thought-out
[thawt-out]
- produced by or showing the results of much thought: a carefully thought-out argument.
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Origin of thought-out
First recorded in 1865–70
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Contemporary Examples
“America is a well-thought-out country,” one political aide told me.
Second, there was no well-thought-out and practiced evacuation plan for New Orleans.
Historical Examples
It meant that a well-thought-out plan was to be accomplished.
Roger the BoldF. S. Brereton
Hitherto the Union forces had acted on no well-thought-out plan.
A Short History of the United StatesEdward Channing
Things at once fell into harmonious relation with each other, as in a well-thought-out room they should do.
Just Sixteen.Susan Coolidge
This shearing follows a fashion, now happily going out, as it cannot come from any well-thought-out design.
The Peaches of New YorkU. P. Hedrick
We must not think of this advance into Alsace as part of a well-thought-out plan by the French commander-in-chief.
The Childrens' Story of the War, Volume 1 (of 10)James Edward Parrott
well-thought-out
- (well thought out when postpositive) carefully planned
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thought-out
- conceived and developed in the manner specifieda well thought-out scheme
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