designing

English

Verb

designing

1. present participle and gerund of design

Adjective

designing (comparative more designing, superlative most designing)

1. artful; scheming

   a designing man

Derived terms

• designingly
• undesigning

 

Translations

artful; scheming

• Irish: aidhmeannach

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?

Anagrams

• sdeigning