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Definition/Meaning

(adjective)

planned and arranged ahead of time;

e.g. It was a calculated effort on their part.

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Similar Words

Advised

Aforethought

Considered

Cutesy

Deliberate

Foreseeable

Framed

Intended

Made

Measured

Organized

Premeditated

Premeditative

Prepared

Prepense

Purported

Put

Self-disciplined

Studied

Supposed

Thoughtful

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Opposite Words

Abrupt

Accidental

Accidentally

Aimless

Automatic

Casual

Chance

Cursory

Desultory

Drive-by

Extemporaneous

Flying

Gadarene

Half-cocked

Haphazard

Hasty

Headlong

Helter-skelter

Hit-or-miss

Horseback

Hurried

Ill-advised

Impetuous

Impromptu

Inadvertent

Incidental

Instinctive

Involuntary

Knee

Knee-jerk

Measured

Mechanic

Mechanical

Nondeliberate

Nonpurposive

Pell-mell

Pellmell

Precipitate

Precipitous

Purposeless

Random

Rash

Reactive

Spontaneous

Sudden

Unadvised

Uncalculated

Unforeseeable

Unintended

Unwitting

Visceral

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Related Words

Accomplished

Achieved

Added

Advanced

Affected

Aforethought

Artificial

Assumed

Attempted

Bogus

Committed

Concerted

Conscious

Considered

Contrived

Deliberate

Detailed

Divided

Educated

Factitious

Fake

False

Feigned

Forced

Forethoughtful

Informed

Intended

Intentional

Intrigued

Learned

Measured

Mechanical

Meticulous

Mock

Moderate

Onto

Phony

Plastic

Premeditated

Prepense

Provident

Prudent

Pseudo

Purposeful

Purposive

Put-on

Saw

Sham

Simulated

Spurious

Strained

Temperate

Tried

Unnatural

Voluntary

Willed

Willful

Witting

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