Usually means: Guided or managed towards a goal.
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General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. directed: Merriam-Webster
  2. directed: Collins English Dictionary
  3. directed: Vocabulary.com
  4. Directed, directed: Wordnik
  5. directed: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. directed: Wiktionary
  7. directed: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. directed: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. Directed, directed: Dictionary.com
  10. directed: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  11. Directed: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Directed: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. directed: Rhymezone
  14. Directed: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. directed: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  16. directed: FreeDictionary.org
  17. directed: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. directed: TheFreeDictionary.com
  19. directed: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. directed: Legal dictionary
  2. directed: Financial dictionary
  3. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. directed: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. directed: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. directed: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (directed)

▸ adjective:  In a manner emphasizing one's point of view.
▸ adjective:  (graph theory) Having the properties of a directed graph.
▸ adjective:  (set theory) Having the properties of a directed set.

Similar:
oriented, manageable, orientated, instructed, steer, produced, forward, act, channeled, accompanied, more...

Opposite:
indirect, unguided, random, aimless, spontaneous

Types:
linear, cyclic, branching, recursive, more...

Phrases:
directed at, directed verdict, directed graph, goal directed, directed path, more...

Adjectives:
self, goal, pattern, site, state, teacher, syntax, inner, antibody, symptom, list

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Similar:
oriented, manageable, orientated, instructed, steer, produced, forward, act, channeled, accompanied, more...

Opposite:
indirect, unguided, random, aimless, spontaneous

Types:
linear, cyclic, branching, recursive, more...

Phrases:
directed at, directed verdict, directed graph, goal directed, directed path, Directed evolution, directed verdicts, directed panspermia, directed donation, self directed, other directed, inner directed, more...

Adjectives:
self, goal, pattern, site, state, teacher, syntax, inner, antibody, symptom, list

Colors:
    red,     blue,     green,     yellow,     orange, more...



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