paint

verb

Synonyms and Antonyms of PAINT

to give a representation or account of in words <the description painted a perfect image of the sun setting over the ocean>

Synonyms delineate, depict, draw, image, limn, paint, picture, portray, render, set out, sketch

Near Antonyms color, distort, falsify, garble, misdescribe, misrepresent, misstate, pervert, twist, warp

to give color or a different color to <I've decided to paint the bathroom walls purple>

Synonyms bepaint [archaic], dye, paint, pigment, stain, tincture, tinge, tint

Related Words brighten, lighten; darken, embrown, tone (down); checker, dapple, daub, fleck, marble, mottle, pattern, polychrome, speck, speckle, streak, striate, stripe, variegate

Near Antonyms blanch, bleach, whiten

Antonyms decolorize

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