Definitions for sculptured

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sculptured sculp·tured

Spelling: [skuhlp-cherd]

IPA: /ˈskʌlp tʃərd/

Sculptured is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 20 points.

You can make 575 anagrams from letters in sculptured (cdelprstuu).

Definitions for sculptured

noun

1. the art of carving, modeling, welding, or otherwise producing figurative or abstract works of art in three dimensions, as in relief, intaglio, or in the round.
2. such works of art collectively.
3. an individual piece of such work.

adjective

1. having a surface or shape molded, marked, carved, indented, etc., by or as if by sculpture:

verb (used with object)

1. to carve, model, weld, or otherwise produce (a piece of sculpture).
2. to produce a portrait or image of in this way; represent in sculpture.
3. Physical Geography. to change the form of (the land surface) by erosion.

verb (used without object)

1. to work as a sculptor.

Origin of sculptured

First recorded in 1700-10; sculpture + -ed²

Examples for sculptured

This ball has been molten by heat, chilled to a solid, and sculptured by water.

Rubbings taken from the sculptured slabs are reproduced here in full.

The sides of the gallery were covered with strange and sculptured forms.

Those marble mantel-pieces, sculptured in female figures, how massive!

Stuart, Mr John, and the sculptured stones in Scotland, 410.

The most animated and boldest compositions are sculptured in these reliefs.

This, with its sculptured slabs, has fallen into the rooms below.

Her face, shaded by a drapery of dove blue, was as fair as sculptured marble.

From this marble Phidias sculptured a statue of Vengeance, which was called Rhamnusia.

The sculptured decorations of all are for the most part intact and undisfigured.