designing

de·sign·ing

adj \di-ˈzī-niŋ\

Definition of DESIGNING

1

: practicing forethought

2

: crafty, scheming <falling into the snares of a designing enemy — Charles Dickens>

Examples of DESIGNING

1. <he suspected his new admirer of being a designing woman who only wanted his money>

First Known Use of DESIGNING

1653

Related to DESIGNING

Synonyms: beguiling, cagey (also cagy), crafty, cunning, cute, artful, devious, dodgy [chiefly British], foxy, guileful, scheming, shrewd, slick, sly, subtle, tricky, wily

Antonyms: artless, guileless, ingenuous, innocent, undesigning

Related Words: astute, facile, glib, sharp; crooked, deceitful, deceptive, dishonest, fraudulent, insinuating, knavish, Machiavellian, oblique, serpentine, shady, shifty, slippery, sneaky, treacherous, underhand, underhanded, unscrupulous; backhanded, double-dealing, hypocritical, insincere, left-handed, mealy, mealymouthed, smooth-tongued, two-faced; circuitous, circular, roundabout; clandestine, concealed, covert, furtive, hugger-mugger, secret, stealthy, surreptitious, undercover; calculating, plotting

Near Antonyms: obvious, open, patent, plain, public, unconcealed; aboveboard, candid, direct, forthright, frank, honest, natural, outspoken, plainspoken, real, simple, sincere, straightforward, unaffected, unpretending, unpretentious, unvarnished; childlike, impressionable, simpleminded, unsophisticated, unworldly; unforced, unstudied; trustful, trusting

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Rhymes with DESIGNING

declining, inclining, long-lining