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say it: PAYN-tid
painted is an adjective meaning "coated with paint". It carries 4 recorded senses.
lacking substance or vitality as if produced by painting
“in public he wore a painted smile”
having sections or patches colored differently and usually brightly
“a jester dressed in motley”
“the painted desert”
“a particolored dress”
“a piebald horse”
“pied daisies”
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for painted come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.