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aforethought

/əˈfɔːθɔːt/adjective

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पूर्व-नियोजित, पहले से सोचा हुआ

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adjective
  1. 1

    [after noun] law

    planned or considered in advance, used especially in the phrase 'malice aforethought'

    पूर्व-नियोजित, पहले से सोचा हुआ

    • He was charged with killing the man with malice aforethought.

    Synonyms premeditated planned deliberate intentional

    Opposite unplanned spontaneous impulsive

Idioms 1

malice aforethought

(law) the intention to kill or seriously harm somebody, which makes a killing murder rather than a lesser crime

पूर्व-नियोजित दुर्भावना, (हत्या का) पहले से इरादा

  • The jury found that he had acted with malice aforethought.
≈Synonyms and antonyms
§Grammar and usage

Aforethought comes after the noun it describes, as in malice aforethought, which is unusual for an English adjective.

Aforethought उस noun के बाद आता है जिसका वह वर्णन करता है, जैसे malice aforethought, जो English adjective के लिए असामान्य है।