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painterless

painterless adjective: without a painter (artist working with paint).

Adjective

painterless (not comparable)

  1. Without a painter (artist working with paint).
    • In Eden one can imagine no need for painting, and one glimpses its painterless, visually sufficient world in the blank canvas […]1984, Michael Edwards, Towards a Christian poetics
    • It was painterless painting, done by a remote-controlled model car rigged with a can of quick-drying paint.1994, Bruce Altshuler, The avant-garde in exhibition: new art in the 20th century

Origin of painterless

From painter + -less.

Questions about painterless

What does painterless mean?
Painterless means without a painter (artist working with paint).
What part of speech is painterless?
Painterless is an adjective.

Words near painterless in the dictionary

  1. painter-stainers
  2. painteress
  3. painteresses
  4. painteries
  5. painterish
  6. painterless
  7. painterlike
  8. painterliness
  9. painterly
  10. painters
  11. paintership

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