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PAINTED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Having sections or patches colored differently and usually brightly
Example:
pied daisies
Synonyms:
calico; motley; multi-color; multi-colored; multi-colour; multi-coloured; multicolor; multicolored; multicolour; multicoloured; painted; particolored; particoloured; piebald; pied; varicolored; varicoloured
Classified under:
Similar:
colored; colorful; coloured (having color or a certain color; sometimes used in combination)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Lacking substance or vitality as if produced by painting
Example:
in public he wore a painted smile
Classified under:
Similar:
artificial; unreal (contrived by art rather than nature)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Coated with paint
Example:
freshly painted lawn furniture
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
finished (having a surface coating or finish applied)
stained; varnished (having a coating of stain or varnish)
whitewashed (coated with whitewash)
Also:
finished ((of materials or goods) brought to the desired final state)
Antonym:
unpainted (not having a coat of paint or badly in need of a fresh coat)
Sense 4
Meaning:
Having makeup applied
Example:
brazen painted faces
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
rouged (marked by the use of various kinds of red makeup)
Antonym:
unpainted (not having makeup on)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb paint
Context examples:
But it was stationary; and as the gentleman advanced into the light, I saw that he was some years older than when he had had his picture painted.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
The sign was newly painted; the windows had neat red curtains; the floor was cleanly sanded.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
Amy's dainty pen-and-ink work entirely eclipsed May's painted vases—that was one thorn.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
"I believe it is the same place as the painted picture," said I.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
To an imagination which had hoped for the smallest divisions, and the heaviest stone-work, for painted glass, dirt, and cobwebs, the difference was very distressing.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
A Chinese company has unveiled a driverless bus-train hybrid that uses white lines painted on the road to navigate.
(Driverless Bus-train Hybrid Runs on Virtual Painted Tracks, VOA)
Then the king’s son wished for one, and she immediately stood before him, and was more beautiful than any painter could have painted her.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
The tomb contains a mummy wrapped in linen, clay vessels, a collection of about 450 statues, and painted wooden funerary masks.
(Discovery of Two Tombs Dating Back 3,500 Years Announced in Egypt, VOA)
The Colonel, though disclaiming all pretensions to connoisseurship, warmly admired the screens, as he would have done any thing painted by Miss Dashwood; and on the curiosity of the others being of course excited, they were handed round for general inspection.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
I painted my face, and to make myself as pitiable as possible I made a good scar and fixed one side of my lip in a twist by the aid of a small slip of flesh-coloured plaster.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
