Painterly

Definition: Painterly

Painterly

Adjective

1. (fine arts) having qualities unique to the art of painting.

Note: Painterly \Paint"er*ly\, adjective. Like painter's work. [obsolete]. (Websters 1913)

Domain	Title
Books	A Painterly Approach (reference) Flowers With a Painterly Touch (reference) Markers Wet & Wild/Tricks and Techniques for Achieving Spped, Splash, and Painterly Effect (reference) Painterly Abstraction in Modernist American Poetry: The Contemporaneity of Modernism (Literature & Philosophy) (reference) Pilgrim, exile, sorcerer : the painterly evolution of Jehangir Sabavala (reference) (more book examples)
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Painterly art makes strong use of of the many visual effects produced by paint on canvas, and also of the artist's experience in painting.

Of course, painterly refers, basically to paint, but some forms of sculpture make such use of surface texture and stroke that they could almost be called painterly. SeeWood as a medium, Green new art Photography can also be described as painterly.

"Painterly" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Painterly" is used about 39 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	100%	39	55,036

Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "painterly": non-painterly.
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Language		Translations for "painterly"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Pig Latin		ainterlypay.(various references)
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Misspellings
	"Painterly" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Paintal, printerly. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "painterly" (pronounced pā"nterlē or pā"nerlē)
4	-t er l ē	bitterly, easterly, masterly, northeasterly, northwesterly, quarterly, utterly, westerly.
3	-er l ē	brotherly, circularly, cleverly, disorderly, eagerly, elderly, entirely, extracellularly, fatherly, formerly, gingerly, grandfatherly, grandmotherly, improperly, irregularly, lawyerly, leisurely, linearly, miserly, motherly, neighborly, northerly, orderly, overly, particularly, peculiarly, popularly, properly, regularly, scholarly, similarly, singularly, soberly, somberly, southerly, spectacularly, tenderly, Weatherly.
3	-er l ē	bitterly, brotherly, circularly, cleverly, disorderly, eagerly, easterly, elderly, entirely, extracellularly, fatherly, formerly, gingerly, grandfatherly, grandmotherly, improperly, irregularly, lawyerly, leisurely, linearly, masterly, miserly, motherly, neighborly, northeasterly, northerly, northwesterly, orderly, overly, particularly, peculiarly, popularly, properly, quarterly, regularly, scholarly, similarly, singularly, soberly, somberly, southerly, spectacularly, tenderly, utterly, Weatherly, westerly.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: interplay.
	Words within the letters "a-e-i-l-n-p-r-t-y"
	-1 letter: interlap, interlay, penality, trapline, triplane.
	-2 letters: aplenty, inaptly, ineptly, inertly, inlayer, irately, latrine, painter, pantile, peartly, penalty, pertain, peytral, plainer, plaiter, planter, platier, plenary, praline, pteryla, ptyalin, ratline, reality, reliant, repaint, replant, retinal, riantly, tearily, trenail.
	-3 letters: aerily, aliner, alpine, antler, aplite, arpent, artily, elytra, enrapt, entail, entrap, larine, learnt, lenity, linear, linter, litany, lyrate, nailer, napery, nearly, neatly, nitery, painty, palier, palter, paltry, panier, pantie, pantry, parent, parity, parley, partly, patine, pearly, peltry, penial, pentyl, pertly, pineal, pinery, pineta, pintle, pirate, plaint, planer, planet, platen, plater, player, plenty, pliant, pterin, pyrite, rapine, raptly, ratine, ratlin, realty, renail, rental, replan, replay, retail, retain, retial, retina, ripely, tailer, tenail, tineal, trepan, trinal, triple, triply, typier.
	-4 letters: alert, alien, aline, alter, anile, antre, apery, apter, aptly, ariel, arpen, artel, atrip, early, elain, elint, entia, entry, inapt, inept, inert, inlay, inlet, inter, irate, laity, lapin, laten, later, layer, leant, leapt, learn, leary, lepta, liane, liner, liney, linty, liter, litre, lyart, niter, nitre, paint, paler, palet, panel, panty, parle, party, paten, pater, patin, patly, payer, pearl, peart, peaty, penal, peril, petal, pieta, piety, pilar, pilea, piney, pinta, plain, plait, plane, plant, plate, platy, pleat, plena, plier, plyer, prate, print, pyran, rainy, ratel, relay, relit, renal, repay, repin, reply, retia, riant, riley, ripen, riyal, taler, taper, tapir, teary, telia, tenia, tepal, terai, tiler, tinea, trail, train, trial, trine, tripe, typal, yearn, yenta.
	-5 letters: aery, airn, airt, airy, alit, anil, ante, anti, aper, aril, arty, aryl, ayin, earl, earn, elan, etna, eyra, ilea, inly, lain, lair, lane, lari, late, lati, lean, leap, lear, lent, lept, liar, lien, lier, line, lint, liny, lipa, lipe, lira, lire, lite, lyre, nail, nape, nary, neap, near, neat, nipa, nite, pail, pain, pair, pale, paly, pane, pant, pare, part, pate, paty, peal, pean, pear, peat, pein, pelt, pent, peri, pert, pial, pian, pier, pile, pily, pina, pine, pint, piny, pirn, pita, pity, plan, plat, play, plea, plie, prat, pray, prey, pyin, pyre, rail, rain, rale, rani, rant, rape, rapt, rate, real, reap, rein, rely, rent, rial, riel, rile, ripe, rite, tael, tail, tain, tale, tali, tape, tare, tarn, tarp, teal, tear, tela, tepa, tern, tier, tile, tine, tiny, tire, tirl, trap, tray, trey, trip, tyer, tyin, tyne, type, tyre, yare, yarn, yean, year, yelp, yeti, yipe.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-i-l-n-p-r-t-y"
	+1 letter: interplays.
	+2 letters: antileprosy, interplayed, perinatally, personality, platyrrhine.
	+3 letters: biparentally, discrepantly, entropically, impenetrably, inapparently, interplaying, peritoneally, platyrrhines, pregnability, prudentially, tripinnately.
	+4 letters: amitriptyline, centripetally, complimentary, deprecatingly, explanatorily, hyperinflated, hyperrational, hypersalinity, hypervigilant, impermanently, impersonality, importunately, intemperately, lycanthropies, operationally, parliamentary, penetrability, penetratingly, periodontally, precipitantly, predominantly, predominately, pyrotechnical, sempiternally, uniparentally, unpredictably.
	+5 letters: amitriptylines, contemporarily, depreciatingly, exasperatingly, experientially, experimentally, hyperemotional, hyperinflation, hyperventilate, impregnability, inseparability, interplanetary, interpupillary, isentropically, pertinaciously, phenylthiourea, polymerisation, polymerization, preferentially, presentability, presidentially, preventability, providentially, radiotelephony, supernormality.
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