The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 8 letter word ABSTRACT which also is the latest solution we found used in New York Times in 1961.
Designating some painting crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| ABSTRACT | 100 % | 8 |
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Designating some painting
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- abstract
- linear
- romanesque
- daub
- nocturne
- related
- animated
- general
- potted
- earless
- latus
- lifelong
Crossword Answer definitions
ABSTRACT noun- An abridgement or summary of a longer publication.
- Something that concentrates in itself the qualities of a larger item, or multiple items.
- An abstraction; an abstract term; that which is abstract.
- The theoretical way of looking at things; something that exists only in idealized form.
- An abstract work of art.
- A summary title of the key points detailing a tract of land, for ownership; abstract of title.
- To separate; to disengage.
- To remove; to take away; withdraw.
- To steal; to take away; to remove without permission.
- To summarize; to abridge; to epitomize.
- To conceptualize an ideal subgroup by means of the generalization of an attribute, as follows: by apprehending an attribute inherent to one individual, then separating that attribute and contemplating it by itself, then conceiving of that attribute as a general quality, then despecifying that conceived quality with respect to several or many individuals, and by then ideating a group composed of those individuals perceived to possess said quality.
- To extract by means of distillation.
- To consider abstractly; to contemplate separately or by itself; to consider theoretically; to look at as a general quality.
- To withdraw oneself; to retire.
- To draw off (interest or attention).
- To perform the process of abstraction.
- To create abstractions.
- To produce an abstraction, usually by refactoring existing code. Generally used with "out".
- Derived; extracted.
- Drawn away; removed from; apart from; separate.
- Not concrete: conceptual, ideal.
- Difficult to understand; abstruse; hard to conceptualize.
- Separately expressing a property or attribute of an object that is considered to be inherent to that object: attributive, ascriptive.
- Pertaining comprehensively to, or representing, a class or group of objects, as opposed to any specific object; considered apart from any application to a particular object: general, generic, nonspecific; representational.
- Absent-minded.
- Pertaining to the formal aspect of art, such as the lines, colors, shapes, and the relationships among them.
- Insufficiently factual.
- Apart from practice or reality; vague; theoretical; impersonal; not applied.
- (grammar) As a noun, denoting an intangible as opposed to an object, place, or person.
- Of a class in object-oriented programming, being a partial basis for subclasses rather than a complete template for objects.
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