paintless

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adjective

Without paint: unpainted (of an object), not involving paint (of a finishing process), or whose paint has worn off (of an object).

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Meanings

adjectivepaintless (not comparable)
  1. not comparableWithout paint: unpainted (of an object), not involving paint (of a finishing process), or whose paint has worn off (of an object).

    Residences of a development named Hilltop Place mimic wooden farmhouses with barns attached, painted gray to look paintless but remain tidy.

    2000, Donald Hall, Here at Eagle Pond
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    In 1919, demobilisation specials from Purfleet, Essex, to the North, usually made up of nondescript, almost paintless or grey stock which had seen long wartime service, chalked with slogans, were worked through by way of Bromley and the North London line […].

    1950 April, R. A. H. Weight, “They Passed by My Window”, in Railway Magazine, pages 258-259

Synonyms & antonyms

Also see
unpainted

Origin

From paint + -less.

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