Meanings
- not comparableThat creates visual images verbally.
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These vessels are handsome to look at, good sailers, and admirable sea-boats, and will make long voyages with perfect safety, traversing the whole Archipelago from New Guinea to Singapore in seas which, as every one who has sailed much in them can testify, are not so smooth and tempest-free as word-painting travellers love to represent them.
1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume II, London: Macmillan and Co., page 184
Synonyms & antonyms
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word-painting. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/word-painting
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