paintable

1. 1.

   lending itself to being painted

   “a highly paintable landscape”

   “made of sturdy eminently paintable wood”

   Antonymsunpaintable

Questions about paintable

What does paintable mean?

paintable means "lending itself to being painted".

How many syllables are in paintable?

paintable has 3 syllables and divides as pain-ta-ble under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is the opposite of paintable?

The recorded antonyms are unpaintable.

Is paintable a common word?

paintable 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.