Dictionary Entry

designate

designate is a 9-letter English word with 10 senses as transitive verb, verb, and adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Designated; appointed; chosen. Face value is 11 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

9 letters · Scrabble 11 · Words With Friends 13 · 10 senses

Definitions

1transitive verb
Designated; appointed; chosen.
2transitive verb
To mark out and make known; to point out; to name; to indicate; to show; to distinguish by marks or description; to specify; as, to designate the boundaries of a country; to designate the rioters who are to be arrested.
3transitive verb
To call by a distinctive title; to name.
4transitive verb
To indicate or set apart for a purpose or duty; -- with to or for; to designate an officer for or to the command of a post or station.
5verb
design or destine
"She was intended to become the director"
Synonyms
destine intend specify
6verb
decree or designate beforehand
"She was destined to become a great pianist"
Synonyms
destine doom fate
7verb
indicate a place, direction, person, or thing; either spatially or figuratively
"I showed the customer the glove section"
"He pointed to the empty parking space"
Synonyms
indicate point show
8verb
assign a name or title to
Synonyms
denominate
9verb
give an assignment to (a person) to a post, or assign a task to (a person)
Synonyms
assign delegate depute
10adjective
appointed but not yet installed in office

Synonyms

destine intend specify doom fate indicate point show denominate assign delegate depute

Common word forms

designated designates designating

Words from these letters

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