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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

CALCULATED, pp. Computed; reckoned; suited; adapted by design.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: carefully thought out in advance; "a calculated insult"; "with measured irony" [syn: deliberate, calculated, measured]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Date: 1722 1. apt, likely 2. a. worked out by mathematical calculation b. engaged in, undertaken, or displayed after reckoning or estimating the statistical probability of success or failure <a calculated risk> 3. a. planned or contrived to accomplish a purpose b. deliberate, intended <a calculated attempt to deceive voters> • calculatedly adverb • calculatedness noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. 1 (of an action) done with awareness of the likely consequences. 2 (foll. by to + infin.) designed or suitable; intended. Derivatives: calculatedly adv.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Calculated Cal"cu*la`ted, p. p. & a. 1. 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. 2. Adapted by calculation, contrivance. or forethought to accomplish a purpose; as, to use arts calculated to deceive the people. 3. Likely to produce a certain effect, whether intended or not; fitted; adapted; suited. The only danger that attends multiplicity of publication is, that some of them may be calculated to injure rather than benefit society. --Goldsmith. The minister, on the other hand, had never gone through an experience calculated to lead him beyond the scope of generally received laws. --Hawthorne.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

1. If something is calculated to have a particular effect, it is specially done or arranged in order to have that effect. Their movements through the region were calculated to terrify landowners into abandoning their holdings... ADJ: v-link ADJ to-inf 2. If you say that something is not calculated to have a particular effect, you mean that it is unlikely to have that effect. Such a statement was hardly calculated to deter future immigrants. = likely ADJ: with brd-neg, v-link ADJ to-inf 3. You can describe a clever or dishonest action as calculated when it is very carefully planned or arranged. Irene's cleaning the floor had been a calculated attempt to cover up her crime. ADJ: usu ADJ n 4. If you take a calculated risk, you do something which you think might be successful, although you have fully considered the possible bad consequences of your action. ADJ: ADJ n

Moby Thesaurus

adapted, adjusted, advised, aimed, aimed at, arranged, blueprinted, charted, conscious, considered, contemplated, contrived, deliberate, deliberated, designed, devised, envisaged, envisioned, figured, fit, fitted, in the works, intended, intentional, knowing, meant, meditated, methodized, of design, on the agenda, on the anvil, on the calendar, on the carpet, on the docket, on the tapis, organized, planned, plotted, premeditated, prepared, projected, proposed, purposed, purposeful, purposive, rationalized, reasoned, scheduled, schematized, set, shaped, strategetic, strategic, studied, suited, sur le tapis, systematized, tactical, teleological, thought-out, voluntary, weighed, willful, witting, worked out