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Skillful vs Designing - What's the difference?

skillful | designing | Related terms |

As adjectives the difference between skillful and designing

is that skillful is possessing skill while designing is artful; scheming.

As a verb designing is

present participle of lang=en.

As a noun designing is

a process of design.

skillful

English

Alternative forms

* (l) (obsolete) * (Commonwealth English) skilful

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Possessing skill.

    • Synonyms

    * See also

    Related terms

    * skill * skilled * skillfully

    designing

    English

    (design)

    Verb

    (head)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • artful; scheming
    • a designing man

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A process of design.
  • * 1829 , Richard Carlile, The Lion
    • Are these, the reality of things, a part of the great designings or are they not? If so, it would have been better, that there had been no such designings; if not, how is the theory of omnipotent design borne out?