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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
unpremeditated

1590s, from un- (1) "not" + past participle of premeditate (v.).

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unpremeditated

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

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unpremeditated
  1. adj. not prepared or planned in advance; "asked an unpremeditated question"

  2. not premeditated [ant: premeditated]

Usage examples of "unpremeditated".

Because there was no foresight to ensure continuity in the growth of institutions, there were these unpremeditated and often morbid growths, expressive of the accumulating discomfort and discontent and of the need for a more intimate, energetic and fruitful form of human association.

I think we can assume, for a start, that this was an unpremeditated murder.

Only the other day, when a friend asked me how old I was, I responded instantly--our unpremeditated words are usually truest--with the date of my arrival at this farm.

Bird thou never wert, That from Heaven, or near it, Pourest thy full heart In profuse strains of unpremeditated art.

She would have to be forever on guard, he insisted, lest the temptation of some moment, not to be foreseen, prove too strong for her latent weakness of character, and commit her, through some unpremeditated act of defiance to the law--most probably an act of theft--to the life of a social outcast.

But the vengeance on his unpremeditated treachery, for treachery, although unpremeditated, it was none the less, came close upon its heels.

And, because the shooting was unpremeditated, they were all off the hook,, so long as they kept their mouths shut.

A love of ornamentation defied poverty and broke out in an unexpected archway, an unpremeditated fountain in a narrow court, a flight of wrought-iron balconies, capable of lifting the spirits even of the humdrum.

She did her best to convince herself it was because of her unpremeditated decision to accept Awb as an apprentice.

Even now, coming round by the Sol's Arms with the intention of passing down the court, and out at the Chancery Lane end, and so terminating his unpremeditated after-supper stroll of ten minutes long from his own door and back again, Mr.

Hiro Toda, managing director of the most go-ahead shipbuilding complex in Japan, never does anything suddenly or unpremeditated.

The appearance of the triangle of novae in conjunction with the Dog signified clearly that Nushain was to start ere long on an unpremeditated journey which would involve the transit of no less than three elements.

The little symposium was quite unpremeditated, so we must not be too critical respecting a few of the posers that were forthcoming.