UNPAINTED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does unpainted mean? 

• UNPAINTED (adjective)
  The adjective UNPAINTED has 2 senses:

1. not having makeup on

2. not having a coat of paint or badly in need of a fresh coat

  Familiarity information: UNPAINTED used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNPAINTED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Not having makeup on

Context example:

her sweet unpainted face

Similar:

unrouged (not wearing rouge)

Antonym:

painted (having makeup applied)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Not having a coat of paint or badly in need of a fresh coat

Context example:

unpainted furniture

Similar:

bare; unfinished (lacking a surface finish such as paint)

unoiled (not having oil rubbed into the surface)

unstained; unvarnished (not having a coating of stain or varnish)

Also:

unfinished (not brought to the desired final state)

Antonym:

painted (coated with paint)

 Context examples 

There are many unpainted buildings in tropical developing countries and such buildings are more prone to the problem.

(Smoother walls healthier for lungs, SciDev.Net)

The walls of bare unpainted planks were studded here and there with great wooden pins, placed at irregular intervals and heights, from which hung over-tunics, wallets, whips, bridles, and saddles.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The first was a misshapen, squalid man with cruel, cunning eyes and a shock of tangled red hair, bearing in his hands a small unpainted cross, which he held high so that all men might see it.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)