paintless

English

Etymology

From paint +‎ -less.

Adjective

paintless (not comparable)

1. Without paint: unpainted (of an object), not involving paint (of a finishing process), or whose paint has worn off (of an object).
   • 1950 April, R. A. H. Weight, “They Passed by My Window”, in Railway Magazine, pages 258-259:

     In 1919, demobilisation specials from Purfleet, Essex, to the North, usually made up of nondescript, almost paintless or grey stock which had seen long wartime service, chalked with slogans, were worked through by way of Bromley and the North London line […] .

   • 2000, Donald Hall, Here at Eagle Pond:

     Residences of a development named Hilltop Place mimic wooden farmhouses with barns attached, painted gray to look paintless but remain tidy.

Derived terms

• paintlessness

Anagrams

• panelists, pantiless, pentasils