planned
- adjective
- /plænd/
- The event was carefully planned to ensure everything went smoothly.
Speaking of Oprah, this wasn't planned, but milk and cookies.
- Speaking of Oprah, this wasn't planned, but milk and cookies.
- it will never go exactly as planned and people are so stuck
- It was so poorly planned, and that is why it worked.
- That interview had been planned for weeks and weeks and weeks.
- Those were both designed and planned for two years before we shot.
- We should approach things in a careful, well planned out, prudent way.
- It is a wild, beautiful, possibly planned experiment.
- You, your days are always planned by the party.
- Well, if it's raining today really hasn't gone as planned, it's raining again.
- I did have another video planned and it's, it's on hold.
- Did you feel that it wasn't planned as well as it could have been?
- Its first strike would be planned in minute detail.
- They said it was the biggest tax planned cut in history.
- This must have been planned to the tea, which is scary.
Examples
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No, not, I mean, I've got a trip to Korea planned for December.
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We've got a big party planned on Sunday, haven't we?
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That interview had been planned for weeks and weeks and weeks.
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Those were both designed and planned for two years before we shot.
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You, your days are always planned by the party.
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And it's been, it's been planned for years to clean up DC.
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She has a vacation planned for next summer, and she can't wait to go.
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They have a surprise party planned for their friend this weekend.
Synonyms
Done on purpose after careful thought
Done on purpose after planning it
Arranged before something happens
Chosen in advance for a particular use
Planned before it happens
Decided or arranged before something happens
Arranged or agreed before someone carries it out
Decided before it happens
Planned to happen at a set time
Planned and not done by accident
Planned in advance, often to do something illegal
Planned carefully to get a particular result
Made for a certain purpose
Placed in a planned order
Made before use by following a set recipe, like a cream or liquid
Made ahead so it can meet future needs
Acting before a problem or event happens to avoid it
Antonyms
Compounds
An area planned and built with homes, shops, and parks for people to live in
How Planned
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Planned comes from plan, which is like a simple drawing or map that shows what to do. So to have something planned is to have it 'arranged in advance', like following a map before you go.