Synonyms for appointed
ap·point·ed

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1. appointive, appointedadjective

   subject to appointment

   Synonyms:
   prescribed, ordained, appointive, decreed

   Antonyms:
   unfurnished, unassigned, unsettled

2. appointedadjective

   selected for a job

   "the one appointed for guard duty"

   Synonyms:
   prescribed, ordained, appointive, decreed

   Antonyms:
   unassigned, unfurnished, unsettled

3. appointed, decreed, ordained, prescribedadjective

   fixed or established especially by order or command

   "at the time appointed (or the appointed time")

   Synonyms:
   prescribed, ordained, official, appointive, decreed, positive

   Antonyms:
   unfurnished, unsettled, unassigned

4. appointedadjective

   provided with furnishing and accessories (especially of a tasteful kind)

   "a house that is beautifully appointed"

   Synonyms:
   prescribed, ordained, appointive, decreed

   Antonyms:
   unfurnished, unsettled, unassigned

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1. encharge

   to be given the responsibility of doing a task or providing a material thing.

   Submitted by rinat on June 1, 2017  

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1. List of paraphrases for "appointed":

   designated, named, nominated, appointment, appoint, ain, appointing, appointments, assigned, recruited, ein, designate, called, appoints, minister-designate, identified, re-appointed

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1. Claude Pepper:

   The mistake a lot of politicians make is forgetting they've been appointed and thinking they've been anointed.

2. Archibald Cox:

   Now, eventually a president can always work his will, you remember when Andrew Jackson wanted to take the deposits from the Bank of the United States and his secretary of the treasury wouldn't do it. He fired him and then he appointed a new secretary of the treasury, and he wouldn't do it, and he fired him. And finally he got a third who would. That's one way of proceeding.

3. Sunrise Movement:

   You really use that convening power and authority to move forward on this crisis, whether or not Democrats have the Republican Senate, it's something that Joe Biden without having to go through Republican Senate. It doesn't have to be appointed. It's not like a cabinet pick that would have to be approved.

4. Kevin Spacey:

   Creatively, it is the best it can get, i also think that whether people want to admit it or not, the days of appointed viewing (times) are more behind us than ahead of us.

5. Lindsey Graham:

   I wish you had that same attitude when an African American conservative is appointed to high office in the Judiciary, so rather than this wonderful exchange, which was wonderful, Rep. Green, where were you and others when there was a wholesale assault on her nomination? Nowhere to be found.