judged

ADJECTIVE

deliberate

Synonyms

STRONGEST

calculated careful cautious cold-blooded conscious meticulous premeditated prudent purposeful studious thoughtful willful

STRONG

advised considered designed express fixed intended planned pondered prearranged predetermined projected purposed reasoned resolved schemed studied weighed

WEAK

aforethought cut-and-dried designful done on purpose predesigned predeterminate prepense provident purposive scrupulous thought-out voluntary wary with forethought witting

Antonyms

STRONGEST

careless heedless ignorant imprudent inattentive incautious thoughtless uncareful unmindful

STRONG

indefinite unplanned

WEAK

chance indeterminate unintentional unmethodical unsystematic unwitting

ADJECTIVE

guilty

Synonyms

STRONGEST

convicted culpable liable remorseful responsible sorry wrong

WEAK

accusable caught censurable censured chargeable condemned conscience-stricken contrite convictable criminal damned delinquent depraved doomed erring evil felonious hangdog impeached in error in the wrong incriminated iniquitous licentious offending on one's head out of line proscribed regretful reprehensible rueful sentenced sheepish sinful wicked

Antonyms

STRONGEST

good immune irresponsible right

WEAK

guiltless innocent moral sinless truthful

ADJECTIVE

lawful

Synonyms

STRONGEST

authorized constitutional justifiable legal permissible proper rightful statutory valid

WEAK

bona fide canonical card-carrying commanded condign decreed due enacted enforced enjoined established innocent judicial jural juridical jurisprudent just kosher legalized legislated legit legitimatized licit mandated of right official on the level on the up and up ordained ordered passed protected ruled vested warrantable warranted

Antonyms

STRONGEST

illegal illegitimate incorrect unacceptable wrong

WEAK

illicit prohibited taboo unlawful

ADJECTIVE

legal

Synonyms

STRONGEST

constitutional contractual fair juridical lawful legitimate proper statutory valid

WEAK

acknowledged allowed authorized card-carrying chartered clean condign decreed due enforceable enforced enjoined forensic granted innocent judicial just justifiable justified legalized legit licit on the level on the up and up ordained passed precedented prescribed protected right rightful sanctioned sound straight sure-enough warranted within the law

Antonyms

STRONGEST

illegal illegitimate invalid unacceptable unlawful

WEAK

illicit wrong

ADJECTIVE

legit

Synonyms

WEAK

authorized bona fide canonical card-carrying commanded condign constitutional decreed due enacted enforced enjoined established innocent judicial jural juridical jurisprudent just justifiable kosher legal legalized legislated legitimate legitimatized licit mandated of right official on the level on the up and up ordained ordered passed permissible proper protected rightful ruled statutory valid vested warrantable warranted

ADJECTIVE

reviewed

Synonyms

STRONG

abstracted analyzed considered criticized critiqued examined investigated outlined reconsidered studied summarized surveyed

Antonyms

STRONG

unplanned

Example Sentences

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Judged on two recent previous cases, if found guilty Aki could well face at least a three-match ban.

From Barron's • Jan. 28, 2026

Judged against other attempts at keeping a franchise alive, “Transformers One” arrives as one of the year’s most positive surprises.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 20, 2024

Judged by the torrent of labor market soundings we've seen already this week, a negative surprise from the national employment picture later on Friday seems unlikely.

From Reuters • Sep. 1, 2023

Judged by any metric, a 100 percent ROI is spectacular: The average ROI in the technology sector was about 16 percent averaged across the four quarters in 2022.

From Washington Post • Mar. 29, 2023

Judged by appearance, which, with andys, was the only useful standard.

From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick

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