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Painted   /pˈeɪntəd/  /pˈeɪntɪd/  /pˈeɪnəd/  /pˈeɪnɪd/   Listen
Painted

adjective
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.  Synonyms: calico, motley, multi-color, multi-colored, multi-colour, multi-coloured, multicolor, multicolored, multicolour, multicoloured, particolored, particoloured, piebald, pied, varicolored, varicoloured.  "The painted desert" , "A particolored dress" , "A piebald horse" , "Pied daisies"



Paint

verb
(past & past part. painted; pres. part. painting)
1.
Make a painting.  "He painted a painting of the garden"
2.
Apply paint to; coat with paint.
3.
Make a painting of.
4.
Apply a liquid to; e.g., paint the gutters with linseed oil.



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"Painted" Quotes from Famous Books



... question in a velvet bonnet and plain linen collar." "A large lady wore a green cashmere dress with pink ribbons in her hair;" then there was "a slim lady with tulle ruffles, velvet sacque and silk skirt." Of one it was said: "Her face, though real feminine in shape, was painted all over with business till it looked like a man's, and her hair was shingled and brushed in little banglets." "Miss Anthony," so the report said, "wore a blue barbe trimmed in lace," while Mrs. Stanton "was attired in a black silk dress with a white handkerchief around her throat." One ...
— The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV • Various

... from that rainbow-painted cobweb, and at last the man saw and understood. He gave an exclamation of wonder, and the girl who loved him raised her head once more, and the two looked each into the other's eyes for a long time. They fell into hushed ...
— Jason • Justus Miles Forman

... magnificent, and hovels outlast cathedrals," went on the madman. "Why should it not make lamp-posts fairer than Greek lamps; and an omnibus-ride like a painted ship? The touch of it is the ...
— The Napoleon of Notting Hill • Gilbert K. Chesterton

... farther with his cross-examination; to use a railway phrase, he was "shunted." Another asked if animals would not be very much frightened by the engine passing at night, especially by the glare of the red-hot chimney? "But how would they know that it wasn't painted?" said the witness. ...
— Ten Englishmen of the Nineteenth Century • James Richard Joy

... moth-eaten green cloth. The yellowish-white walls were only visible, as a sort of grill-work, between rows of canvases, many of them unframed. There were hundreds of paintings, all badly done, and yet interesting pictures painted for the perpetuation of the glories of the family, executed by old Italian and Spanish artists who chanced to be passing through Majorca. A traditional charm seemed to emanate from the portraits. Here was the history of the Mediterranean, traced by crude and ingenuous ...
— The Dead Command - From the Spanish Los Muertos Mandan • Vicente Blasco Ibanez


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