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undesigned

undesigned adjective: not designed, not intended.

Adjective

undesigned (not comparable)

  1. Not designed, not intended.
    • The living in this manner vvith him, and his vvith me, vvas certainly the moſt undeſigned thing in the VVorld; he often proteſted to me, that vvhen he became firſt acquainted vvith me, and even to the very Night vvhen vve firſt broke in upon our Rules, he never had the leaſt Deſign of lying vvith...1722 (indicated as 1721), [Daniel Defoe], The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders, &c. […], London: […] W[illiam Rufus] Chetwood, […]; and T. Edling, […], published 1722, →OCLC...
    • “Yes,” he ſaid, “I will ſend him anything I have;” and then began to enumerate the different articles in his power, among which he mentioned the bread-fruit. This was the exact point to which I wiſhed to bring the converſation; and, ſeizing an opportunity, which had every appearance of being...1792, William Bligh, chapter VI, in A Voyage to the South Sea, […] in His Majesty’s Ship The Bounty, […], London: […] George Nicol, […], →OCLC, page 73
    Synonyms:
    designless
  2. Not designed, not drawn or planned before being made.
    • Paul Poiret, the first celebrity couturier, left nothing undesigned, not only what a woman wore but everything she touched.1985 December 30, Martha Duffy, “Just the Way You Look Tonight Couture”, in Time, archived from the original on 22 Aug 2013
    • No, the new caring world of sustainable, recyclable, organic food gets the sustainable, recyclable, organic packaging it deserves and we must select from ranks of hessian bags marked with stout, sans-serif faces from a simpler era – packages that have been designed to within an inch of their lives...2012 February 24, Tim Hayward, “Memories served cold”, in Financial Times

Synonyms of undesigned

Origin of undesigned

From un- + designed.

Words formed from undesigned

Questions about undesigned

What does undesigned mean?
Undesigned means not designed, not intended.
What part of speech is undesigned?
Undesigned is an adjective.

Words near undesigned in the dictionary

  1. undeservingly
  2. undeservingness
  3. undesign
  4. undesignable
  5. undesignated
  6. undesigned
  7. undesignedly
  8. undesignedness
  9. undesigning
  10. undesigningly
  11. undesigningness

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