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pencilled

pencilled is the simple past and past participle of pencil.

Adjective

pencilled (not comparable)

  1. Written or marked with a pencil.
  2. Having pencils of rays; radiated.
  3. Marked with fine lines, as if with a pencil.

Meaning of pencil

Verb

pencil (third-person singular simple present pencils, present participle (US) penciling or (UK) pencilling, simple past and past participle (US) penciled or (UK) pencilled)

  1. (transitive) To write (something) using a pencil.
    • I penciled (BrE: pencilled) a brief reminder in my notebook.
  2. (transitive) To mark with, or as if with, a pencil.
    • It pencilled each flower with rich and variegated hues, and threw over its exuberant foliage a vesture of emerald green.1852, The Ark, and Odd Fellows' Western Magazine

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Words formed from pencilled

Phrases with pencilled

Questions about pencilled

What does pencilled mean?
Pencilled means written or marked with a pencil.
What is pencilled the simple past and past participle of?
Pencilled is the simple past and past participle of pencil.
What part of speech is pencilled?
Pencilled is an adjective.

Words near pencilled in the dictionary

  1. penciling in
  2. penciling out
  3. pencilings
  4. pencill
  5. pencillate
  6. pencilled
  7. pencilled in
  8. pencilled out
  9. penciller
  10. pencillers
  11. pencilless

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pencilled (page history and authors); pencil (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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