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painterly

adj

Etymology

From painter + -ly.

  1. inherited from paynter
  2. suffixed as painterly — “painter + ly”

Definitions

  1. Characteristic of a painter or paintings.

  2. Having clear brush-strokes.

The neighborhood

  • antonymlinearantonym(s) of “having clear brush-strokes”
  • antonymplasticantonym(s) of “having clear brush-strokes”

Derived

painterliness, postpainterly, unpainterly

Vish — recursive loop

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA