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unpainted

unpainted adjective: not painted.

Adjective

unpainted (not comparable)

  1. Not painted.
    • Near-synonym: paintless
    • Perhaps the surface of the red brick, long unpainted, had scaled off a little more here and there.1900, Charles W[addell] Chesnutt, chapter I, in The House Behind the Cedars, Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Houghton, Mifflin and Company […], →OCLC
    Synonyms:
    paintless

Examples of unpainted in a sentence

  • The inside surface of the cup is unpainted.
  • Traditionally the Foo dogs were somewhat austere, unpainted stone sculptures meant to frighten away evil spirits.
  • He wanted to keep shooting till the scrabbly old unpainted building came creaking and crashing down.

All 11 example sentences with unpainted

Synonyms of unpainted

Origin of unpainted

From Middle English unpeinted, on-poyntid, equivalent to un- + painted.

Words formed from unpainted

Questions about unpainted

What does unpainted mean?
Unpainted means not painted.
What part of speech is unpainted?
Unpainted is an adjective.

Words near unpainted in the dictionary

  1. unpaint
  2. unpaintability
  3. unpaintable
  4. unpaintableness
  5. unpaintably
  6. unpainted
  7. unpaintedness
  8. unpainterly
  9. unpainting
  10. unpaints
  11. unpair

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