Definition of Designed

1. Adjective. Done or made or performed with purpose and intent. "Well-designed houses"

Exact synonyms: Intentional
Similar to: Fashioned
Antonyms: Undesigned
Derivative terms: Intentionality

Definition of Designed

1. Verb. (past of design) ¹

2. Adjective. created according to a design ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Designed

1. design [v] - See also: design

Lexicographical Neighbors of Designed

designated
designated driver
designated drivers
designated hitter
designated hitters
designated survivor
designates
designating
designation
designations
designative
designator
designators
designatory
designatum
designed (current term)
designed(a)
designedly
designedness
designee
designees
designer
designer baby
designer drug
designer drugs
designer oestrogen
designerati
designerless
designerly
designers

Literary usage of Designed

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1899)
"The course is designed for a limited number of students who are prepared to begin investigation. A special problem will be assigned to each member of the ..."

2. The Novels of Jane Austen by Jane Austen (1892)
"THE conference was neither so short nor so conclusive as the lady had designed. The gentleman was not so easily satisfied. He had all the disposition to ..."

3. Journal: 1st-13th Congress . Repr. 14th Congress, 1st Session by United States Congress. House (1837)
"In never asssuming, even for a well-meant object, such powers as were not designed to be conferred upon it, we shall in reality do most for the general ..."

4. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1882)
"The first is designed by Ida Waugh, and is quite л novelty, being almost entirely made up of pictures of babies, awake, asleep, laughing, crying, ..."

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