calculated

Speech parts

1. calculated - Adjective

2. calculated - Verb

4. calculated - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Worked out by calculation; as calculated tables for computing interest; ascertained or conjectured as a result of calculation; as, the calculated place of a planet; the calculated velocity of a cannon ball.

Adapted by calculation, contrivance. or forethought to accomplish a purpose; as, to use arts calculated to deceive the people.

Likely to produce a certain effect, whether intended or not; fitted; adapted; suited.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

measured deliberate designed planned strategic tactical intentional figured purposeful computed quantified premeditated estimated assessed reckoned
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Antonyms

chance automatic confused sudden spontaneous accidental
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Phrases with the word

calculated to produce calculated action calculated numbers able to be calculated calculated deception calculated steps

Examples

Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act. André Malraux

If the ignorance of nature gave birth to gods, the knowledge of nature is calculated to destroy them. Baron d'Holbach

Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash. George S. Patton

We must have courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act. Everyday living requires courage if life is to be effective and bring happiness. Maxwell Maltz

Every society, all government, and every kind of civil compact therefore, is or ought to be, calculated for the general good and safety of the community. George Mason

Nothing is so well calculated to produce a death-like torpor in the country as an extended system of taxation and a great national debt. William Cobbett

Close letter words and terms

calculate out calculate roughly calculate wrongly calculated action calculated deception calculated for effect