painted

Adjective

Synonyms: motley calico multicolor multi-color multicolour multi-colour multicolored multi-colored multicoloured multi-coloured particolored particoloured

WordNet 3.0

Adjective (4)

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“a jester dressed in motley”“the painted desert”“a particolored dress”“a piebald horse”“pied daisies”Synonyms: motley calico multicolor multi-color multicolour multi-colour multicolored multi-colored multicoloured multi-coloured particolored particoloured piebald pied varicolored varicoloured

Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

Paint \Paint\ (p[=a]nt), v. t. [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. [1913 Webster]

Jezebel painted her face and tired her head.— 2 Kings ix. 30.[1913 Webster]

2.Fig.: To color, stain, or tinge; to adorn or beautify with colors; to diversify with colors. [1913 Webster]

Not painted with the crimson spots of blood.— Shak.[1913 Webster]

Cuckoo buds of yellow hue Do paint the meadows with delight.— Shak.[1913 Webster]

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. [1913 Webster]

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. [1913 Webster]

Disloyal? The word is too good to paint out her wickedness.— Shak.[1913 Webster]

If folly grow romantic, I must paint it.— Pope.[1913 Webster]

Syn: To color; picture; depict; portray; delineate; sketch; draw; describe. [1913 Webster]

Painted \Paint"ed\, a.

1.Covered or adorned with paint; portrayed in colors. [1913 Webster]

As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean.— Coleridge.[1913 Webster]

2.(Nat. Hist.) Marked with bright colors; as, the painted turtle; painted bunting. [1913 Webster]

Painted beauty (Zool.), 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 (Zool.), a bright-colored butterfly. See Thistle butterfly.

Painted turtle (Zool.), a common American freshwater tortoise (Chrysemys picta), having bright red and yellow markings beneath. [1913 Webster]

delineated \delineated\ adj.

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]