unpremeditated

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *né

Proto-Indo-European *n̥-

Proto-Germanic *un-

Proto-West Germanic *un-

Old English un-

Middle English un-

English un-

English premeditated

English unpremeditated

From un- + premeditated.

Adjective

unpremeditated (not comparable)

1. Performed, but not planned or thought out in advance; extemporaneous, but not unintentional.

   Synonym: nonpremeditated

   Antonym: premeditated

   • 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 201:

     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.

Derived terms

• unpremeditatedly
• unpremeditatedness

Translations

performed, but not planned or thought out in advance; extemporaneous, but not unintentional

• Bulgarian: непредумишлен (bg) (nepredumišlen)
• Finnish: suunnittelematon (fi), harkitsematon (fi)
• Hawaiian: me ka hoʻolālā ʻole ʻia
• Latin: extemporālis
• Polish: nierozmyślny, nieumyślny (pl)
• Russian: непредумы́шленный (ru) (nepredumýšlennyj), непреднаме́ренный (ru) (neprednamérennyj)
• Spanish: impremeditado