painted
coated with paint
How often you will meet it
Rank 2,060 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 8,652 times across 175,160 chapters — 0.004% of every word in the library.
What it means
adjective
- coated with paint freshly painted lawn furniture
- lacking substance or vitality as if produced by painting in public he wore a painted smile
- having makeup applied brazen painted faces
- having sections or patches colored differently and usually brightly also: motley, calico, multicolor, multi-color, multicolour, multi-colour a jester dressed in motleythe painted desert
painted in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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I wonder whether those painted floors in the green room were real oak.
Actions and reactions · Rudyard Kipling · Chapter 1
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Leave your painted comforts; I 'll make Italian cut-works in their guts If ever I return.
The White Devil · John Webster · Chapter 1
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The workshops were all deserted; and people strolled at random, stupor or terror painted on their countenance.
Other People's Money · Emile Gaboriau · Chapter 1
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The trees on the opposite shore looked as if they had been painted from the topmost twig to the root.
The Soul of a Child · Edwin Björkman · Chapter 1
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Methought I heard a butterfly Say to a labouring bee: “Thou hast no colours of the sky On painted wings like me.”
Poems Every Child Should Know · Mary E. (Mary Elizabeth) [Editor] Burt · Chapter 1