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PAINTED
motley, calico, multicolor, multi-color, multicolour, multi-colour, multicolored, multi-colored, multicoloured, multi-coloured, painted, particolored, particoloured, piebald, pied, varicolored, varicoloured
(adjective) having sections or patches colored differently and usually brightly; “a jester dressed in motley”; “the painted desert”; “a particolored dress”; “a piebald horse”; “pied daisies”
painted
(adjective) lacking substance or vitality as if produced by painting; “in public he wore a painted smile”
painted
(adjective) coated with paint; “freshly painted lawn furniture”
painted
(adjective) having makeup applied; “brazen painted faces”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Verb
painted
simple past tense and past participle of paint
Adjective
painted (not comparable)
Coated with paint.
Depicted in paint.
Colorful, as if painted
Wearing makeup
Anagrams
• antidep, depaint, inadept, pantied, patined, tenidap
Source: Wiktionary
Paint"ed, a.
1. Covered or adorned with paint; portrayed in colors. As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean. Coleridge.
2. (Nat. Hist.)
Definition: Marked with bright colors; as, the painted turtle; painted bunting. Painted beauty (Zoöl.), a handsome American butterfly (Vanessa Huntera), having a variety of bright colors, -- Painted cup (Bot.), any plant of an American genus of herbs (Castilleia) in which the bracts are usually bright-colored and more showy than the flowers. Castilleia coccinea has brilliantly scarlet bracts, and is common in meadows.
– Painted finch. See Nonpareil.
– Painted lady (Zoöl.), a bright-colored butterfly. See Thistle butterfly.
– Painted turtle (Zoöl.), a common American freshwater tortoise (Chrysemys picta), having bright red and yellow markings beneath.
PAINT
Paint, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Painted; p. pr. & vb. n. Painting.] Etym: [OE. peinten, fr. F. peint, p. p. opeindre to paint, fr. L. pingere, pictum; cf. Gr. many-colored, Skr. pic to adorn. Cf. Depict, Picture, Pigment, Pint.]
1. To cover with coloring matter; to apply paint to; as, to paint a house, a signboard, etc. Jezebel painted her face and tired her head. 2 Kings ix. 30.
2. Fig.: To color, stain, or tinge; to adorn or beautify with colors; to diversify with colors. Not painted with the crimson spots of blood. Shak. Cuckoo buds of yellow hue Do paint the meadows with delight. Shak.
3. To form in colors a figure or likeness of on a flat surface, as upon canvas; to represent by means of colors or hues; to exhibit in a tinted image; to portray with paints; as, to paint a portrait or a landscape.
4. Fig.: To represent or exhibit to the mind; to describe vividly; to delineate; to image; to depict. Disloyal The word is too good to paint out her wickedness. Shak. If folly grow romantic, I must paint it. Pope.
Syn.
– To color; picture; depict; portray; delineate; sketch; draw; describe.
Paint, v. t.
1. To practice the art of painting; as, the artist paints well.
2. To color one's face by way of beautifying it. Let her paint an inch thick. Shak.
Paint, n.
1. (a) A pigment or coloring substance. (b) The same prepared with a vehicle, as oil, water with gum, or the like, for application to a surface.
2. A cosmetic; rouge. Praed.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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