Antonyms for pied

Grammar : Adj

Spell : pahyd

Phonetic Transcription : paɪd

Definition of pied

Origin : late 14c., as if it were the past participle of a verb form of Middle English noun pie "magpie" (see pie (n.2)), in reference to the bird's black and white plumage. Earliest use is in reference to the pyed freres, an order of friars who wore black and white. Also in pied piper (1845, in Browning's poem based on the German legend; used allusively by 1939).

As in mottled : adj speckled
As in multicolored : adj having various hues
As in spotted : adj speckled
As in streaked : adj having streaks
As in multicolor : adj having many colors
As in polychromatic : adj multicolor
As in polychrome : adj multicolor
As in polychromic : adj multicolor
As in polychromous : adj multicolor
As in varicolored : adj multicolor
As in versicolor : adj multicolor
As in versicolored : adj multicolor
As in dappled : adj mottled, freckled

Example sentences :

"It was a good hostel, that of the 'Pied Merlin,'" he remarked.
Extract from : « The White Company » by Arthur Conan Doyle

The music of the pied piper was still in his ears; twisting his brain.
Extract from : « Garrison's Finish » by W. B. M. Ferguson

He wanted to go out and get pied; but when I told him about his boy, he begun to cry.
Extract from : « The Best Short Stories of 1920 » by Various

We had told our two boatmen to pull us out to the Pied Witch!
Extract from : « Villa Rubein and Other Stories » by John Galsworthy

The Himalayan pied kingfisher (Ceryle lugubris) is a bird as large as a crow.
Extract from : « Birds of the Indian Hills » by Douglas Dewar

He is somewhat larger than a blackbird, and pied like a magpie.
Extract from : « My First Voyage to Southern Seas » by W.H.G. Kingston

So they had to come, the arrogant Americans; they had to swarm like rats to the pied piper.
Extract from : « Ghetto Comedies » by Israel Zangwill

He would have fiddled the children of Hamelin away from the Pied Piper.
Extract from : « The Belovd Vagabond » by William J. Locke

On its way to the standing-galley Tilbury's notice got pied.
Extract from : « The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories » by Mark Twain

Its pied plumage is very pretty, but its note is a melancholy one.
Extract from : « Expedition into Central Australia » by Charles Sturt

Synonyms for pied

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