Synonyms for design
dɪˈzaɪn

Princeton's WordNet(3.00 / 2 votes)Rate these synonyms:

1. design, designing(noun)

   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"

   Synonyms:
   purpose, blueprint, excogitation, innovation, designing, intention, figure, aim, pattern, plan, invention, intent, conception

2. design, plan(noun)

   an arrangement scheme

   "the awkward design of the keyboard made operation difficult"; "it was an excellent design for living"; "a plan for seating guests"

   Synonyms:
   intention, aim, program, figure, designing, programme, plan, excogitation, conception, pattern, blueprint, intent, invention, architectural plan, innovation, purpose

3. blueprint, design, pattern(noun)

   something intended as a guide for making something else

   "a blueprint for a house"; "a pattern for a skirt"

   Synonyms:
   intention, aim, form, approach pattern, figure, designing, formula, rule, radiation pattern, practice, plan, excogitation, conception, pattern, blueprint, traffic pattern, radiation diagram, intent, invention, convention, shape, innovation, normal, purpose

4. design, pattern, figure(noun)

   a decorative or artistic work

   "the coach had a design on the doors"

   Synonyms:
   image, figure, intention, flesh, formula, frame, shape, traffic pattern, fig, figure of speech, chassis, approach pattern, physical body, trope, radiation diagram, soma, innovation, rule, human body, blueprint, radiation pattern, conception, excogitation, purpose, form, physique, plan, designing, aim, public figure, invention, number, convention, practice, digit, normal, bod, intent, name, pattern, anatomy, material body, build

5. purpose, intent, intention, aim, design(noun)

   an anticipated outcome that is intended or that guides your planned actions

   "his intent was to provide a new translation"; "good intentions are not enough"; "it was created with the conscious aim of answering immediate needs"; "he made no secret of his designs"

   Synonyms:
   intention, objective, use, determination, aim, designing, figure, role, purport, function, excogitation, conception, pattern, spirit, blueprint, object, intent, invention, target, innovation, bearing, purpose, plan, heading

6. design(noun)

   a preliminary sketch indicating the plan for something

   "the design of a building"

   Synonyms:
   purpose, blueprint, excogitation, innovation, designing, intention, figure, aim, pattern, plan, invention, intent, conception

7. invention, innovation, excogitation, conception, design(verb)

   the creation of something in the mind

   Synonyms:
   intention, foundation, initiation, instauration, introduction, construct, designing, figure, creation, plan, excogitation, conception, aim, intent, blueprint, institution, founding, innovation, pattern, invention, origination, concept, purpose

8. plan, project, contrive, design(verb)

   make or work out a plan for; devise

   "They contrived to murder their boss"; "design a new sales strategy"; "plan an attack"

   Synonyms:
   throw, see, protrude, visualize, figure, excogitate, jut, forge, propose, cast, externalise, plan, image, project, devise, fancy, visualise, stick out, invent, contrive, send off, picture, envision, jut out, externalize, formulate, be after

9. design(verb)

   plan something for a specific role or purpose or effect

   "This room is not designed for work"

   Synonyms:
   project, plan, contrive

10. design(verb)

    create the design for; create or execute in an artistic or highly skilled manner

    "Chanel designed the famous suit"

    Synonyms:
    project, plan, contrive

11. design, plan(verb)

    make a design of; plan out in systematic, often graphic form

    "design a better mousetrap"; "plan the new wing of the museum"

    Synonyms:
    project, plan, contrive, be after

12. design(verb)

    create designs

    "Dupont designs for the house of Chanel"

    Synonyms:
    project, plan, contrive

13. design(verb)

    conceive or fashion in the mind; invent

    "She designed a good excuse for not attending classes that day"

    Synonyms:
    project, plan, contrive

14. design(verb)

    intend or have as a purpose

    "She designed to go far in the world of business"

    Synonyms:
    project, plan, contrive

English Synonyms and Antonyms(3.00 / 3 votes)Rate these synonyms:

1. design

   Design refers to the adaptation of means to an end, the correspondence and coordination of parts, or of separate acts, to produce a result; intent and purpose overleap all particulars, and fasten on the end itself. Intention is simply the more familiar form of the legal and philosophical intent. Plan relates to details of form, structure, and action, in themselves; design considers these same details all as a means to an end. The plan of a campaign may be for a series of sharp attacks, with the design of thus surprising and overpowering the enemy. A man comes to a fixed intention to kill his enemy; he forms a plan to entrap him into his power, with the design of then compassing his death; as the law can not read the heart, it can only infer the intent from the evidences of design. Intent denotes a straining, stretching forth toward an object; purpose simply the placing it before oneself; hence, we speak of the purpose rather than the intent or intention of God. We hold that the marks of design in nature prove it the work of a great Designer. Intention contemplates the possibility of failure; purpose looks to assured success; intent or intention refers especially to the state of mind of the actor; purpose to the result of the action. Compare AIM; CAUSE; IDEA; MODEL.

   Synonyms:
   aim, device, end, end, final cause, intent, intention, object, plan, project, proposal, purpose, scheme

   Preposition:
   The design of defrauding; the design of a building; a design for a statue.

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms(3.60 / 10 votes)Rate these synonyms:

1. design(v)

   Synonyms:
   contemplate, pur, pose, intend, plan, prepare, project

   Antonyms:
   hit, risk, guess, conjecture, chance, fluke, misconceive, miscontrive

2. design(n)

   Synonyms:
   contemplation, pur pose, intention, plan, preparation draft, delineation, sketch, drawing, artifice, cunning, artfulness, guile, contrivance, intent, project, scheme

   Antonyms:
   execution, performance, result, issue, construction, structure, candor, fairness, openness, artlessness, sincerity, simplicity, change, incident

Dictionary of English Synonymes(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate these synonyms:

1. design(v. a.)

   Synonyms:
   project, plan, devise, contrive, scheme, concoct, brew, purpose, intend, mean, propose to one's self, have in view

2. design(v. a.)

   Synonyms:
   draw, delineate, sketch, describe, trace out

3. design(n.)

   Synonyms:
   intention, intent, purpose, project, plan, device, scheme, proposal, aim, intent, meaning, purport, drift, scope, object, mark

4. design(n.)

   Synonyms:
   sketch, drawing, outline, delineation, plan, draught

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words(5.00 / 1 vote)Rate these synonyms:

1. design(n)

   Synonyms:
   sketch, draught, outline, plan, scheme, intention, purpose, project, intent, aim

   Associated words:
   teleology, teleologist, teleological

PPDB, the paraphrase database(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate these synonyms:

1. List of paraphrases:

   layout, designing, conception, designs, designed, devise, drawings, concept, drawing, develop, formulation, model, styling, conceive, devising, concepción, development, designer, calculation, elaboration, determination, style, planning, conceptualization, dimensioning, conceiving, vision, engineering, preparation, plan, formulate, construction

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1. Melody Loveless:

   Collecting apps are statistically very popular, so that’s why they came up with the idea that when you progress through the app you can collect coins so you can buy clothes, everything they did was heavily researched, nothing was done just because, which is just a great design skill, that’s what makes great designers, so I ’m really proud of them for that.

2. Valentin Galardi:

   We have as a short-term goal that the design for an appropriate law gets finished, so mutual funds have the space they need to grow in Argentina, including the appearance of new assets to invest in, we are very optimistic.

3. Alejandro Aravena:

   This is not, even for a second, a kind of romantic look at the favela as a kind of a pre-civilized, paradisic state of living, not at all. I mean, the favela is a disaster. But there are forces there that we should be able to channel through design.

4. Toby Bateman:

   Keep it simple and timeless with classic design, something that would look good with a suit or your weekend clothes, if you follow this advice then you are unlikely to see your watch 'go out of fashion.

5. Andrew Bailey:

   It does point to issues that we need to look at in the design of these things, because it comes back to my fundamental point about holding illiquid assets in open end funds that revalue and are required to be revalued, my own feeling is... that we will need to come back and look at those.

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