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Definitions for: 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"
Webster (1913) Definition: 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.
Synonyms: 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
Antonyms: unpainted
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