Meanings
- not comparableNot painted.
Near-synonym: paintless
3 more examples
Perhaps the surface of the red brick, long unpainted, had scaled off a little more here and there.
1900, Charles W[addell] Chesnutt, chapter I, in The House Behind the Cedars, Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Houghton, Mifflin and Company […], →OCLCThe new cars incorporate many features first introduced in the 1938 tube stock, but major changes include the use of rubber for the bogie bolster and axlebox suspension, fluorescent lighting, and the panelling of the cars in unpainted aluminium alloy.
1960 February, “The first of London's new Piccadilly Line trains is delivered”, in Trains Illustrated, page 93A few unreliable-looking boats were beached there, unpainted boats built largely of gray driftwood, or so it seemed to me.
1987, Gene Wolfe, chapter LI, in The Urth of the New Sun, 1st US edition, New York: Tor Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 309Synonyms: paintless
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveNot painted.
More synonyms by meaning
adjectivenot having a coat of paint or badly in need of a fresh coat
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Middle Englishunpeinted
- Englishunpainted
From Middle English unpeinted, on-poyntid, equivalent to un- + painted.
More words from Middle English
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Danish umalet
- umaletnot painted
Greek αζωγράφιστος
- αζωγράφιστος (azográfistos)not painted
Norwegian Bokmål umalt
- umaltnot painted
Swedish omålad
- omåladnot painted
Turkish boyasız
- boyasıznot painted
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Cite this entry
unpainted. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unpainted
“unpainted.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unpainted. Accessed November 2, 2026.
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