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scheduled

scheduled is the simple past and past participle of schedule.

Adjective

scheduled (not comparable)

  1. Planned; according to schedule (timetable).
    • scheduled surgery
  2. Listed in a schedule (a table or registry).
    • Near-synonyms: listed, registered
    • scheduled pipe sizes
    Synonyms:
    listed, registered
  3. (India) Included in a Schedule of the Indian Constitution, and as such is recognised by the government as eligible for special protection and consideration; afforded special concessions
    • Near-synonym: recognized
    • scheduled caste; scheduled tribe; scheduled language
    Synonyms:
    recognized

Meaning of schedule

Verb

schedule (third-person singular simple present schedules, present participle scheduling, simple past and past participle scheduled)

  1. To create a time-schedule.
  2. (transitive) To plan (an activity or event) for a specific date or time.
    • The next elections are scheduled on the twentieth of November.
    Synonyms:
    make, time
  3. (transitive) To add (a name) to the list of those participating in an event; to reserve a place or time for.
    • I am scheduled for classes next month.
  4. (Australia, transitive) To admit (a person) to hospital as an involuntary patient under a schedule of the applicable mental health law.
    • whether or not to schedule a patient
    Synonyms:
    section, commit
  5. (US, transitive) To classify as a controlled substance.
    • Many harm reduction groups and drug policy experts question the long-term efficacy of scheduling xylazine.2023 April 20, Jan Hoffman, “The Fight Over a Drug That Is Great for Horses but Horrific for Humans”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

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Noun

scheduled (plural scheduleds)

  1. (informal, not comparable) Synonym of schedulee.
    • However, one cannot help finding some similarity between these sharp words and those which became familiar when - well before the oil crisis - the fight between the scheduleds and non-scheduleds was in full swing.1975, ITA Bulletin - Issues 1-26, page 137
    • If you have a curfew for the scheduleds, I think you should have them for the nonscheduleds, and of course in general aviation you have a wide range of corporate jet aircraft, and some of these corporate jet aircraft actually make more noise than the usual light-body airline jets, so I think it...1980, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Works and Transportation. Subcommittee on Aviation, DOT/FAA Proposed New Policy for Airports in the Metropolitan Washington Area
    Synonyms:
    schedulee

Synonyms of scheduled

Forms of scheduled

pluralscheduleds

Words formed from scheduled

Phrases with scheduled

Questions about scheduled

What does scheduled mean?
Scheduled means planned; according to schedule (timetable).
What is scheduled the simple past and past participle of?
Scheduled is the simple past and past participle of schedule.
What part of speech is scheduled?
Scheduled can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near scheduled in the dictionary

  1. schedulabilities
  2. schedulability
  3. schedulable
  4. schedular
  5. schedule
  6. scheduled
  7. scheduled territories
  8. scheduled territory
  9. scheduleds
  10. schedulee
  11. schedulees

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Adapted from Wiktionary: scheduled (page history and authors); schedule (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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