Aforethought

Definition: Aforethought

Aforethought

Adjective

1. Planned in advance; "with malice aforethought".

Date "aforethought" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references)

Synonyms: Aforethought

Synonyms: aforethought(ip) (adj), planned (adj), plotted (adj). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Predetermination	Adjective: prepense, premeditated; Verb:, predesignated, predesigned; advised, studied, designed, calculated; aforethought; intended; foregone.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Aforethought

English words defined with "aforethought": malice aforethought ♦ Prepense. (references)

Domain	Usage
Movie/TV Titles	Malice Aforethought (1980)
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Domain	Title
Books	Malice Aforethought [LARGE PRINT] (reference) (more book examples)
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"Aforethought" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Aforethought" is used about 10 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	100%	10	111,207

Expressions using "aforethought": malice aforethought ♦ of malice aforethought ♦ with a malice aforethought ♦ with malice aforethought. Additional references.
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The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "aforethought"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		i paramenduar (deliberate, intentional, preconceived, premeditated, prepense). (various references)

Arabic		‏مدبر (concerted, instigator, planned), ‏مبيت, ‏تعمد (calculate, forethought, premeditation, wilfulness, willfulness). (various references)

Bulgarian		предумишлен (deliberate, premeditated, prepense), преднамерен (conscious, deliberate, intentional, loaded, premeditated, prepense, purposive, studied, studious, voluntary, wilful, willful). (various references)

French		prémédité. (various references)

German		vorbedacht (consideration, forethought, intent, premeditation). (various references)

Greek		προσκεμμένοσ. (various references)

Hebrew		שבמחשב�" תחיל�". (various references)

Hungarian		előre megfontolt (deliberate, premeditated). (various references)

Italian		predeterminato, deliberato (decised, deliberate, determined, knowingly). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		予謀 (premeditation). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		よぼう (confidence, esteem, honor, popularity, precaution, premeditation, prevention, protection against, reputation). (various references)

Manx		rolaue (beforehand, prior), roie-smooinit, roie-chiarit. (various references)

Pig Latin		aforethoughtay

Portuguese		premeditado (calculated, premeditation, prepense, purposeful, wilful, willful). (various references)

Romanian		premeditat (advised, deliberate, malicious, premeditated, premeditative, studied, wilful). (various references)

Russian		преднамеренный (intentional, premeditate, premeditated, prepense, purposive, studied). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		s'predumišljajem, predumišljaj (premeditation). (various references)

Spanish		premeditación (deliberation, forethought, premeditation). (various references)

Swedish		uppsåtlig (intentional, malicious, premeditated, prepense, wilful), överlagd (premeditated, prepense). (various references)

Turkish		planlanmış (deliberate, designed, planned), kasıtlı (deliberate, designed, designedly, felonious, intended, intentional, meaning, prepense, purposely, studied, voluntary, wilful, willful), düşünülmüş (considered). (various references)

Ukranian		умисний (calculated, deliberate, ostentatious, premeditated, purposive), навмисність (forethought, premeditation, purposefulness), навмисний (advised, calculated, deliberate, designed, felonious, forethought, industrious, intended, intentional, malicious, prepense, purposeful, voluntary, wilful, willful). (various references)

Vietnamese		có suy tính trước (premeditated, prepense), có định trước, cố ý (consciously, deliberate, knowingly, prepense, set, studied, studious). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "aforethought" (pronounced ufô"rthÄ't)
3	-th Ä' t	afterthought.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-e-f-g-h-h-o-o-r-t-t-u"
	-1 letter: forethought.
	-3 letters: haftoroth, rethought.
	-4 letters: footgear, frottage, haftorot, refought, retaught, thorough, tutorage.
	-5 letters: agoroth, fagoter, footage, foregut, fraught, garotte, outhear, outrage, outrate, rootage, tartufe, thought, through, tougher.
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