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

1. transitive verb. Designated; appointed; chosen.
2. transitive 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.
3. transitive verb. To call by a distinctive title; to name.
4. transitive 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.
5. verb. design or destine

   "She was intended to become the director"

   Synonyms: destine, intend, specify

6. verb. decree or designate beforehand

   "She was destined to become a great pianist"

   Synonyms: destine, doom, fate

7. verb. 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

8. verb. assign a name or title to

   Synonyms: denominate

9. verb. give an assignment to (a person) to a post, or assign a task to (a person)

   Synonyms: assign, delegate, depute

10. adjective. 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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