paintable

English

Etymology

paint + -able

Adjective

paintable (comparative more paintable, superlative most paintable)

  1. That can be painted; to which a coating of paint can be applied.
  2. Able or suitable to be painted (rendered by an artist in paint).
    • 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 29:
      The grunt indicated doubt. Not so easy to paint, these paintable subjects.

Antonyms

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