English Explanatory Dictionary

appoint

English dictionary entry

Meanings

verb
  1. To set, fix or determine (a time or place for something such as a meeting, or the meeting itself) by authority or agreement.
  2. To name (someone to a post or role).
  3. To furnish or equip (a place) completely; to provide with all the equipment or furnishings necessary; to fit out.
  4. To equip (someone) with (something); to assign (someone) authoritatively (some equipment).
  5. To fix the disposition of (property) by designating someone to take use of (it).
  6. To fix with power or firmness by decree or command; to ordain or establish.
  7. To resolve; to determine; to ordain.

Pronunciation

/əˈpɔɪnt/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-appoint.wav

Word forms

appoint appoints appointing appointed

Etymology

From Middle English apointen, borrowed from Old French apointier (“to prepare, arrange, lean, place”) (French appointer (“to give a salary, refer a cause”)), from Late Latin appunctō (“to bring back to the point, restore, to fix the point in a controversy, or the points in an agreement”); Latin ad + punctum (“a point”). See point.

Synonyms

accredit allot assign choose command decide decree delegate designate direct elect enjoin employ equip furnish install nominate ordain settle tap make

Antonyms

decline disallow dismiss fire ignore neglect refuse reject revoke terminate unfurnish

Related words

point

Derived words

appointable appointee appointer appointive appointment appointor foreappoint preappoint reappoint self-appoint unappoint well-appointed
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