designer

[ dih-zahy-ner ]

noun

1. a person who devises or executes designs, especially one who creates forms, structures, and patterns, as for works of art or machines.
2. a schemer, intriguer, or plotter.

adjective

1. designed or created by or carrying a label or identification of a designer, especially a fashion designer, but often mass-produced:

   designer jeans.

2. created for intentional effect through chemical or genetic modification, as for a designer drug, or through crossbreeding, as for a designer dog.

designer

/ dɪˈzaɪnə /

noun

1. a person who devises and executes designs, as for works of art, clothes, machines, etc
2. modifier designed by and bearing the label or signature of a well-known fashion designer

   designer jeans

3. modifier (of things, ideas, etc) having an appearance of fashionable trendiness

   designer pop songs

   designer stubble

4. modifier (of cells, chemicals, etc) designed (or produced) to perform a specific function or combat a specific problem

   designer insecticide

5. modifier (of an animal) cross-bred for a specific purpose, such as looks, temperament, or likelihood of causing an allergy

   designer dogs

6. a person who devises plots or schemes; intriguer

Other Words From

• self-de·sign·er noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of designer¹

First recorded in 1640–50; design + -er ¹

Example Sentences

His zero-waste yarn is now slowly garnering the attention of sustainable designers around the world.

From Ozy

Our June Insights puzzle featured a designer puppy named Dax who is a “Pomsky,” combining a Siberian husky’s handsome wolflike face with the size and fluffiness of a Pomeranian.

From Quanta Magazine

A human designer then selects the best options to present to the client.

From Singularity Hub 

The celebrated graphic designer had just turned 90 years old, perhaps defying expectations that he would live so long given his battle with kidney disease and a cornucopia of small pains and ticks that appear with age.

From Quartz

Within the mask market, a small high-end segment has emerged in the form of pricey designer masks and sought-after styles that trade at a premium on resale sites.

From Quartz

A few years back, designer John Galliano was fined by the government for sharing just such anti-semitic sentiments in public.

From The Daily Beast

His neighbors include some of the other designer outposts one finds speckled around the area.

From The Daily Beast

Her daughter, Elaina, 24, a trained costume designer and makeup artist, helps out by sewing clothes.

From The Daily Beast

Early in her career, she and designer Madeleine Vionnet sued a woman in Paris for copying some 20,000 sketches of their designs.

From The Daily Beast

Spanning more than 150 years, the exhibit exhaustively distinguishes designer pieces from licensed copies, adaptations, and fakes.

From The Daily Beast

You stayed there for five days, with your very good friend, Daisy Hennifer, the jewelry designer.

From Project Gutenberg

But Lasseroe was a maniac now and he wanted to take the life away from the jewelry designer.

From Project Gutenberg

The books lining the walls were real, he noticed idly—another painstaking point by the designer of the palace.

From Project Gutenberg

Who could look upon such a scene and not praise the Designer?

From Project Gutenberg

There may be a struggle outside the design, in the mind of the designer.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• architect
• author
• engineer
• fashion designer
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• maker
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