APPOINTED Synonyms: 70 Similar and Opposite Words

appointed

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Definition of appointed

past tense of appoint

as in set

to decide upon (the time or date for an event) usually from a position of authority at the appointed hour we were in our places

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to pick (someone) by one's authority for a specific position or duty was appointed to the council on national security

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Recent Examples of appointed Because the mayor has not appointed any of the other members, judicial appointments have stalled. — Christian Browne, New York Daily News, 18 July 2026 She was considered more vulnerable than Perdue after being appointed to replace Johnny Isakson, who retired because of health issues. — ABC News, 18 July 2026 The Minneapolis Institute of Art (MIA) has appointed Kevin Tervala chief of curatorial affairs and exhibitions. — News Desk, Artforum, 17 July 2026 In May 2026, the state comptroller appointed a five-member advisory committee and issued a request for proposals for custody and liquidity services. — Sean Stein Smith, Forbes.com, 17 July 2026 Carr’s predecessor, Jessica Rosenworcel, who was appointed FCC chair by President Joe Biden and stepped down in January 2025, attended regularly. — ArsTechnica, 17 July 2026 The assessor role has been appointed in Jackson County for about a decade. — Ilana Arougheti, Kansas City Star, 17 July 2026 Jackson made history as the first-ever Black woman appointed to the role. — Austin Horn, Miami Herald, 17 July 2026 Abbott has appointed longtime GOP aide Robert Howden as Texas’ 116th secretary of state, putting the governor’s senior advisor in charge of elections months before the 2026 midterms. — Mateo Rosiles, USA Today, 17 July 2026

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Verb

In the aftermath of COVID-19, the ultrawealthy set their sights on Florida for its laissez-faire attitude.

— Jacqui Palumbo, CNN Money, 21 July 2026
Rotating between a starter and an impact substitute, Barcola seemed to be in a hurry to stamp his attacking authority on games and set France on the front foot.

— Mark Carey, New York Times, 21 July 2026

Definition of set

Verb

The division charged with keeping a handle on parasitic diseases had already been small, with only a few employees designated to parasite work.

— Blake Ellis, CNN Money, 20 July 2026
Uruguay won the first World Cup on home soil that year, at the Estadio Centenario in Montevideo—still the only stadium FIFA has ever named a Historical Monument of World Football, designated in 1983.

— Paul Jebara, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 July 2026

Definition of designated

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Rampersad, a sergeant who was believed to have been killed in Friday's attacks, was assigned to the 57th Air Defense Artillery Regiment, 52nd Air Defense Artillery Brigade, 10th Army Air and Missile Defense Command in Ansbach, Germany.

— ABC News, ABC News, 22 July 2026
The personal finance site then assigned the cities a score out of 100.

— Sacbee.com, Sacbee.com, 22 July 2026

Definition of assigned

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Harvick, who on May 19th was named to the latest class in the NASCAR Hall Of Fame and will be inducted next January, believes his first Brickyard 400 win on August 3, 2003, served as the launching pad to his Hall of Fame career.

— Bruce Martin, Forbes.com, 24 July 2026
Jürgen Klopp has been named as head coach of Germany’s men’s national soccer team, the German Football Association announced Friday.

— Thomas Schlachter, CNN Money, 24 July 2026

Definition of named

Verb

And because God is Spirit, our identity is wholly spiritual, constituted of all the qualities of God.

— Leslie Revilock, Christian Science Monitor, 20 July 2026
But Boasberg said that the State Department’s argument clashed with its own assessment of what constituted a foreign sovereign threat under the policy.

— Ashley Belanger, ArsTechnica, 15 July 2026

Definition of constituted

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Smith was on the 11-member search committee that picked the finalist candidates and weeded Epstein out of the list of top 20 candidates.

— Austin Horn July 24, Miami Herald, 24 July 2026
The six states picked to be first together tell the story of who the Democratic party is, said Debbie Dingell, a congresswoman from Michigan, urging members to not read too much into who was given the first slot.

— Maham Javaid, NPR, 24 July 2026

Definition of picked

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In one of Kent Nishimura’s photographs of the White House press corps, which The New Yorker commissioned, the correspondent Beni Harmony readies herself for a segment featuring the President and the First Lady.

— Katy Waldman, New Yorker, 24 July 2026
Nobody knows quite who commissioned it, or why Diana wore it that night.

— Marta Martínez Tato, Vanity Fair, 23 July 2026

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