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fingerpainting

fingerpainting is the present participle and gerund of fingerpaint.

Meaning of fingerpaint

Noun

fingerpaint (countable and uncountable, plural fingerpaints)

  1. A form of paint designed to be applied using the fingers, especially by children.

Noun

fingerpainting (plural fingerpaintings)

  1. A painting made with fingerpaint.
    • When redecorating offices for our clients Richard and Stephanie, we spied their daughter's stunning black and white photographs, as well as her fingerpaintings from kindergarten.2011, Katharine Kaye McMillan, Patricia Hart McMillan, Home Decorating For Dummies

Forms of fingerpainting

pluralfingerpaintings

Questions about fingerpainting

What does fingerpainting mean?
Fingerpainting means a painting made with fingerpaint.
What is fingerpainting the present participle and gerund of?
Fingerpainting is the present participle and gerund of fingerpaint.
What part of speech is fingerpainting?
Fingerpainting is a noun.
What is the plural of fingerpainting?
The plural of fingerpainting is fingerpaintings.

Words near fingerpainting in the dictionary

  1. fingerpads
  2. fingerpaint
  3. fingerpainted
  4. fingerpainter
  5. fingerpainters
  6. fingerpainting
  7. fingerpaintings
  8. fingerpaints
  9. fingerpick
  10. fingerpicked
  11. fingerpicking

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Adapted from Wiktionary: fingerpainting (page history and authors); fingerpaint (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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