painting

Main Entry:
painting [peyn-ting]
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: work of art
Synonyms: abstract design, art, art work, canvas, cityscape, composition, depiction, landscape, likeness, mural, oil painting, picture, portrait, portrayal, representation, seascape, sketch, water color
Main Entry: painting
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: artwork
Synonyms: art, canvas, composition, design, drawing, mural, oil, picture, portrait, seascape, watercolor
Main Entry: paint
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: apply colored tint, often to make design
Synonyms: brush, catch a likeness, coat, color, compose, cover, cover up, daub, decorate, delineate, depict, design, draft, draw, dye, figure, fresco, gloss over, limn, ornament, outline, picture, portray, put on coats, represent, shade, sketch, slap on, slather, stipple, swab, tint, touch up, wash
Antonyms: strip
Related Words
Main Entry: painting
Part of Speech: noun1, noun2, noun
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Adjectives:
Byzantine, Hellenistic, Italianate, Kamakura, Ming, abstract, architectonic, colorfield, eclectic, elydoric, encaustic, farded, figurative, hard, hieratic, high, low, low in tone, monochromatic, monumental, nonobjective, painterly, painting, pastoral, plein, pre, pre, representational, sfumato, stippled, tinctorial
Concept Thesaurus
Concept: Painting.
Category: 1. Natural Means
Synonyms:
-nouns
painting; depicting; drawing; design; perspective, sciagraphy, skiagraphy; chiaroscuro (light) composition; treatment., historical painting, portrait painting, miniature painting; landscape painting, marine painting; still life, flower painting, scene painting; scenography., school, style; the grand style, high art, genre, portraiture; ornamental art., monochrome, polychrome; grisaille., pallet, palette; easel; brush, pencil, stump; black lead, charcoal, crayons, chalk, pastel; paint (coloring matter); watercolor, body color, oil color; oils, oil paint; varnish, priming; gouache, tempera, distemper, fresco, water glass; enamel; encaustic painting; mosaic; tapestry., photography, heliography, color photography; sun painting., picture, painting, piece, tableau, canvas; oil painting; fresco, cartoon; easel picture, cabinet picture, draught, draft; pencil drawing, water color drawing, etching, charcoal, pen-and-ink; sketch, outline, study., photograph, color photograph, black-and-white photograph, holograph, heliograph; daguerreotype, talbotype, calotype, heliotype., portrait (representation); whole length, full length, half length; kitcat, head; miniature; shade, silhouette; profile., landscape, seapiece; view, scene, prospect; panorama, diorama; still life., picture gallery, exhibit; studio, atelier; pinacotheca.
-verbs
paint, design, limn draw, sketch, pencil, scratch, shade, stipple, hatch, dash off, chalk out, square up; color, dead color, wash, varnish; draw in pencil; paint in oils; stencil; depict (represent).
-adjectives
painted; pictorial, graphic, picturesque., pencil, oil, etc.
-adverbs
in pencil, etc.
-phrases
fecit, delineavit; mutum est pictura poema.
Browse Concept Index »
Main Entry: art
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: creation meant to communicate or appeal to senses or mind
Synonyms: abstraction, carving, description, design, illustration, imitation, modeling, molding, painting, pictorialization, portrayal, representation, sculpting, shaping, simulation, sketching, symbolization
Antonyms: science
Main Entry: coat
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: covering
Synonyms: bark, coating, crust, finish, glaze, gloss, lacquer, lamination, layer, overlay, painting, plaster, priming, roughcast, set, tinge, varnish, wash, whitewashing
Notes: skin is the general term for an animal's outer covering; the layer of fur, hair, or wool is the coat; hide is the tough skin of certain large animals that is tanned and made into leather; pelt is untanned skin of fur-bearing animals
Main Entry: design
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: artful conception
Synonyms: arrangement, configuration, construction, depiction, device, doodle, drawing, figure, form, illustration, motif, motive, organization, painting, pattern, picture, portrait, shape, sketch, style
Main Entry: drawing
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: illustration
Synonyms: cartoon, commercial art, comp, delineation, depiction, design, doodle, etching, graphics, layout, likeness, outline, painting, picture, portrayal, representation, sketch, storyboard, study, tracing, work of art
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