pointillistic
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- adjective
- /ˌpɔɪn.tɪˈlɪs.tɪk/
- Specialized
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puntillista
- The artist used a pointillistic technique, carefully placing tiny dots of color to create a vibrant landscape.
So in some parts of the recording, it's very pointillistic.
- So in some parts of the recording, it's very pointillistic.
- So I like stipple brushes for this in particular because they give a almost pointillistic just gives you something nice and soft that you can continue to work with.
Examples
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Nothing seemed gratuitously random, however, with the sound of a traditional 18th-century hymn always lurking beneath the pointillistic surface.
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So I like stipple brushes for this in particular because they give a almost pointillistic just gives you something nice and soft that you can continue to work with.
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As she drove, the rain beat against the windshield, fracturing space and turning the streets ahead into surreal pointillistic paintings.
Fiction book (1999) -
Don't you think the old-fashioned plot potential of an integral Dyson Sphere has been completely superseded by the pointillistic Dyson Cloud concept?
Fiction book (2000) -
I stare at the Kodachrome cork board—youthful, smiling faces, pointillistic images of malevolent cellular dots dispersed everywhere.
Fiction book (1996) -
Her painting was pointillistic, made up of countless small dots that formed a beautiful image when viewed from afar.
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The pointillistic style of the artwork made it look almost like a mosaic, composed entirely of individual points.
Synonyms
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Made from many small dots of color that form a picture
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Having a pattern of small dots
A surface covered with many small dots, often made by paint or ink
Having small dots on it
How Pointillistic
Surface Forms
Morphology
pointillistic = pointillism (semi-transparent) = pointillism + ic
The adjective is transparently formed from the specialized noun 'pointillism' with the regular adjectival suffix '-ic', but the base term itself is a specialized loan and not compositionally obvious to many learners.
Etymology
Pointillistic comes from point, meaning 'dot' or 'small spot', and from the art name pointillism, where artists place many tiny dots to make a full picture. So something pointillistic is made of many separate little points that together create the whole image or effect.