What is another word for encrusted?

Pronunciation: [ɛnkɹˈʌstɪd] (IPA)

The word "encrusted" refers to something that is covered or coated with a hard substance, often making it difficult to remove. Some synonyms for "encrusted" include encased, coated, covered, embedded, and encrusted with. Another way to describe something that is encrusted is to say that it is caked with, crusted over, or hardened with a material. This word can be used to describe a variety of things, such as jewelry that is encrusted with diamonds or a vessel that is encrusted with barnacles. Whether describing something that is covered with diamonds or covered with grime, the word "encrusted" implies a layer of something that is difficult to remove or penetrate.

What are the hypernyms for Encrusted?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

What are the opposite words for encrusted?

The word "encrusted" describes something covered or coated with a layer of hard material or substances. Its antonyms would, therefore, be words that describe the opposite of being covered or layered. Some antonyms for "encrusted" could be "smooth," "bare," "uncoated," "uncovered," "unadorned," or "unmarked." Another set of antonyms could be "clean," "polished," "shining," "gleaming," or "sparkling," which describe surfaces that are not covered with any dirt or grime. Using these antonyms, we can describe something as being the opposite of encrusted, such as a clean and polished piece of marble or a smooth, bare skin.

What are the antonyms for Encrusted?

Usage examples for Encrusted

She gazed intently at a notice hanging on the gold-encrusted wall opposite, "...
"Night and Day"
Virginia Woolf
The cab was faded, the wheels encrusted with ancient mud, the horse old and wheezy, but the cabman, standing now thinner than ever against the sky, was, in spite of a tattered top hat, filled with that cheerful optimism that belongs to the Cornishman who sees an opportunity of "doing" a foreigner.
"Fortitude"
Hugh Walpole
The sea was black as ink, with diamonds sparkling in it here and there reflected from the encrusted sky; and there was the glitter and sparkle of jewels in Lady Teigne's bedchamber, as two white hands softly lifted them from the wrenched-open casket.
"The Master of the Ceremonies"
George Manville Fenn

Famous quotes with Encrusted

  • Yosemite Park is a place of rest, a refuge from the roar and dust and weary, nervous, wasting work of the lowlands, in which one gains the advantages of both solitude and society. Nowhere will you find more company of a soothing peace-be-still kind. Your animal fellow beings, so seldom regarded in civilization, and every rock-brow and mountain, stream, and lake, and every plant soon come to be regarded as brothers; even one learns to like the storms and clouds and tireless winds. This one noble park is big enough and rich enough for a whole life of study and aesthetic enjoyment. It is good for everybody, no matter how benumbed with care, encrusted with a mail of business habits like a tree with bark. None can escape its charms. Its natural beauty cleans and warms like a fire, and you will be willing to stay forever in one place like a tree.
    John Muir
  • That diamond encrusted goat's skull is the height of good taste!
    Russell Brand
  • 'Like a great big meaty stew,' Gallimard of the 32nd kept saying. In the sauce-coloured Nile blown corpses floated gently seaward, to be fished out with bent bayonets. There were good pickings here, since each Mameluke carried his gold about him. On the shore lay ornate pommels, daggers, pistols, all encrusted with pearl and jewels, worth a fucking fortune....he started to harpoon out a sogged and bloated dreaming Mameluke or Turk or whatever he was. 'Poor bugger's in paradise now, drinking sherbet, poor bugger.'
    Anthony Burgess
  • White is the wold, and ghostly The dank and leafless trees; And 'M's and 'N's are mostly Pronounced like 'B's and 'D's: 'Neath bleak sheds, ice-encrusted, The sheep stands, mute and stolid: And ducks find out, disgusted, That all the ponds are solid.
    Charles Stuart Calverley
  • The Tippoo himself led the defenders north of the breach. The Tippoo had cursed Gudin for blowing the mines too early and thus wasting its terrible destructive power, but now he tried to revive the defense by his personal example. He stood in the front rank of his soldiers while behind him a succession of aides loaded jewel-encrusted hunting rifles. One by one the rifles were given to the Tippoo who aimed and fired, aimed and fired, and redcoat after redcoat was struck down.
    Bernard Cornwell

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