Skip to main content
Glite Dictionary
🏠 Covered with plaster 🍻 Very drunk 💇 Hair flat and sticky
plastered

plastered

3.7
A wall covered with a smooth layer of plaster ready for painting
  • adjective
  • /ˈplæstərd/
translation icon : enlucido
  • The walls were plastered to create a smooth surface for painting.

It's like a two-story kind of a dope and not Adobe, but you know, plastered side home.

Examples

  • So that's all been done, Lots of electrical works been done and obviously the walls have had their dry lining, their plaster board, they've been plastered.

  • So that is going to be plastered quite soon and then this will be our en suite.

  • Now it is plastered, decorated lights are in as well.

  • Our walls, once decorated with family photos, are now plastered with Trump flags.

  • After the renovations, the newly plastered walls looked fresh and ready for decoration.

  • They applied a plastered finish to the walls before adding any artwork.

Antonyms

bare
217 2.2

Not covered or protected, showing the plain surface

How Smooth

polished
26 2.1
plastered
3.7
patched
3.7

Surface Forms

plastered positive

Morphology

plastered = plaster (transparent) = plaster + ed

Standard past-participle/adjectival formation from the verb 'plaster' meaning to cover a surface with plaster; the sense 'covered with plaster' is directly derivable.

Etymology

Plastered comes from the word plaster, a sticky paste people used to 'spread' on walls and even on wounds long ago. So a plastered wall is one that is 'covered' with a smooth layer ready for painting.