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See definition of designating on Dictionary.com
  • as indescriptive
  • as inpointing

synonyms for designating

  • definitive
  • detailed
  • eloquent
  • expressive
  • identifying
  • illuminating
  • pictorial
  • revealing
  • vivid
  • anecdotic
  • characteristic
  • characterizing
  • circumstantial
  • classificatory
  • clear
  • delineative
  • depictive
  • describing
  • explicative
  • expository
  • extended
  • graphic
  • illuminative
  • illustrative
  • indicative
  • interpretive
  • lifelike
  • narrative
  • particularized
  • picturesque
  • specific
  • true to life
  • denoting
  • disclosing
  • displaying
  • evidencing
  • guiding
  • manifesting
  • marking
  • placing
  • revealing
  • showing
  • signifying
  • specifying
  • spotting
  • steering
On this page you'll find 55 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to designating, such as: definitive, detailed, eloquent, expressive, identifying, and illuminating.

antonyms for designating

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  • dull
  • confusing
  • cursory
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    How to use designating in a sentence

    The term covenant designating their relation to him as a people is not figuratively applied to it.
    THE ORDINANCE OF COVENANTINGJOHN CUNNINGHAM
    Both Carver and Peter Gross understood that he was designating how much longer the shadow must grow.
    THE ARGUS PHEASANTJOHN CHARLES BEECHAM
    The folly of thus designating over half our entire voting population does not strike the partisan.
    BELFORD'S MAGAZINE, VOL. II, NO. 3, FEBRUARY 1889VARIOUS
    Recent experiences have shown that it is unsafe to be too exact in designating places and the people who live in them.
    A MORTAL ANTIPATHYOLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, SR.
    The table volunteered a request by taps of its leg designating the letters of the alphabet, that MM.
    MYSTERIOUS PSYCHIC FORCESCAMILLE FLAMMARION
    Pro-Boer Propaganda is persisting in designating England as answering to that prophetic image destined to signal destruction.
    ORIGIN OF THE ANGLO-BOER WAR REVEALED (2ND ED.)C. H. THOMAS
    You will order two regiments (designating the two) to march early to-morrow morning to join me.
    FROM FARM HOUSE TO THE WHITE HOUSEWILLIAM M. THAYER
    He is fond of designating the knowledge of God to which the Greeks had attained by the term "περίφρασις."
    THE BASIS OF EARLY CHRISTIAN THEISMLAWRENCE THOMAS COLE
    A collection of fourteen paintings in oil on canvas, bearing inscriptions designating the name and succession of each monarch.
    CATALOGUE OF THE GALLERY OF ART OF THE NEW YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETYANONYMOUS
    SYNONYM OF THE DAY
    OCTOBER 26, 1985
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    WORDS RELATED TO DESIGNATING

    • denoting
    • designating
    • disclosing
    • displaying
    • evidencing
    • guiding
    • manifesting
    • marking
    • placing
    • revealing
    • showing
    • signifying
    • specifying
    • spotting
    • steering
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