Antonyms for designing


Grammar : Adj
Spell : dih-zahy-ning
Phonetic Transcription : dɪˈzaɪ nɪŋ


Definition of designing

Origin :
  • "scheming," 1670s, present participle adjective from design (v.).
  • adj plotting, crafty
Example sentences :
  • It has cost over $200,000, and it was in course of designing and construction two years.
  • Extract from : « Flying Machines » by W.J. Jackman and Thos. H. Russell
  • Why did Mrs. Hallam suspect him of designing to meet Calendar at Queensborough?
  • Extract from : « The Black Bag » by Louis Joseph Vance
  • And always thrown at his head by designing parents for his money.
  • Extract from : « Astounding Stories of Super-Science, November, 1930 » by Various
  • This tendency is counteracted by designing the cross section with superelevation.
  • Extract from : « American Rural Highways » by T. R. Agg
  • So I invited him to sup with me, just as if he were a fair youth, and I a designing lover.
  • Extract from : « Symposium » by Plato
  • I have,” said Euthydemus, “and continue to do so every day, designing to have as many as I can get.
  • Extract from : « The Memorable Thoughts of Socrates » by Xenophon
  • Our manufacturers do not consider health in designing the shape of chairs.
  • Extract from : « Our Young Folks, Vol 1, No. 1 » by Various
  • Then got to be a designing engineer and now—well—there you are!
  • Extract from : « Mixed Faces » by Roy Norton
  • Then that poor child would be safe from these designing, horrid people.
  • Extract from : « Chance » by Joseph Conrad
  • Yet not a single whisper of what the nation was designing and planning leaked abroad.
  • Extract from : « Bulgaria » by Frank Fox

Synonyms for designing

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