signposted
signposted is the simple past and past participle of signpost.
Meaning of signpost
Verb
signpost (third-person singular simple present signposts, present participle signposting, simple past and past participle signposted)
- To install signposts on.
- The route wasn't signposted, and we got lost on the way.
- To direct (somebody) to services, resources, etc.
- We believe that some Carers' Centres already offer an effective 'first stop shop' for signposting carers to local organisations, services and benefits, and for providing ongoing support as carers' circumstances change.2008, Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Work and Pensions Committee, Valuing and Supporting Carers (volume 1, page 31)
- To signal (something) intentionally, as if with a signpost.
- To indicate (as the logical progress of a discourse) using words or phrases such as now, right, to recap, to sum up, as I was saying, etc.
- Bede, never one to shrink from a challenge, focused his energies not only onto calculating Easter but also onto describing why the maths mattered as much as the result. In this, his elevated rhetoric is balanced by a very human enthusiasm — it's hard not to love a writer who signposts his core...2013 August 8, Charlotte Mulcare, “The lost mathematicians: Numbers in the (not so) dark ages”, in plus.maths.org, retrieved 08 Sep 2013
- To indicate (as the logical progress of a discourse) using words or phrases such as now, right, to recap, to sum up, as I was saying, etc.
Forms of signposted
| comparative | more signposted |
|---|---|
| superlative | most signposted |
Words formed from signposted
Questions about signposted
- What is signposted the simple past and past participle of?
- Signposted is the simple past and past participle of signpost.
Words near signposted in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: signposted (page history and authors); signpost (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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