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say it: di-ZAHYND
designed is an adjective meaning "done or made or performed with purpose and intent". It is pronounced /dɪˈzaɪnd/ — di-ZAHYND. It carries one recorded sense.
done or made or performed with purpose and intent
“style...is more than the deliberate and designed creation”
“games designed for all ages”
“well-designed houses”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for designed come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.