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penciled

penciled

1.3
Written or drawn with a tool that leaves grey marks on paper
  • adjective
  • /ˈpɛnsl̩d/
  • US
translation icon : dibujado a lápiz
  • The artist created a beautiful penciled sketch of the landscape.

Examples

  • The margin of the book was filled with penciled comments and doodles.

  • She prefers to make penciled notes in her journal.

  • She left a penciled note on the kitchen table for her roommate.

  • The architect presented a penciled outline of the new building.

  • She left a penciled note on the kitchen table for her roommate.

  • The architect presented a penciled outline of the new building.

  • The margin of the book was filled with penciled comments and doodles.

Antonyms

permanent
650 3.2

Continuing for a long time and unlikely to change

How Permanent

engraved
4.3
penciled
  • US
1.3

Surface Forms

penciled positive
pencilled positive

Morphology

penciled = pencil (transparent) = pencil + ed

The adjective is a regular past-participle/adjectival formation from the verb 'pencil' using the productive suffix '-ed', so the meaning is directly derived.

Etymology

Penciled comes from pencil, which comes from an old word penicillus meaning 'little tail', because early pencils were small brushes with a tail of hair. The name later came to mean the wooden stick with dark 'lead' we use to write and draw, so penciled means 'written or drawn with a pencil'.