Design, v. Intend, plan, prepare, project, contrive, scheme, purpose, mean, propose; draw, delineate, sketch; contemplate, outline, plot.

Ant. Risk, guess, conjecture, chance; misconceive, misinterpret, misrepresent.

Designate. Specify, particularize; describe, define, denominate, name, call, style, christen, dub; appoint, allot.

Ant. Misname, miscall; generalize; misrepresent.

Desirable. Eligible, expedient, advantageous, beneficial, advisable, valuable, profitable, enviable, proper, judicious.

Ant. Inexpedient, disadvantageous, harmful, inadvisable, evil.

Desire. Appetite, inclination, longing, proclivity, craving, impulse, hankering, coveting, propensity, wish; aspiration, will.

Ant. Loathing, disgust, aversion, hate, repugnance, horror.

Desolate, a. Bereaved, comfortless, forlorn, cheerless, lonely, solitary; uninhabited, forsaken, unfrequented, waste, dreary, wild.

Ant. Peopled, colonized, developed, cultivated; populous, crowded, frequented.