Loud and resonant; reverberating; (also) that thrills or affects the emotions; mournful, plaintive-sounding.

Art. Characterized by stiff and formal outlines; lacking in softness or mellowness; frigidly precise.

Painting. Characterized by a lack of sinuosity. Obsolete.

transferred. in Painting. Without appearance of relief or projection. flat tint n. one of uniform depth or shade.

Of painting, drawing, etc.: lacking visual coherence or harmony.

With reference to a painting, drawing, etc.: characterized by or composed of distinct touches or light strokes.

Concerned with the definition of form or outline. rare.

Of a painting: Having the outlines too hard.

Art. Of a picture: overcharged with paint; in which the paint is obtrusive. Also applied to the painter of a picture, or its execution. Now rare.

Of work executed with the pen or brush: Composed of scratches, as opposed to bold, firm lines.

Not marked by idealism; having no ideal character or features, etc.

Experiencing a tingling sensation; of or characterized by tingling; (hyperbolically) exciting, thrilling; = tingly, adj.

Painting. That portrays the typical or general characteristics of objects. Cf. generalize, v. 6b. Obsolete. rare.

Like or resembling tin or that of tin; characteristic of tin; esp. of sounds; in Painting, hard, crude, metallic. Also applied dismissively to (a…

characteristic or reminiscent of a stereotypical Christmas card (often with connotations of triteness or sentimentality); = sense B.

Full of tints; having the tints too prominent or inharmoniously combined.

Superficial; lacking depth.

Of a view, picture, artistic style, aesthetic, etc.: resembling or reminiscent of the stereotypical decoration of a chocolate box; pretty in a…

= sense B.

Characteristic or reminiscent of a stereotypical Christmas card (often with connotations of triteness or sentimentality). Cf. chocolate box, adj.

figurative. In the slang of art criticism: Having a rich colouring suggestive of a moist surface.

Of a view, picture, artistic style, aesthetic, etc.: resembling or reminiscent of the stereotypical decoration of a candy box; pretty in a…

Painting. Thickly painted; loaded with paint.

In negative sense: (of a design, etc.) having much detail; excessively detailed or decorated; over-elaborate.

Of painting, etc.: characteristic of a pompier (sense B.); vulgarly neoclassical. Of an artist: working in such a style.

Resembling a poster; designed in the style of a poster.

spec. Of a painting or style of painting: characterized by qualities of colour, stroke, and texture rather than of contour or line. Also in…

Designating drawing and painting (esp. Australian Aboriginal art) in which internal as well as external parts of the subject are shown; of or…

Pertaining to, characterized by, or subject to illusions.

Art. Of, relating to, or designating a non-geometrical abstract style of painting associated with American Abstract Expressionism of the late 1940s…

Of a style of the visual arts; esp. applied to painting in which the forms are recognizably derived from objective sources without necessarily being…

a style of abstract painting which came to prominence in the 1960s, characterized by sharply defined geometric shapes and blocks of bright colour…