Meaning of painted in English

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  1. Pronunciation
  2. Classifying Adjective
    1. Definitions
  3. Qualitative Adjective
    1. Definitions

  1. Pronunciation

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  1. Classifying Adjective

    painted

    Definitions

    1. represented in a painting

    Examples

    • « as idle as a painted ship upon a painted ocean »

    Synonyms

  2. 2. lacking substance or vitality as if produced by painting

    Examples

    • « in public he wore a painted smile »

    Synonyms

  3. 3. having sections or patches colored differently and usually brightly

    Examples

    • « a jester dressed in motley »
    • « the painted desert »
    • « a particolored dress »
    • « a piebald horse »
    • « pied daisies »

    Synonyms

  4. Qualitative Adjective

    painted

    Definitions

    1. coated with paint

    Examples

    • « freshly painted lawn furniture »

    Synonyms

    Antonyms

  5. 2. having makeup applied

    Examples

    • « brazen painted faces »

    Synonyms

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Famous quotes

  • « Most women are not as young as they are painted. »
    Max Beerbohm
  • « But if people want to swim in the Thames, if they want to take their lives into their own hands, then they should be able to do so with all the freedom and exhilaration of our woad-painted ancestors. »
    Boris Johnson
  • « Imagination is the key to my lyrics. The rest is painted with a little science fiction. »
    Jimi Hendrix
  • « I had bohemian parents in Seattle in the last '60s living in a houseboat. My dad wrote science fiction novels and painted big murals and oil paintings. »
    Rainn Wilson
  • « You go through at least the first two years of Star Trek and you find some amazing stuff. Everything that was going on Gene put into the series. He just put strange costumes on the actors and painted them funny colours and left the same situation in. »
    Majel Barrett

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