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Definition: UNDESIGNING |
UNDESIGNINGAdjective1. Having no artful, ulterior, or fraudulent purpose; sincere; artless; simple. |
Date "UNDESIGNING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1840. (references) |
Synonym: UNDESIGNINGSynonym: Artless. (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Artlessness | Adjective: artless, natural, pure, native, confiding, simple, lain, inartificial, untutored, unsophisticated, ingenu, unaffected, naive; sincere, frank; open, open as day; candid, ingenuous, guileless; unsuspicious, honest; innocent; Arcadian; undesigning, straightforward, unreserved, aboveboard; simple-minded, single-minded; frank-hearted, open-hearted, single-hearted, simple-hearted. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: UNDESIGNING |
| English words defined with "UNDESIGNING": Simple obligation. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "UNDESIGNING": limb. (references) |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | LIMB, n. The branch of a tree or the leg of an American woman. 'Twas a pair of boots that the lady bought, And the salesman laced them tight To a very remarkable height -- Higher, indeed, than I think he ought -- Higher than can be right. For the Bible declares -- but never mind: It is hardly fit To censure freely and fault to find With others for sins that I'm not inclined Myself to commit. Each has his weakness, and though my own Is freedom from every sin, It still were unfair to pitch in, Discharging the first censorious stone. Besides, the truth compels me to say, The boots in question were made that way. As he drew the lace she made a grimace, And blushingly said to him: "This boot, I'm sure, is too high to endure, It hurts my -- hurts my -- limb." The salesman smiled in a manner mild, Like an artless, undesigning child; Then, checking himself, to his face he gave A look as sorrowful as the grave, Though he didn't care two figs For her paints and throes, As he stroked her toes, Remarking with speech and manner just Befitting his calling: "Madam, I trust That it doesn't hurt your twigs." B. Percival Dike |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Language | Translations for "UNDESIGNING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | наивен (artless, fond, green, guileless, gullible, ingenuous, jejune, naпve, naif, silly, simple, unsophisticated, untutored, unworldly, wide-eyed), без скрити намерения, без скрити мисли, без задни намерения, без задни мисли, без лоши намерения, без лоши мисли, простодушен (ingenuous, innocent, simple, unartful, unsophisticated). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Czech | neúmyslný (inadvertent, involuntary, unconscious, unintentional, unmeant, unpremeditated). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | candide (unwarped). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | aufrichtig (above-board, bluff, candid, earnest, earnestly, faithfully, Frank, frankly, genuine, genuinely, honest, honestly, ingenuous, ingenuously, open, sincere, sincerely, straightforward, truly, unaffected, unfeigned). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Italian | sincero (above-board, candid, heartfelt, honest, ingenuous, plain, sincere, true, truthful, unaffected). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Manx | neuchroutagh. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | esigningunday candido (ingenuous, sincere). (various references) samimi (candid, childlike, chummy, companionable, cordial, devout, earnest, familiar, folksy, forthright, Frank, free, freehearted, friendly, genuine, heartfelt, heart-to-heart, heart-whole, intimate, jannock, near, on the square, open armed, openhearted, outspoken, pally, sincere, single minded, single-eyed, single-hearted, truthful, unequivocal, warm, whole-hearted), içten (bluff, bona fide, candid, childlike, cordial, deep, deeply, devout, earnest, faithful, familiar, forthright, genuine, gut, hail-fellow-well-met, heartfelt, heart-to-heart, heart-whole, hearty, honest, honest-to-god, honest-to-goodness, ingenuous, internally, inwardly, kindly, open, open armed, openhearted, open-hearted, sincere, sincerely, true, true-hearted, truly, truthful, unaffected, unfeigned, whole-hearted), gizli maksadı olmayan. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
| Words rhyming with "UNDESIGNING" (pronounced 'Un`de*sign"ing'): Abearing, Aboding, Agoing, Awanting, Away-going, Awning, Aworking, Baaing, Ballooning, Birding, Birthing, Bocking, Bolling, Bridgeing, Cannonering, Carking, Colling, Crefting, Deglazing, During, firing, Fleaking, Fleming, flying, Foreholding, Gapesing, Ginging, Gloaming, grasping, grooving, interworking, Loring, Louping, Mandarining, Maying, Meaking, Miching, Misbecoming, Misfeeling, Misguiding, Mispleading, Misproceeding, Mistreading, Miting, Monking, morning, Muting, Newing, Noncomplying, Nonconcluding. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-g-g-i-i-n-n-n-s-u" | |
-2 letters: designing. | |
-3 letters: deigning, engining, ginnings, gunnings, indigens, singeing, unending, unsigned. | |
-4 letters: denning, dingies, dinging, dinning, dunging, dunning, edgings, endings, enduing, ensuing, ginning, ginseng, guiding, guising, gunnies, gunning, indigen, induing, innings, insigne, ninnies, nudging, seining, sending, sieging, signing, singing, sinning, snugged, sueding, sunning, undines. | |
-5 letters: deigns, design, dieing, dinges, dingus, dining, edging, ending, ennuis, ensign. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)55 4E 44 45 53 49 47 4E 49 4E 47 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)..- -. -.. . ... .. --. -. .. -. --. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010101 01001110 01000100 01000101 01010011 01001001 01000111 01001110 01001001 01001110 01000111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)U N D E S I G N I N G |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0055 004E 0044 0045 0053 0049 0047 004E 0049 004E 0047 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5548383953434148434841 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Quotations: Non-fiction | 5. Translations: Modern 6. Rhymes 7. Anagrams 8. Orthography | 9. Bibliography |
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