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Webster 1913 Edition


Designing

De-sign′ing

,
Adj.
Intriguing; artful; scheming;
as, a
designing
man
.

De-sign′ing

,
Noun.
The act of making designs or sketches; the act of forming designs or plans.

Webster 1828 Edition


Designing

DESIGNING

, ppr.
1.
Forming a design; plnning; delineating the outline; drawing figures on a plane.
2.
A. In an ill sense, artful; insidious; intriguing; contriving schemes of mischief; hence, deceitful. Designing men are always liable to suspicion.

DESIGNING

,
Noun.
The art of delineating objects.

Definition 2024


designing

designing

English

Verb

designing

  1. present participle of design

Adjective

designing (comparative more designing, superlative most designing)

  1. artful; scheming
    a designing man

Translations

Noun

designing (plural designings)

  1. A process of design.
    • 1829, Richard Carlile, The Lion
      Are these, the reality of things, a part of the great designings or are they not? If so, it would have been better, that there had been no such designings; if not, how is the theory of omnipotent design borne out?