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UNDESIGNING

Definition: UNDESIGNING

UNDESIGNING

Adjective

1. Having no artful, ulterior, or fraudulent purpose; sincere; artless; simple.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "UNDESIGNING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1840. (references)


Synonym: UNDESIGNING

Synonym: Artless. (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: UNDESIGNING

ContextSynonyms 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.

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Crosswords: UNDESIGNING

English words defined with "UNDESIGNING": Simple obligation. (references)
Specialty definitions using "UNDESIGNING": limb. (references)

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Non-Fiction Usage: UNDESIGNING

SubjectTopicQuote

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.

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Modern Translation: UNDESIGNING

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

   

Spanish

  

candido (ingenuous, sincere). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

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)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Rhyming with "UNDESIGNING"

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)

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Anagrams: UNDESIGNING

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.

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Alternative Orthography: UNDESIGNING


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

55 4E 44 45 53 49 47 4E 49 4E 47

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

..-    -.    -..    .    ...    ..    --.    -.    ..    -.    --.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010101 01001110 01000100 01000101 01010011 01001001 01000111 01001110 01001001 01001110 01000111

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#85 &#78 &#68 &#69 &#83 &#73 &#71 &#78 &#73 &#78 &#71

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)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

5548383953434148434841

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INDEX

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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