designing

1. 1.

   the act of working out the form of something (as by making a sketch or outline or plan)

   “he contributed to the design of a new instrument”

   Synonymsdesign

   Broadercreating by mental acts

   Narrowerplanning

1. 1.

   concealing crafty designs for advancing your own interest

   “a selfish and designing nation obsessed with the dark schemes of European intrigue”

   “a scheming wife”

   “a scheming gold digger”

   Synonymsscheming

   Similarartful

Other forms of designing

plural

designings·

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.

Questions about designing

What does designing mean?

designing means "the act of working out the form of something (as by making a sketch or outline or plan)". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in designing?

designing has 3 syllables: de-sig-ning. The stress falls on "sig". In IPA it is /dɪˈzaɪnɪŋ/.

What is another word for designing?

Close synonyms include design, scheming. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is designing a common word?

designing is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.