painted
English
editPronunciation
editVerb
editpainted
- simple past and past participle of paint
Adjective
editpainted (not comparable)
- Coated with paint.
- 2014, Jeff Foster, The Green Screen Handbook: Real-World Production Techniques, →ISBN, page 63:
- 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.
- Depicted in paint.
- 2001, James D. Keyser, Michael Klassen, Plains Indian Rock Art, →ISBN, page 161:
- Sometimes the spatters extend a significant distance above other painted figures.
- Colorful, as if painted.
- the painted desert
- painted turtle
- Wearing makeup. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
- a painted lady
- (figurative) Superficial or cosmetic, without underlying depth of feeling.
- c. 1953, H. A. DeRosso, .44 (page 143)
- 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
edit- African painted frog
- American painted lady
- Australian painted snipe
- hand-painted
- Hula painted frog
- not as black as one is painted
- painted bat
- painted beauty
- painted bristly mouse
- painted bug
- painted bunting
- painted cat
- painted comber
- painted dog
- painted finch
- painted firetail
- painted francolin
- painted frog
- painted grass
- painted grasshawk
- painted hound
- painted hunting dog
- painted Jezebel
- painted lady
- painted mantis shrimp
- painted-on
- painted partridge
- painted snipe
- painted-snipe
- painted tree rat
- painted trillium
- painted turtle
- painted wolf
- unpainted
Translations
editpainted
See also
edit- finger-painted
- painted by numbers
- painted oneself into a corner
- painted-out
- painted the town red
- painted with a broad brush
- spray painted