeditation

   Antonyms:
   without forethought, without deliberation

   Synonyms:
   forethought, deliberation

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1. • Law
   • Mens Rea

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. premeditation, forethoughtnoun

   planning or plotting in advance of acting

   Synonyms:
   care, forethought, precaution, caution

2. premeditationnoun

   (law) thought and intention to commit a crime well in advance of the crime; goes to show criminal intent

   Synonyms:
   forethought

How to use premeditation in a sentence?

1. The RHONYstar:

   I think he was just being stupid, and people make mistakes. i think the key is to know and believe that someone is truly remorseful and somebody truly made a mistake, that there was no premeditation.

2. Mark Eiglarsh:

   It almost always gets you first-degree murder because premeditation can be formed in an instant, you put your hands around the neck, that’s an unwanted touching, that’s simple battery or assault. Then you start to squeeze, your argument could be, ‘Well, I just wanted to scare them.' But then you contuse to affix pressure… There’s a certain amount of minimal time that someone needs to do that before somebody is dead.

3. Herman Melville:

   Let us speak, though we show all our faults and weaknesses, --for it is a sign of strength to be weak, to know it, and out with it -- not in a set way and ostentatiously, though, but incidentally and without premeditation.

4. Bastiaan Slabbers/NurPhoto:

   I've been listening to it for over 40 years. I was 24 years old when my husband was murdered, shot in the head, point-blank, by Mumia Abu-Jamal, he did it with malice and did it with premeditation, and there's no doubt in my mind. I went to every single court hearing, and if anyone wanted to know who murdered my husband, it was me. I wanted to know who murdered Danny, and it was Mumia. He did it with such malice. I mean, he executed him.

5. The RHONYstar:

   I think the key is to know and believe that someone is truly remorseful and somebody truly made a mistake, that there was no premeditation.

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