4 definitions found

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

aforethought

adjective: planned in advance; "with malice aforethought" [syn: {aforethought(ip)}, {planned}, {plotted}]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:

Aforethought \A*fore"thought'\, adjective Premeditated; prepense; previously in mind; designed; as, malice aforethought, which is required to constitute murder. --Bouvier.

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:

Aforethought \A*fore"thought'\, noun Premeditation.

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

25 Moby Thesaurus words for "aforethought": advised, calculatedness, calculation, considered, deliberateness, deliberation, designed, express intention, expressness, forethought, intentionality, preconsideration, preconsidered, predeliberated, predeliberation, predetermination, predetermined, premeditated, premeditation, prepense, preresolution, preresolved, studied, studious, thought-out

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