Definitions for painterly

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painterly paint·er·ly

Spelling: [peyn-ter-lee]

IPA: /ˈpeɪn tər li/

Painterly is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 699 anagrams from letters in painterly (aeilnprty).

Definitions for painterly

adjective

1. of, relating to, or characteristic of a painter.
2. Fine Arts. characterized by qualities of color, stroke, or texture perceived as distinctive to the art of painting, especially the rendering of forms and images in terms of color or tonal relations rather than of contour or line.

Origin of painterly

First recorded in 1580-90; painter¹ + -ly

Examples for painterly

Whatever else anyone may say about him, he had probably the most painterly eye of any movie director.

Together, they're a portrait of Hopper—an assortment of memories and places organized around his cinematic and painterly eye.