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Impainted vs Imprinted - What's the difference?

impainted | imprinted |

As verbs the difference between impainted and imprinted

is that impainted is past tense of impaint while imprinted is past tense of imprint.

As an adjective imprinted is

stamped or impressed.

impainted

English

Verb

(head)
  • (impaint)

    • impaint

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To paint; to adorn with colours.
    • To impaint his cause. — Shakespeare.
    (Webster 1913)

    imprinted

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (imprint)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Stamped or impressed.
  • (genetics) Produced by or exhibiting imprinting; showing distinction by its origin from the paternal or maternal genome.
  • *1999 , (Matt Ridley), Genome , Harper Perennial 2004, p. 217:
  • *:The inference is that there is an imprinted' gene somewhere on the X chromosome, which is normally switched on only on the paternal copy and that this gene somehow enhances the development of social adjustment [...].