impasto

1. 1.

   painting that applies the pigment thickly so that brush or palette knife marks are visible

   Broaderpainting

Other forms of impasto

plural

impastoes·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about impasto

What does impasto mean?

impasto means "painting that applies the pigment thickly so that brush or palette knife marks are visible".

How many syllables are in impasto?

impasto has 3 syllables: im-pa-sto. The stress falls on "im".

Is impasto a common word?

impasto is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.