What is another word for etched?

Pronunciation: [ˈɛt͡ʃt] (IPA)

Etched is a word that means to engrave or carve a design or image into a surface. Some synonyms for etched include engraved, inscribed, incised, carved, scored, scratched, embossed, impressed, stamped and imprinted. Engraved refers to creating a design or lettering on a surface by carving or cutting a groove or line. Inscribed is another term that means to cut, scratch or write something onto a surface. Incised is a word that describes a design or image that is cut or carved into a material, like wood or stone. Carved can refer to cutting a design or sculpture from a material, whereas, scratched and scored describe etching through the surface of a material. Embossed, impressed, stamped and imprinted all involve adding a design or image onto a surface by pressing it in or onto the material.

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What are the opposite words for etched?

Etched is a term that is used to describe the process of carving or cutting into a hard surface to create a design, picture or pattern. Its antonyms are words that describe the opposite of etched. Smooth is an antonym of etched because it is the opposite of a rough or uneven surface. Polished is another antonym of etched because it is the opposite of an engraved or scratched surface. Finally, uncarved, unmarked, plain are also antonyms of etched. All of these words describe a surface that has not been engraved or cut into, which is the opposite of what etched means.

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Usage examples for Etched

A birch bluff miles away was etched in clean-cut tracery upon the horizon, but though the weary man kept his eyes sharply open he felt reasonably safe from observation, which it seemed desirable to avoid.
"A Prairie Courtship"
Harold Bindloss
Then for a second, or part of it, the figures of moving men and beasts became visible, etched hard and black against an overwhelming brightness, as a blaze of lightning smote the prairie.
"A Prairie Courtship"
Harold Bindloss
Thorne gazed toward the spot he indicated and saw two or three teams and wagons etched upon the horizon where a low rise ran up to meet the sky.
"A Prairie Courtship"
Harold Bindloss

Famous quotes with Etched

  • Australia and Canada were settled by adventurers, they had to break new ground. I think that is indelibly etched on our cultural spirit.
    Tom Cochrane
  • Our concept of governing is derived from our view of people. It is a concept deeply rooted in a set of beliefs firmly etched in the national conscience, of all of us.
    Barbara Jordan
  • The more deeply the path is etched, the more it is used, and the more it is used, the more deeply it etched.
    Jo Coudert
  • So think as if your every thought were to be etched in fire upon the sky for all and everything to see. For so, in truth, it is.
    Mikha'il Na'ima
  • The presence that thus rose so strangely beside the waters, is expressive of what in the ways of a thousand years men had come to desire. Hers is the head upon which all "the ends of the world are come," and the eyelids are a little weary. It is a beauty wrought out from within upon the flesh, the deposit, little cell by cell, of strange thoughts and fantastic reveries and exquisite passions. Set it for a moment beside one of those white Greek goddesses or beautiful women of antiquity, and how would they be troubled by this beauty, into which the soul with all its maladies has passed! All the thoughts and experience of the world have etched and moulded there, in that which they have of power to refine and make expressive the outward form, the animalism of Greece, the lust of Rome, the reverie of the middle age with its spiritual ambition and imaginative loves, the return of the Pagan world, the sins of the Borgias. She is older than the rocks among which she sits; like the vampire, she has been dead many times, and learned the secrets of the grave; and has been a diver in deep seas, and keeps their fallen day about her; and trafficked for strange webs with Eastern merchants: and, as Leda, was the mother of Helen of Troy, and, as Saint Anne, the mother of Mary; and all this has been to her but as the sound of lyres and flutes, and lives only in the delicacy with which it has moulded the changing lineaments, and tinged the eyelids and the hands. The fancy of a perpetual life, sweeping together ten thousand experiences, is an old one; and modern thought has conceived the idea of humanity as wrought upon by, and summing up in itself, all modes of thought and life. Certainly Lady Lisa might stand as the embodiment of the old fancy, the symbol of the modern idea.
    Walter Pater

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