Synonyms for painting
ˈpeɪn tɪŋpaint·ing

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1. painting, picturenoun

   graphic art consisting of an artistic composition made by applying paints to a surface

   "a small painting by Picasso"; "he bought the painting as an investment"; "his pictures hang in the Louvre"

   Synonyms:
   delineation, video, motion-picture show, scene, mental picture, pictorial matter, movie, moving-picture show, ikon, icon, pic, exposure, house painting, image, photograph, depiction, word-painting, characterization, characterisation, word picture, film, motion picture, photo, picture show, flick, moving picture, picture, impression

2. paintingnoun

   creating a picture with paints

   "he studied painting and sculpture for many years"

   Synonyms:
   house painting, picture

3. paintingnoun

   the act of applying paint to a surface

   "you can finish the job of painting faster with a roller than with a brush"

   Synonyms:
   house painting, picture

4. painting, house paintingnoun

   the occupation of a house painter

   "house painting was the only craft he knew"

   Synonyms:
   house painting, picture

Matched Categories

1. • Application
   • Artistic Creation
   • Fine Arts
   • Graphic Art

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1. paintingnoun

   Synonyms:
   picture (in colors)

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1. paintingnoun

   Associated words:
   easel, palette, grisaille, artist, art, atelier, studio

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1. List of paraphrases for "painting":

   paint, paintings, canvas, table, paints, painter, drawing, painted, beenpainting, picture, portrait

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1. Jim Zanfagna:

   The first portrait I painted was Jackie, i spent two months painting it. It was like spending time with her. There was joy and there was sorrow.

2. Edmond de Concourt:

   A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.

3. David Hockney:

   I loved the idea of painting this thing that lasts for two seconds; it takes me two weeks to paint this event that lasts for two seconds.

4. Kimberly Smith:

   They have an hour blocked off, and I grew up playing sports, and I played rugby in college and played for the U.S. team, and [therapists] said, ‘All right, well we’re going to do painting,’ and I don’t have any arts in me.

5. Constantin Stanislavski:

   We have as many planes of speech as does a painting planes of perspective which create perspective in a phrase. The most important word stands out most vividly defined in the very foreground of the sound plane. Less important words create a series of deeper planes.