painted — English Dictionary

Adjective

1. Coated with paint.

   Usage

   • not-comparable

   Examples

   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.

2. Depicted in paint.

   Usage

   • not-comparable

   Examples

   Sometimes the spatters extend a significant distance above other painted figures.

3. Colorful, as if painted.

   Usage

   • not-comparable

   Examples

   the painted desert

   painted turtle

4. Wearing makeup.

   Usage

   • not-comparable

   Examples

   GET OFF THE STREET, YOU PAINTED JEZEBEL.

5. Superficial or cosmetic, without underlying depth of feeling.

   Usage

   • Figurative
   • not-comparable

   Examples

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   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.

Adjective

1. coated with paint

   Antonyms

   unpainted

   Examples

   freshly painted lawn furniture

2. lacking substance or vitality as if produced by painting

   Examples

   in public he wore a painted smile

3. having makeup applied

   Antonyms

   unpainted

   Examples

   brazen painted faces

4. having sections or patches colored differently and usually brightly

   Synonyms

   motleycalicomulticolormulti-colormulticolourmulti-colourmulticoloredmulti-coloredmulticolouredmulti-colouredparticoloredparticolouredpiebaldpiedvaricoloredvaricoloured

   Examples

   a jester dressed in motley

   the painted desert

   More examples (3)

   a particolored dress

   a piebald horse

   pied daisies