About The Word Painted
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Painted
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What's The Definition Of Painted?
[adj] 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"
[adj] lacking substance or vitality as if produced by painting; "in public he wore a painted smile" [adj] coated with paint; "freshly painted lawn furniture" [adj] having makeup applied; "brazen painted faces" [adj] represented in a painting; "as idle as a painted ship upon a painted ocean" Synonyms | Synonyms for Painted: artificial | colored | colorful | coloured | delineate | delineated | finished | in color(p) | made-up | motley | multicolor | multicolored | multicolour | multicoloured | particolored | particoloured | piebald | pied | represented | rouged | stained | unreal | varicolored | varicoloured | varnished | whitewashed Related Terms | Find terms related to Painted: See Also | Painted In Webster's Dictionary \Paint"ed\, a.
1. Covered or adorned with paint; portrayed in colors.
As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean.
--Coleridge.
2. (Nat. Hist.) Marked with bright colors; as, the painted
turtle; painted bunting.
{Painted beauty} (Zo["o]l.), 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} (Zo["o]l.), a bright-colored butterfly. See
{Thistle butterfly}.
{Painted turtle} (Zo["o]l.), a common American freshwater
tortoise ({Chrysemys picta}), having bright red and yellow
markings beneath.
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