Associations to the word «Designing»

Wiktionary

DESIGNING, verb. Present participle of design
DESIGNING, adjective. Artful; scheming
DESIGNING, noun. A process of design.

Dictionary definition

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".
DESIGNING, adjective. Concealing crafty designs for advancing your own interest; "a selfish and designing nation obsessed with the dark schemes of European intrigue"- W.Churchill; "a scheming wife"; "a scheming gold digger".

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope