Word Meanings - DESIGNING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of DESIGNING)

• Artful
• Cunning
• designing
• maneuvering
• sharp
• knowing
• subtle
• sly
• crafty
• wily
• shrewd
• Deep
• Profound
• subterranean
• submerged
• abstruse
• recondite
• learned
• low
• sagacious
• penetrating
• thick
• obscure
• mysterious
• occult
• Intense
• heartfelt
• Insidious
• Wily
• treacherous
• dangerous
• deceitful
• artful

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of DESIGNING)

• Reveal
• make known
• discover

Related words: (words related to DESIGNING)

• THICKENING
  Something put into a liquid or mass to make it thicker.
• KNOWINGLY
  1. With knowledge; in a knowing manner; intelligently; consciously; deliberately; as, he would not knowingly offend. Strype. 2. By experience. Shak.
• OCCULTISM
  A certain Oriental system of theosophy. A. P. Sinnett.
• DESIGN
  drawing, dessein a plan or scheme; all, ultimately, from L. designare to designate; de- + signare to mark, mark out, signum mark, sign. See 1. To draw preliminary outline or main features of; to sketch for a pattern or model; to delineate; to trace
• CRAFTY
  1. Relating to, or characterized by, craft or skill; dexterous. "Crafty work." Piers Plowman. 2. Possessing dexterity; skilled; skillful. A noble crafty man of trees. Wyclif. 3. Skillful at deceiving others; characterized by craft; cunning; wily.
• THICK WIND
  A defect of respiration in a horse, that is unassociated with noise in breathing or with the signs of emphysema.
• OCCULT
  Hidden from the eye or the understanding; inviable; secret; concealed; unknown. It is of an occult kind, and is so insensible in its advances as to escape observation. I. Taylor. Occult line , a line drawn as a part of the construction of a figure
• SHARPLY
  In a sharp manner,; keenly; acutely. They are more sharply to be chastised and reformed than the rude Irish. Spenser. The soldiers were sharply assailed with wants. Hayward. You contract your eye when you would see sharply. Bacon.
• DESIGNATE
  Designated; appointed; chosen. Sir G. Buck.
• OBSCURENESS
  Obscurity. Bp. Hall.
• INSIDIOUS
  insidere to sit in; pref. in- + sedere to sit: cf. F. insidieux. See 1. Lying in wait; watching an opportunity to insnare or entrap; deceitful; sly; treacherous; -- said of persons; as, the insidious foe. "The insidious witch." Cowper. 2. Intended
• OBSCURER
  One who, or that which, obscures.
• SHARPER
  A person who bargains closely, especially, one who cheats in bargains; a swinder; also, a cheating gamester. Sharpers, as pikes, prey upon their own kind. L'Estrange. Syn. -- Swindler; cheat; deceiver; trickster; rogue. See Swindler.
• KNOWINGNESS
  The state or quality of being knowing or intelligent; shrewdness; skillfulness.
• KNOW-NOTHING
  A member of a secret political organization in the United States, the chief objects of which were the proscription of foreigners by the repeal of the naturalization laws, and the exclusive choice of native Americans for office. Note: The
• CUNNINGNESS
  Quality of being cunning; craft.
• THICK-SKINNED
  Having a thick skin; hence, not sensitive; dull; obtuse. Holland.
• SUBTLE
  subtil, OF. soutil, later subtil, F. subtil, L. subtilis; probably, originally, woven fine, and fr. sub under + tela a web, fr. texere to 1. Sly in design; artful; cunning; insinuating; subtile; -- applied to persons; as, a subtle foe. "A subtle
• ABSTRUSELY
  In an abstruse manner.
• THICKNESS
  The quality or state of being thick (in any of the senses of the adjective).
• PREKNOWLEDGE
  Prior knowledge.
• INTERPENETRATE
  To penetrate between or within; to penetrate mutually. It interpenetrates my granite mass. Shelley.
• HALF-LEARNED
  Imperfectly learned.
• FOREKNOWER
  One who foreknows.
• SUBOBSCURELY
  Somewhat obscurely or darkly. Donne.