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thought-out

[ thawt-out ]

/ ˈθɔtˈaʊt /

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adjective

produced by or showing the results of much thought: a carefully thought-out argument.

Origin of thought-out

First recorded in 1865–70

OTHER WORDS FROM thought-out

well-thought-out, adjective

Words nearby thought-out

thought experiment, thought leader, thought police, thought reading, thought transference, thought-out, thoughtful, thoughtless, thoughtway, thousand, thousand and one nights

Example sentences from the Web for well-thought-out

“America is a well-thought-out country,” one political aide told me.

Russia Is Laughing at Us |Julia Ioffe |June 29, 2010 |DAILY BEAST
Second, there was no well-thought-out and practiced evacuation plan for New Orleans.

How Katrina Saved Lives |Michael Chertoff |August 28, 2009 |DAILY BEAST
Things at once fell into harmonious relation with each other, as in a well-thought-out room they should do.

Just Sixteen. |Susan Coolidge
I am delivering a series of well-thought-out discourses to Sir Edward—with what effect, I don't know.

The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page, Volume I |Burton J. Hendrick

Practically the company has had to give up its well-thought-out plan and rent as many of the houses as it could.

The Battle with the Slum |Jacob A. Riis.
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
The very fact of the coincidence of names suggested, to her mind, a well-thought-out plan.

The Lure of Old London |Sophie Cole

British Dictionary definitions for well-thought-out (1 of 2)

well-thought-out

adjective

(well thought out when postpositive) carefully planned

British Dictionary definitions for well-thought-out (2 of 2)

thought-out

adjective

conceived and developed in the manner specified a well thought-out scheme