designˈer noun

1. A person who provides designs or patterns
2. A draughtsman
3. A plotter
4. Someone who designs sets for plays, operas, films, etc

1. Of or relating to a designer
2. Designed by (and bearing the name of) a known fashion designer
3. Designed, created to follow the fashionable trend or image (loosely; slightly derogatory)
4. Custom-made, for a specific purpose or effect

designˈful adjective

Full of design

designˈing adjective

1. Artful
2. Scheming
3. Working secretly for self-interest

The art of making designs or patterns

designˈingly adverb

designˈless adjective

designˈment noun (obsolete)

1. The design or sketch of a work
2. Intention, purpose, enterprise (Shakespeare), etc

design engineer noun

A designer in engineering

designer baby noun (informal)

A child in whose conception genetic engineering techniques are used in order to assure specific genetic characteristics

designer drug noun

1. A drug manufactured so as to produce the same (esp hallucinogenic or narcotic) effects as one already existing (esp one restricted or illegal), by modifying the contents
2. A drug designed for a specific purpose

argument from design

The argument for the existence of God from evidence of design in creation

by design

Intentionally

have designs on

To have plans to appropriate