stained
- adjective
- /steɪnd/
- Stained glass windows portrayed frontier trades: Indians bartering skins of sea otter, Chinese working lime, and, in this town, master builders erecting Victorian mansions.
- stained glass window
- stained glass
Is everything going to be stained a little pink?
- Is everything going to be stained a little pink?
- I'm going to wear this stained, smelly shirt to the gym.
- You can tell because their lips are stained with the purple.
- That means that it will stay stained on your lip and be long wearing.
- It is called the Church of the Blood Stained Pews.
- It's new, you got to check it out called ink stained Wretches.
- There was one person running the shop, and it was stained and rusted.
- I think maybe not stained, but up.
Examples
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You can tell because their lips are stained with the purple.
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She noticed that the tablecloth had become stained after the family dinner.
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Is everything going to be stained a little pink?
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That means that it will stay stained on your lip and be long wearing.
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So that is your lips kind of stained with the colour.
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That's the stained look that we're going for, the coffee stained.
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There was one person running the shop, and it was stained and rusted.
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I fake tan last night and my fake tan has like stained my spots, which is good.
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Stained dresses, or shirts that didn't fit.
Fiction book (1990) -
Stained clothes removed, our bodies resurface without ceremony, lay themselves back down on beds as if sadness had weight.
Fiction book (2000)
Synonyms
Cloth or hair that someone colored on purpose
Covered with spots or patches of different colors
Having patches or streaks of different colors
Wet and marked from crying, often on cheeks or a pillow
Not clean because it has mud or grease on it
A thing that has lost its color, often with stains
Dirty or marked from traveling
Having a yellow-brown color like dry earth used as paint
Marked with spots or stains, for example on cloth
Marked with irregular spots of a different color
Having long thin lines or marks on a surface
Marked with small drops of liquid like paint or mud
Antonyms
Compounds
A window made of small colored glass pieces that makes colored light, often in churches
How Stained
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word stained comes from the old word stain, which meant a 'mark' or 'spot', like a drop of wine on a shirt. So when something is stained, it has a visible mark or colour that is hard to remove.