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negative paintings

negative paintings is the plural of negative painting.

Meaning of negative painting

Noun

negative painting (countable and uncountable, plural negative paintings)

  1. (uncountable) The technique of painting a dark background so that the remaining lighter color forms the main design.
  2. (countable) An artwork produced by this technique.

Questions about negative paintings

What is negative paintings the plural of?
Negative paintings is the plural of negative painting.

Words near negative paintings in the dictionary

  1. negative Nellies
  2. negative Nelly
  3. negative numbers
  4. negative option
  5. negative painting
  6. negative paintings
  7. negative parliamentarism
  8. negative pickup
  9. negative pickups
  10. negative pion
  11. negative pledge

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Adapted from Wiktionary: negative paintings (page history and authors); negative painting (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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