1. Subject to appointment
   "The appointed official took office immediately";
   - appointive
    
2. Selected for a job
   "the one appointed for guard duty"
    
3. Fixed or established especially by order or command
   "at the time appointed";
   - decreed, ordained, prescribed
    
4. Provided with furnishing and accessories (especially of a tasteful kind)
   "a house that is beautifully appointed"

1. Create and charge with a task or function
   "appoint a committee";
   - name, nominate, constitute
    
2. Assign a duty, responsibility or obligation to
   "He was appointed deputy manager";
   - charge
    
3. Furnish
   "a beautifully appointed house"

See also: assigned, equipped, furnished, nominated, nominative, nonelected, nonelective, non-elective, settled

Type of: act, constitute, equip, establish, fit, fit out, found, institute, move, outfit, plant

Antonym: elected

Encyclopedia: Appointed