forearmed
adjective, verb
forearmed is an adjective meaning “Armed in advance, in preparation for anticipated defensive moves (such as fighting, lawyering, or counterarguing)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-O-R-E-A-R-M-E-D, and it appears about once in every 19 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does forearmed mean?
adjective
- 1
Armed in advance, in preparation for anticipated defensive moves (such as fighting, lawyering, or counterarguing).
- 2
Having some specific type of forearm.
Popeye is a large-forearmed cartoon character.
verb
- 1
simple past and past participle of forearm
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is forearmed?
Forearmed appears about once in every 19 million words in written English, the 131,834th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).