Synonyms for painting
ˈpeɪn tɪŋpainting

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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, painting, 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, painting

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. Nick Leeper:

   In the Vascular Medicine journal paper, we’re seeing a trend towards worse levels of vascular biomarkers in people on the PPIs, all together, we’re painting a picture that this may be associated with risk, and we want to validate that moving forward.

2. Jessica Martin:

   One of my missions in the art program for the school is to introduce kids to the broadest approach to creative practice as possible, yes, we're doing painting and drawing, but it's important that these kids also are being exposed to art by artists who are pushing definitions of what art is and the role it plays in our society.

3. Adamo Macri:

   Most people don't like to be confronted with an actual fact-of-life because it's difficult to metabolize. A painting of a bowl of fruit is much easier. It's for the same reason why we don't like going to the doctor. The diagnosis and x-rays are too honest. This is what creates the perception that contemporary art is shocking or suspicious.”

4. Sally Cohen:

   When Liz was first diagnosed, I remember she said to [her childhood friends]— she has such a feisty personality— ‘I want to know when you’re mad at your husbands, what your kids did right, wrong, what color you’re painting your house,’ [She] wanted our conversations to be normal … she didn’t want people to shy away.

5. Jake Schmidt:

   China is not going to be the recipient of U.S. climate financing, which is how some of our friends on the Hill are painting it, this is a better narrative.