painted
adjUS /ˈpeɪ.nɪd/ · /ˈpeɪn.tɪd/
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Coated with paint.
- Large-scale projects such as motion-picture production use huge sets with seamless painted walls, cycs, and floors—not to mention a vast array of lights.2014, Jeff Foster, The Green Screen Handbook: Real-World Production Techniques, →ISBN, page 63:
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Depicted in paint.
- Sometimes the spatters extend a significant distance above other painted figures.2001, James D. Keyser, Michael Klassen, Plains Indian Rock Art, →ISBN, page 161:
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Colorful, as if painted.
- the painted desert
- painted turtle
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Wearing makeup.
- GET OFF THE STREET, YOU PAINTED JEZEBEL.1985, Law of the West, Commodore 64:
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Figuratively Superficial or cosmetic, without underlying depth of feeling.
- He had his mouth close to Lily's ear, hoping that this might be interpreted as affection. He felt Lily go rigid beneath the arm he had clasped about her, but that painted smile stayed on her face.c. 1953, H. A. DeRosso, .44 (page 143)
- Derived terms
43 terms
African painted frog, American painted lady, Australian painted snipe, electropainted, hand-painted, handpainted, Hula painted frog, negative-painted, nonpainted, not as black as one is painted, painted bamboo, painted bat, painted beauty, painted berrypecker, painted bristly mouse, painted bug, painted bunting, painted buttonquail, painted cat, painted comber, painted dog, painted drop tongue, painted finch, painted firetail, painted francolin, painted frog, painted grass, painted grasshawk, painted hound, painted hunting dog, painted Jezebel, painted lady, painted mantis shrimp, paintedness, painted-on, painted partridge, painted-snipe, painted snipe, painted tree rat, painted trillium, painted turtle, painted wolf, unpainted- Related terms
- finger-painted, painted by numbers, painted oneself into a corner, painted-out, painted the town red, painted with a broad brush, spray painted