'Painted' definitions:

Definition of 'painted'

(from WordNet)
adjective
Coated with paint; "freshly painted lawn furniture" [ant: unpainted]
adjective
Lacking substance or vitality as if produced by painting; "in public he wore a painted smile"
adjective
Having makeup applied; "brazen painted faces" [ant: unpainted]
adjective
Having sections or patches colored differently and usually brightly; "a jester dressed in motley"; "the painted desert"; "a particolored dress"; "a piebald horse"; "pied daisies" [syn: motley, calico, multicolor, multi-color, multicolour, multi-colour, multicolored, multi- colored, multicoloured, multi-coloured, painted, particolored, particoloured, piebald, pied, varicolored, varicoloured]

Definition of 'Painted'

From: GCIDE
  • Paint \Paint\ (p[=a]nt), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Painted; p. pr. & vb. n. Painting.] [OE. peinten, fr. F. peint, p. p. of peindre to paint, fr. L. pingere, pictum; cf. Gr. poiki`los many-colored, Skr. pi[,c] to adorn. Cf. Depict, Picture, Pigment, Pint.]
  • 1. To cover with coloring matter; to apply paint to; as, to paint a house, a signboard, etc. [1913 Webster]
  • Jezebel painted her face and tired her head. --2 Kings ix. 30. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. Fig.: To color, stain, or tinge; to adorn or beautify with colors; to diversify with colors. [1913 Webster]
  • Not painted with the crimson spots of blood. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • Cuckoo buds of yellow hue Do paint the meadows with delight. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. To form in colors a figure or likeness of on a flat surface, as upon canvas; to represent by means of colors or hues; to exhibit in a tinted image; to portray with paints; as, to paint a portrait or a landscape. [1913 Webster]
  • 4. Fig.: To represent or exhibit to the mind; to describe vividly; to delineate; to image; to depict; as, to paint a political opponent as a traitor. [1913 Webster]
  • Disloyal? The word is too good to paint out her wickedness. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • If folly grow romantic, I must paint it. --Pope. [1913 Webster]
  • Syn: To color; picture; depict; portray; delineate; sketch; draw; describe. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Painted'

From: GCIDE
  • Painted \Paint"ed\, a.
  • 1. Covered or adorned with paint; portrayed in colors. [1913 Webster]
  • As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean. --Coleridge. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. (Nat. Hist.) Marked with bright colors; as, the painted turtle; painted bunting. [1913 Webster]
  • Painted beauty (Zool.), a handsome American butterfly (Vanessa Huntera), having a variety of bright colors,
  • Painted cup (Bot.), any plant of an American genus of herbs (Castilleia) in which the bracts are usually bright-colored and more showy than the flowers. Castilleia coccinea has brilliantly scarlet bracts, and is common in meadows.
  • Painted finch. See Nonpareil.
  • Painted lady (Zool.), a bright-colored butterfly. See Thistle butterfly.
  • Painted turtle (Zool.), a common American freshwater tortoise (Chrysemys picta), having bright red and yellow markings beneath. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'painted'

From: GCIDE
  • delineated \delineated\ adj.
  • 1. represented accurately or precisely. [Narrower terms: diagrammatic, diagrammatical; drawn; painted] [WordNet 1.5]
  • 2. described in words with sharpness and detail or with vivid imagery. Opposite of undelineated.
  • Syn: represented, delineate. [WordNet 1.5 +PJC]

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