appoint
appoint is a 7-letter English word with 10 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To fix with power or firmness; to establish; to mark out. Face value is 11 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- transitive verb. To fix with power or firmness; to establish; to mark out.
- transitive verb. To fix by a decree, order, command, resolve, decision, or mutual agreement; to constitute; to ordain; to prescribe; to fix the time and place of.
- transitive verb. To assign, designate, or set apart by authority.
- transitive verb. To furnish in all points; to provide with everything necessary by way of equipment; to equip; to fit out.
- transitive verb. To point at by way, or for the purpose, of censure or commendation; to arraign.
- transitive verb. To direct, designate, or limit; to make or direct a new disposition of, by virtue of a power contained in a conveyance; -- said of an estate already conveyed.
- intransitive verb. To ordain; to determine; to arrange.
- verb. furnish
"a beautifully appointed house"
- verb. create and charge with a task or function
"nominate a committee"
- verb. assign a duty, responsibility or obligation to
"He was appointed deputy manager"
"She was charged with supervising the creation of a concordance"
Synonyms
constitute, name, nominate, charge
Common word forms
appoints, appointed, appointer, appointing, appointable, appointment
Words from these letters
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