painterly

1. 1.

   having qualities unique to the art of painting

   Similaraesthetic

   fine arts

Questions about painterly

What does painterly mean?

painterly means "having qualities unique to the art of painting".

How many syllables are in painterly?

painterly has 3 syllables: pain-ter-ly. The stress falls on "pain". In IPA it is /ˈpeɪntɚli/.

Is painterly a common word?

painterly 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.