designedly

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

English designed

Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der.

Proto-Germanic *līkąder.

Proto-Germanic *-līkaz

Proto-Germanic *-ê

Proto-Germanic *-līkê

Proto-West Germanic *-līkē

Old English -līċe

Middle English -ly

English -ly

English designedly

From designed + -ly.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dɪˈzaɪ.nɪd.li/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Adverb

designedly (comparative more designedly, superlative most designedly)

1. By design; intentionally; according to plan.
   • 1879, F. D. Morice, Pindar, chapter 5, page 76:

     But such language is merely intended to heighten the illusion which he has designedly produced, to give his carefully-elaborated poem the air of an improvisation.

   • 1962 November, “Talking of Trains: The one-day strike”, in Modern Railways, page 291:

     The unions themselves had accepted the inevitability of some reduction because of the designedly more durable character of modern equipment—[...].

Translations

in a designed manner

• Bulgarian: преднамерено (bg) (prednamereno), умишлено (bg) (umišleno)

References

• “designedly”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.