 4 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
painted
adjective
1: represented in a painting; "as idle as a painted ship upon a
painted ocean"
2: coated with paint; "freshly painted lawn furniture" [ant: {unpainted}]
3: lacking substance or vitality as if produced by painting;
"in public he wore a painted smile"
4: having makeup applied; "brazen painted faces" [ant: {unpainted}]
5: 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}, {multicolour},
{multicolored}, {multicoloured}, {particolored}, {particoloured},
{piebald}, {pied}, {varicolored}, {varicoloured}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Painted \Paint"ed\, adjective
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.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Paint \Paint\ (p[=a]nt), verb (used with an object) [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.
Jezebel painted her face and tired her head. --2
Kings ix. 30.
2. Fig.: To color, stain, or tinge; to adorn or beautify with
colors; to diversify with colors.
Not painted with the crimson spots of blood. --Shak.
Cuckoo buds of yellow hue
Do paint the meadows with delight. --Shak.
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.
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.
Disloyal?
The word is too good to paint out her wickedness.
--Shak.
If folly grow romantic, I must paint it. --Pope.
Syn: To color; picture; depict; portray; delineate; sketch;
draw; describe.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
delineated \delineated\ adjective
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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