PAINTED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does painted mean? 

• PAINTED (adjective)
  The adjective PAINTED has 4 senses:

1. coated with paint

2. lacking substance or vitality as if produced by painting

3. having makeup applied

4. having sections or patches colored differently and usually brightly

  Familiarity information: PAINTED used as an adjective is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PAINTED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Coated with paint

Context example:

freshly painted lawn furniture

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 2

Meaning:

Lacking substance or vitality as if produced by painting

Context example:

in public he wore a painted smile

Similar:

artificial; unreal (contrived by art rather than nature)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Having makeup applied

Context example:

brazen painted faces

Similar:

rouged (marked by the use of various kinds of red makeup)

Antonym:

unpainted (not having makeup on)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Having sections or patches colored differently and usually brightly

Synonyms:

calico; motley; multi-color; multi-colored; multi-colour; multi-coloured; multicolor; multicolored; multicolour; multicoloured; painted; particolored; particoloured; piebald; pied; varicolored; varicoloured

Context example:

pied daisies

Similar:

colored; colorful; coloured (having color or a certain color; sometimes used in combination)

 Context examples 

"You have painted many pictures in the telling," I said.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

"I had that door painted only last week," Mr. Higginbotham half whined, half bullied; "and you know what union wages are. You should be more careful."

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

These patterns, called 'lunar swirls,' appear almost painted on the surface of the moon.

(NASA Research Gives New Insights into How the Moon Got 'Inked', NASA)

Be happy, my dear Victor, replied Elizabeth; there is, I hope, nothing to distress you; and be assured that if a lively joy is not painted in my face, my heart is contented.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

"Little darling!—with her long curls and her blue eyes, and such a sweet colour as she has; just as if she were painted! Bessie, I could fancy a Welsh rabbit for supper."

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

All were painted blue, for in this country of the East blue was the favorite color.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

How could you think so much of a smear of pigments, when there was such a picture painted by the good God himself in the very room with you?

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It was painted black, and from the talk of the hunters of their poaching exploits I recognized it as a United States revenue cutter.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

The names of the occupants were painted at the bottom on the wall, but there was no such name as the Franco-Midland Hardware Company, Limited.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I viewed the town on my left hand, which looked like the painted scene of a city in a theatre.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)