unpainted

U1N1P3A1I1N1T1E1D2

adjective

Not painted.

“Near-synonym: paintless”

Opposite
UncommonScrabble 12

Meanings

adjectiveunpainted (not comparable)
  1. 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 […], →OCLC

    The 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 93

    A 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 309

    Synonyms: paintless

Synonyms & antonyms

adjectiveNot painted.

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More synonyms by meaning

adjectivenot having makeup on

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Opposite

adjectivenot having a coat of paint or badly in need of a fresh coat

Opposite

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

  1. Middle Englishunpeinted
  2. Englishunpainted

From Middle English unpeinted, on-poyntid, equivalent to un- + painted.

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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
APA

unpainted. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unpainted

MLA

“unpainted.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unpainted. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “unpainted,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unpainted.

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