paintless
- adjective
- /ˈpeɪntləs/
:
sin pintura
- And on rises of ground, or tucked into folds, were the gray, paintless buildings of the farmsteads, connected to one another by lanes and paths.
Examples
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The house was old and weathered, nearly paintless; the upstairs windows looked down blankly.
Fiction book (1998) -
His mother kept his little girl in a paintless house downstate near the canebrakes.
Fiction book (1997) -
At one, the corroded pumps still stood, nearly paintless, sinking into cracked cement.
Fiction book (1995) -
When Fournet and DJ arrived at the paintless cottage on Grand Trianon Street where she had lived, they found it overflowing with people bringing food and comfort to her mother.
Fiction book (2001) -
Please! A carved ivory chess set missing only a few pieces, a magnifying glass, a beautifully carved, now paintless wooden mallard decoy, and an intermittently functioning battery-operated radio.
Fiction book (1997) -
The abandoned building sat empty, its walls paintless and covered in dust.
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He painted the door of the paintless shed to make it stand out in the yard.
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The paintless fence looked weathered and in need of a fresh coat of paint.
Synonyms
217
2.2
Not covered or protected, showing the plain surface
3
2.2
A thing with no coloured layer on the surface that shows the natural material
Antonyms
How Painted
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Paintless comes from paint and the ending -less, where paint is what you put on wood or walls and -less means 'without', just like in hopeless. So paintless simply means 'without paint' and describes something that has no painted surface.