planful
Americanadjective
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proceeding by making and following a plan; organized and deliberate or intentional.
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tending to act in a strategic, calculating, methodical, or crafty way.
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“If you’re a very thoughtful, planful person in life, you’ll approach death the same way.”
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 20, 2026
"Being psychotic, it does not mean you are not intelligent, nor that you cannot act in a planful way," she says.
From BBC ● Jan. 13, 2021
The disposition to be planful and strategic: The drive to set goals, to make and execute plans, to envision outcomes; alertness to lack of direction; the ability to formulate goals and plans.
From Time ● Sep. 24, 2015
Given simple ``Construction Tests'' which required the planful handling of concrete material, Adolf proceeded unintelligently.
From Pathology of Lying, accusation, and swindling: a study in forensic psychology by William Healy
Here the dreamer—and a dreamer he always was until he got out of his cocoon—was sincere, hopeful, planful, as playful as his sombre mind would permit, but always magnificently, even startlingly, unreserved.
From Concerning Lafcadio Hearn With a Bibliography by Laura Stedman by George M. (George Milbrey) Gould
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